This program will be the successor to the so-called Structural Impediments Initiative undertaken during the Bush Administration.

The forum is a bilateral discussion called the "Structural Impediments Initiative."

The so-called Structural Impediments Initiative was a series of talks designed to deal with domestic structural problems limiting trade on both sides.

Look at the Structural Impediments Initiative, the central dialogue between the two countries on removing barriers to trade and investment.

The current talks - known formally as the Structural Impediments Initiative - are far different from anything the two countries have attempted before.

That comment was made not last week but in 1990, when Washington and Tokyo concluded something called the Structural Impediments Initiative.

The Structural Impediments Initiative should be abandoned forthwith.

But the Structural Impediments Initiative, which was started by the two Governments last July, is a two-way affair.

This effort, bureaucratically dubbed the Structural Impediments Initiative, is aimed at getting the Japanese to change the very nature of the way they do business.

After a series of trade talks known as the Structural Impediments Initiative, Japan agreed, among other things, to apply its antitrust laws more rigorously.