By late in the afternoon, House and Senate negotiators had agreed to drop provisions in the Senate bill that would have eased barriers to interstate banking.

This focused specifically on easing barriers to entry and exit, not on abolishing regulations designed for safety or environmental reasons.

Japan is also under pressure to ease barriers on other fronts.

The Bush Administration responded by easing American regulatory barriers.

For example, Nafta eased regulatory barriers for the financial services industry, prompting companies like Bankers Trust, an Akin, Gump client, to open an investment banking office in Mexico recently.

Yeltsin Pledges Privatization Days before a trip to Washington, Russia's leader pledged to ease barriers to privatization.

But the study group was also determined to ease regulatory barriers that make it difficult for new biotechnology companies to market their products and compete with foreign companies.

Easing barriers to smuggling, the Administration argues, would result in even more drugs flooding into the United States.

Separately, in proposed legislation known as Healthy Forests, now before Congress, the administration has pressed to ease barriers to logging as a method of fire prevention.

(PL) Madam President, Commissioner, we are easing barriers to the movement of carriages and locomotives in the European rail network.