BEIJING'S `BLATENT PIRACY' COULD SLASH ITS U.S. TRADE.

Focuses on possible U.S. crackdown on China's trading practices, with special reference to Beijing, China's failure to deliver on promises to safeguard American software, movies and books. Charges made against China; Use of prisoners to manufacture products for export to the U.S. by China; Decline in merchandise imports of China; Possibility of citing China as an international trade pirate; Concerns of the U.S. about the trade deficit.