This took months, but late last night the White House and Democrats finally agreed on new trade policy guidelines.
Three weeks ago, my administration and Congress agreed on a new trade policy that will be applied to free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
Instead of deregulating at home, he will seek to persuade the plenipotentiaries of India, Indonesia and Japan and South Korea to accept our new, muscular trade export policy.
The Vatican also hosted talks between U.S. and Cuban delegations in October, where details of Gross' release and aspects of the new U.S. trade policy were hashed out.
They are fighting a new kind of trade dispute about sensitive policy issues, such as food safety and environmental protection, that were once exclusively domestic.
The commerce ministry could unveil these new steps when it announces its foreign trade policy for the year, which Mr. Rao said is expected by the end of March.
The UIS report presents new data to examine some of the key policy trade-offs For example, where should governments invest more -- in primary, secondary or tertiary level?
Reflecting the mild, modernist Islamism of the Justice and Development party, known by its Turkish initials AK, which has ruled Turkey since 2002, the new policy seeks to use the soft power of trade, along with historical links, to project stability beyond Turkey's frontiers.
Yet, a lot of the real trade was due to presidential elections and what the new policy mix will be.
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Importing apparel and footwear from China is not new news in the U.S., it reflects trade policy and has been going on for decades.
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And they may pioneer new ideas which can later be taken up multilaterally: the Australia-New Zealand free-trade agreement, for example, deals with competition policy, which the World Trade Organisation has not yet touched.
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Legislators hope this new policy will help the Bush administration's push for free trade, an effort that's been complicated by the U.S. rising trade deficit.
There the risk would be of a nasty reaction in trade policy, especially if cheaper Asian imports coincide with a new period of insecurity among American workers.
Both parties gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash.
Similarly, perhaps the biggest new foreign policy initiative Obama called for was opening of talks to achieve a trans-Atlantic trade agreement.
Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank, said India had bet its growing trade ties with China could mute political disputes a hope that isn't playing out.
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Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank, said India had bet its growing trade ties with China could mute political disputes a hope that is not playing out.
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It would be best to broaden the new round to areas such as industrial tariffs, investment and competition policy, to allow more scope for the trade-offs on which a final deal depends.
Mr. Obama's emphasis on pursuing new pacts comes as he makes his way through an export-dependent region that has grown nervous about his trade policy, and skeptical about his willingness to use political capital at home to support free trade.
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