Congress insists that every issue be addressed before extending normal trade.

During his recent Latin American trip, President Clinton enthusiastically promised to extend free trade throughout the hemisphere.

We are told every year that if we'll just extend normal trade for one more year, that jobs in this country will not be adversely affected.

She was an ambitious and competent leader, extending Egyptian trade south into present-day Somalia and north into the Mediterranean.

Its plan to extend free trade across the hemisphere has languished for months, though the Senate now appears poised to grant the president trade promotion authority.

But Democrats and Republicans in Congress said they doubted that Congress would be willing to extend trade negotiating authority past June 30.

Last November, when American unions pressured Congress to shelve legislation to extend free trade to other nations, labor was often branded as protectionist.

In their earliest examples, as seals, coins and medals, they were directly connected with extending trade and with extending political empire.

Its foundation lies in the ambitions of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to extend France's maritime power and international trade in the 17th century.

It is not enough for the WTO to be given the main objective of extending trade.