Other regions are experiencing intense competition in trade and natural resources, including oil and minerals, by firms from Europe, U.S., Japan, Korea and China.
Richard Corbett, adviser to Herman van Rompuy, the European Council president, says most policy "will remain for the 27: the single market, rules on consumer protection, competition, trade and other areas like environment or justice and home affairs".
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If single markets were not on offer, there was a sense that other economic jobs like competition, trade or digital technology were not necessarily worth more than the High Rep post (and would be harder to sell to the British press, when Mr Blair was ditched).
More, the competition that free trade inspires ensures that we are at our best.
They argue that only mature industries can handle the global competition of free trade with their competitive prices.
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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It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
Might this not change, given the lip service that so many governments pay to the notions of free trade and competition?
We've got to be in favor of competition and exports and trade.
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Those laws are meant to encourage competition and prevent unfair trade practices.
Mr Zielonka's model would work more smoothly if there were an outside guarantor of free trade and competition, especially if perceived to have divine authority.
While Mr Levitt wanders freely among sumo wrestlers, game-show contestants and other inhabitants of the outer fringes of economics, Mr Harford takes care of the home turf scarcity, competition, taxes and trade.
Tonight I ask all our trading partners, developed and developing alike, to join us in a new round of trade negotiations to expand trade and competition and strengthen the global economy--and to begin it in this next year.
"Other leading competition authorities, including the Korean Fair Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice and the Canadian Competition Bureau have investigated the same facts and concluded that LG Electronics should not be held liable for the conduct of LG Philips Displays, " said John Kwon, executive vice president of LG Electronics.
But competition from the railways damaged trade and the waterway gradually fell into disrepair.
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And it is to automation that most jobs go to die, not trade or international competition.
Allowing firms to use trademark law as a trade barrier limits competition, especially on price, damaging consumer interests.
Mr Rodriguez did succeed in opening up the economy to foreign competition, signing free-trade deals with Mexico and Canada.
When competition is restricted due to trade barriers, the only winners are the protected companies who make up the domestic industry.
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It is at least arguable that, historically, Europe owes more to trade plus jurisdictional competition than to jurisdictional integration in its own right.
They are also a major factor eroding the competitiveness of domestic industry, which will face increasing foreign competition under WTO and ASEAN trade liberalization commitments.
The competition creates more opportunities for trade to benefit the consumer.
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Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
Competition policy was already on the trade agenda in 1948, when the multilateral trading system was set up.
Trade is about greater competition, which weakens the power of vested interests.
The industry has complained loudly about new competition from the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and it's taken a huge hit from the rising cost of fuel.
Competition policies can spill over into trade in several ways.
In government, however, the only sure way to break that power up is by promoting competition, removing remaining barriers to trade and foreign investment, and stiffening antitrust laws and their enforcement.
In effect, part of domestic competition policy has been subsumed into world trade rules.
Some clients of the exchanges say their merger will reduce competition and threaten to raise prices on trade clearing.
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