CLINTON LIFTS BROOMCORN SAFEGUARD; MEXICO WILL DROP RETALIATION

President Clinton last week moved to end of a long-standing North American Free Trade Agreement dispute by announcing on Dec. 3 that the U.S. will remove earlier than scheduled a U.S. safeguard measure taken to protect U.S. producers from imports of Mexican broomcorn brooms. As a result of the move, Mexico, the primary supplier of broomcorn broom imports to the U.S., was expected to drop in the near future a series of tariffs it raised in retaliation, according to a...