Previously, trade collaboration with the West had been limited to sales of goods and services either for cash or through barter agreements.

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The beans were small and easy to carry, so they were often used to balance out or make change in barter agreements.

By contrast, Germany was increasingly willing to get into barter agreements with the countries of south east Europe.

The three Bombers are here to arrange a barter agreement for their leader, Lobo.

Moreover, barter agreements are a very inefficient method of trading, and their continuation would have depressed Yugoslavia's economic performance even further.

Another 1,000 buses went to the Soviet Union through barter agreements that Ikarus arranged itself.

Several other Eastern European countries have similar barter agreements with the republics of the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Burwick, of Pepsi, said the arrangement was "essentially a barter agreement."

The deal includes a $110 million barter agreement that will involve cement, wool, glass, aluminum, ammonia nitrate, rice, cotton and clothes.

France also confirmed that a $405 million barter agreement that was signed with the Soviet Union last year will now apply to Russia.

As outlined in the 1934 barter agreement, China would provide raw materials in return for German expertise and equipment in setting up these ventures.

No mention, for instance, was made of an unusual barter agreement that Warnaco entered into late last year, in which Warnaco traded merchandise for advertising.

Mr. Faldini of the industrial federation said companies would work out barter agreements case by case with workers and unions, perhaps offering only partial payment in goods.

Both also illustrate the growing skepticism of investors and possibly regulators toward once-common practices at AOL and other Internet companies, including advertising barter agreements.

Under the barter agreement, Romania will receive the equipment, which includes 200 dump trucks, in the next nine months, according to a Caterpillar spokesman, Jeff Hawkinson.

Mitzie Lau, a senior associate at Corcoran, knows of several successful bartering agreements between landlords and tenants, mainly those in the beauty and bodywork fields.

For "Sports Snapshot," that time is a generous 5 minutes and 30 seconds, compared with the more standard 3 minutes and 30 seconds in other barter agreements.

It has limited deposits of fossil fuels and most of natural gas imports come from Uzbekistan, with which Kyrgyzstan has had a series of imperfect barter agreements.

He made a barter agreement with Prinair, the local commuter airline, as to bring acts to the city that would not otherwise be shown there, in exchange for advertising the airline.

Mr. Davies speculated that the Government, either directly or through an intermediary, had decided to use the coins as part of a barter agreement with an oil-rich Middle Eastern country.

But investors have become increasingly skeptical about the deals now that it is clear that many of its barter agreements temporarily increased its revenue and that new ones are not likely soon.

The handover of Harmony completed a major element of the barter agreement, between ESA and NASA, that was signed in Turin on October 8, 1997.

A small but effective bartering agreement with some nearby survivors filled in the gaps, the Sandlakes usually trading either steaks or one of the doctor's many gadgets in return for clothing and firewood.