I'll be traveling to Australia to celebrate the 60th year of the American-Australian alliance, and that will signify the security infrastructure that allows for the free flow of trade and commerce throughout the region.
Although the flow of trade and people between Arabia and Asia had lost its relevance over the past four centuries, the rise of China and the resulting rise in oil prices are quietly reinvigorating them.
The World Trade Organisation, which oversees the free flow of physical trade, might be a suitable body for keeping digital goods and services flowing too.
But this exceptional status as an unincorporated territory has also allowed for the free flow of both trade and people with the United States.
Dr Tomber said that it has always been presumed that the flow of the trade between Rome and India lasted between the 1st Century BC through to the end of the 1st Century AD, but that there is growing evidence that this trade continued much longer, into the 6th and early 7th Century - although not necessarily continually.
In December, international negotiators halfway around the world from each other debated provisions that would impact the free flow of information online and trade.
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We can only overcome negative trends by enhancing the volume of trade... enhancing the flow of capital.
But even with London benefits, which can be worth around 40% of a new constable's pay, the police trade union says the flow of roughly 40 London officers a month to other forces is several times the inflow.
The government is still corrupt and incompetent, but the absence of war has allowed trade to flow once more along Angola's potholed roads, and thousands of families divided for decades by the fighting tearfully to reunite, sometimes on what is now Angola's most popular reality-television show.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
We learn of gunboats bound for America that change direction to head toward Asia and of international trade being affected by the simultaneous disruption of the flow of cotton from the South and the flow of tea from China.
But as borders become more open, and the flow of information, technology, money, trade and people across the borders are larger and more rapid, the line between domestic and foreign policy continues to blur.
The fear of currency crises and the subsequent unemployment, bankruptcies and stalling of economic growth have made many developing countries' governments even more wary about the free flow of capital than they are about free trade in goods.
One aspect of our prolonged trade deficit that does seem problematic is that it reflects a flow of capital to a rich country from poorer countries, the reverse of the text-book model.
It lets clients generate trade flow communications with any bank capable of using the messages.
Many of the benefits of state welfare flow not to society as a whole but to entrenched interest groups in particular to trade unions and recipients of tax-funded benefits.
It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico that helps fuel the drug trade, senior administration officials said.
Mr. Chan predicted that the next phase of offshore yuan trade would involve "more balanced flow between the mainland and Hong Kong, " with Chinese currency moving in both directions as more Chinese exporters ask to accept yuan in payment for their goods from overseas buyers.
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The villains of the Depression were the trade-killing, international-capital-flow-strangling Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an overly tight monetary policy and a catastrophic tax increase.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, and similar trade deals between Mexico and Central America, have vastly increased the flow of goods and services between Mexico and its neighbours.
He said the plan was for the green space to "flow quite nicely" into the lake shore but that businesses were concerned about the potential loss of trade.
Subsidies, trade protections and other economic distortions accumulate, and resources increasingly flow to a specialised class of lawyers, bureaucrats and lobbyists who know how to work the system.
Amid the cash-flow problems, DCM's main lender, Canada-based Maple Trade Finance, has taken control of some of the company's assets, said Carole-Ann Miller, Maple Trade's president.
The California-based Internet giant says that barriers to the free flow of information over the Web restrict commerce and economic development, and should therefore be considered barriers to free trade as well.
Our trade deficit will shrink, our dollar will strengthen, and tens of billions of dollars will flow to the treasury.
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