Some Western European officials complained privately that Washington still views East-West trade through a cold war prism and ignores the needs of emerging Eastern European democracies for modern technology.
As the Government, to allay unrest at home, turns toward the West to buy consumer goods, the potential for corruption escalates; Communist officials have become the middlemen in the burgeoning East-West trade.
All previous East-West trade agreement talks had been anything but diplomatic.
Thirty-five European nations, meeting in Vienna, agree to strengthen human rights and strengthen East-West trade.
In the 1960s Plummer became interested in promoting East-West trade.
Austria is the traditional crossroads for East-West trade.
No one's done more to open up East-West trade than Nicholas Guiderone.
Moves Follow Complaints The moves follow complaints from the business community that the United States is hurting itself economically with restrictions on East-West trade that are generally tougher than those of its allies.
For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames and Kufra, in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara desert.
As the Korean War eased, so the British became less and less sympathetic to the American desire to minimize East-West trade.
