| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : APRIL 26, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Rough Road to the WTO Whom Zhu still must convince in China THE COUNTRYSIDE An influx of American wheat, other grains, and fruit could worsen the plight of hundreds of millions of inefficient farmers THE STATE INDUSTRIES Already plagued with overcapacity and plunging prices, industries from cars to chemicals dread foreign competition THE MINISTRIES Powerful bureaucracies like the Information Industry Ministry, which controls telecom, are determined to keep their monopolies THE BANKS Shaky state banks say competition with foreign financial firms for customers and funds could push them over the edge DATA: BUSINESS WEEK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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