The EU, he claims, is hurting one of our most important industries - financial services - and, secure "within the warm embrace of the European single market", giving British businesses an excuse not to develop trade with the developing economies.

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It has started talking to Japan about a free-trade agreement, and diplomats say there is a chance that the limited trade-liberalisation pacts struck with America could develop into a full-blown free-trade deal.

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An unhappy Jobs called Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer after the software company, and Apple rival, snapped up Bungie Studios in June of 2000, Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft said in an interview with Develop, a videogame trade magazine .

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We are also committed to working together to develop high standard trade and investment rules in the region and promote regional economic integration, consistent with the long-term objective of the APEC economies to develop a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP).

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"Through fair trade, we have been able to develop our community with investments in our water supply, and ways to improve our living conditions, " he said.

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Last September, the New York brokerage Cantor Fitzgerald teamed up with the New York Cotton Exchange to develop an electronic exchange to trade American government-bond futures, striking at the core of the Board of Trade's franchise.

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