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Battling International Bribery: 1999 Report Released by the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, July 1999

The Department of State has prepared this first of six annual reports on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions as required by Paragraph (c)(1) of the Senate Resolution of Advice and Consent of July 31, 1998. This report is the result of close collaboration among a number of federal agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The Department of State report reflects the same key points and findings as those contained in the Department of Commerce's July 1999 report Addressing the Challenges of International Bribery and Fair Competiton. Information on Viewing This report appears on the U.S. Department of State website as: Battling International Bribery HTML Battling International Bribery PDF All files are linked and can be accessed by clicking on the Table of Contents. To view the files in PDF format, you either must have Adobe's Acrobat Reader installed, or you must download Acrobat Reader by going to Adobe's installation page at http://www.adobe.com/proindex/acrobat/readstep.html [end of document] Economic and Business Affairs| State Department Home Page This is an official U.S. Government source for information on the WWW. Inclusion of non-U.S. Government links does not imply endorsement of contents.