Advocates of free trade have become increasingly worried about what they see as growing protectionist pressures.

I think that protectionist pressure in Congress has been declining for the last two years and will continue to decline.

Congress designed the attack last year under protectionist pressure for even more damaging measures, aimed primarily at Japan.

But he is also under protectionist pressure from friends in the steel industry, among others, and he is looking for ways to accommodate them.

A. The big danger is the trade balance fails to show improvement and, in the short run, protectionist pressures get out of hand.

But make no mistake about it: protectionist pressures still run high in Washington.

The new figures are likely to intensify protectionist pressures on Capitol Hill.

Mr. Bush and his team have often urged other nations to resist protectionist pressures.

Such defiance is discouraging when protectionist pressures are growing in many countries.

All too clear is that the narrow nationalism of right-wing parties reinforces protectionist pressures.