Three years ago, at the twelfth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in Accra, I launched the Chief Executives Board inter-agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity.
UNCTAD, an agency dealing with trade and development, knew of 290 in 2007.
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Google has failed in its latest attempt to convince a US trade agency that Apple has infringed its intellectual property.
Director-General Pascal Lamy announced that, contrary to the original 9.5% stat released by the agency, international trade is going to be up 13.5% this year.
Last July Singapore's national trade agency held a high-profile conference in Singapore that brought investors together with government officials and prospective partners from 17 African countries.
Apple Inc. won a victory against Google Inc. in a patent case before a U.S. trade agency, which upheld findings by one of the agency's judges.
Meanwhile, rival chipmaker Broadcom got a piece of Qualcomm last June, when the U.S. government trade agency banned imports of phones powered by Qualcomm chips last June as part of a patent dispute between the companies--an order that was blunted by a federal judge in September.
Meanwhile, rival chipmaker Broadcom (nasdaq: BRCM - news - people ) got a piece of Qualcomm last June, when the U.S. government trade agency banned imports of phones powered by Qualcomm chips last June as part of a patent dispute between the companies--an order that was blunted by a federal judge in September.
The idea for its commercial, however, may not be one cooked up by E-Trade ad agency Grey Group.
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The dead include 343 firefighters, 23 New York police officers and 37 officers for the Port Authority, the transportation agency that owned the Trade Center complex -- the twin towers and five smaller buildings.
The SBDC program in California, for example, resides under the Trade and Commerce Agency, in Sacramento.
The International Trade Commission and Trade and Development Agency aid American exporters and domestic firms facing foreign competition.
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Of those, only four were playing in their first year with the club after being acquired via trade or free agency.
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We looked forward to further progress on the ASEAN-U.S. Connectivity Cooperation Initiative, supported by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), including engaging U.S. private sector resources to help ASEAN implement the MPAC.
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But really, there's more to this than meets the eye: according to a chart compiled by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, the total number of mobile phones sold domestically between 2002 and 2004 declined steadily.
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She's the head of the Federal Trade Commission, the government agency charged with combatting identity theft.
C. in January to start a one-year appointment at the Federal Trade Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting consumer privacy.
Battlefield signal intercepts in time of war are the stock-in-trade of the National Security Agency and, indeed, of military intelligence more generally.
The Labour Relations Agency said it had invited management and trade unions to meet with its officials in Belfast, and that both sides have accepted.
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"We draw the line at agency reference to or reliance on Genentech trade secret and confidential commercial data and information to approve a competitor's product, " the petition states.
She ruled that the state oil and gas supervisor in charge of the commission as a state agency acted reasonably in evaluating requests for trade secret exemptions under the fracking disclosure rule.
This is not just the biggest and most intractable trade row to come before the agency.
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Float4 Interactive ( www.float4.com), an agency from Quebec, was showing on the trade show floor how they can turn any large screen into a multi-touch interactive system.
President Obama, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Security Agency and several other government agencies have all stressed the importance of software updates and their critical impact on the cybersecurity of consumer, business and government computer systems.
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United Nation's children's agency Unicef, which estimates that this pernicious trade affects more than one million children worldwide, says great pressure is also put on boys and girls to stop them running away or testifying against their captors.
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Meanwhile, the Congolese authorities are seeking an embargo on the trade in minerals from Rwanda, Reuters news agency reports.
Working with Omnicom agency BBDO, New York, Motorola Solutions will tap trade- and b2b-focused print, online and direct marketing to get its message out.
"It is the world's first offshore experiment producing gas from methane hydrate, " an official from the economy, trade and industry ministry told the AFP news agency.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), an independent agency responsible for safeguarding the interests of consumers, in October 1998 wrote to the UCITA drafting committee expressing concerns and giving recommendations for changes.
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