Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke led the first cabinet-level trade mission to Indonesia May 25-26, promoting U.S. exports in a broad range of clean energy technologies.
The day before, in the first round of polls for party posts, his favorite cabinet member, Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz, lost the UMNO Women's Wing leadership to Anwar-backed Deputy Health Minister Siti Zaharah Sulaiman.
He stood again for the leadership in 1997 and then joined William Hague's shadow cabinet, initially shadowing trade and industry and later opposing John Prescott.
But his lieutenants, and a rival rebel chief, Johnny Paul Koroma, are disgruntled about the relatively junior cabinet posts trade for one, tourism for another that they have been palmed off with.
Mr Singh has liberal views on trade, and his cabinet shuffle notably got rid of the commerce minister, who was widely blamed for scuppering trade talks under the Doha round in Geneva last July.
The Export Promotion Cabinet shall coordinate with the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), established by Executive Order 12870 of September 30, 1993.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13534 - National Export Initiative
Bush had openly discussed eliminating the trade representative from the Cabinet.
Members of the Export Promotion Cabinet shall develop a framework for promoting services trade, including the necessary policy and export promotion tools.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13534 - National Export Initiative
Following his second cabinet resignation, Peter Mandelson became Europe's trade commissioner, before returning to British politics in 2008.
It is alarmed that the United States Trade Representative, who handles trade negotiations, might be stripped of cabinet rank and subordinated to the Commerce Department a bastion of protectionism.
He is said to have bristled at having a deputy role in the agency after having served in a Cabinet-level post as the U.S. trade representative.
But, with 30 years international experience at HSBC, of late at very senior levels, and a member of the parent company board since 2008, it is not credible that Stuart Gulliver can escape blame, though the previous CEO Lord Green, currently the Trade Minister in an increasingly scandal-ridden Conservative cabinet, is yet more culpable.
But with low commodity prices and a projected trade deficit (to say nothing of Mr Yeltsin's unorthodox cabinet reshuffles), the government could be as poor this year as it was last.
The United States Trade Representative, in consultation with other members of the Export Promotion Cabinet, shall take steps to improve market access overseas for our manufacturers, farmers, and service providers by actively opening new markets, reducing significant trade barriers, and robustly enforcing our trade agreements.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13534 - National Export Initiative
But by the time it was completed in 1598, the Guadalquivir River had begun to silt up, causing all New World trade to move to Cadiz and the building became a rather opulent filing cabinet instead.
As a former boss of the World Trade Organisation he was a figure of international standing who added weight and respectability to the Italian cabinet.
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