Where even if the profits in the foreign trade are higher than the domestic, people will still quite naturally prefer to invest in that domestic trade.
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Take Prato, a beautiful town in Tuscany that grew rich on foreign trade in textiles during the Middle Ages and has the churches and paintings to show for it.
Romney's plan ties U.S. trade policy to development in foreign nations by identifying barriers to trade and investment in developing countries.
This suggests that most of the trade in foreign exchange is directed to settle external trade balances, rather than for speculative reasons.
Considered alone, the increase in imports was 9.8%, making the net contribution of foreign trade in goods and services a negative 4.1%.
Also in the building were 14 Chinese-owned companies, the Foreign Trade Ministry in Beijing said.
Likewise, a surplus in U.S. foreign trade would sow the seeds of a reversal in the future.
So devalued is Zimbabwe's currency that the bank was forced to announce this week that it would allow some shops to trade in foreign exchange.
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MGI's latest research shows that the country must go further in lowering trade and foreign-investment barriers if it is to continue integrating itself into the global economy.
Clogged ports and airports and poor road and railways connections meant that the region's opening to foreign trade in the 1980s and 1990s brought less benefit than it should have done.
Its job should be to see to it that all of the relevant agencies have a fair and appropriate opportunity to participate in matters relating to foreign trade, technology transfer, financial transactions, etc.
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Given the extraordinary share of foreign trade in its overall economy (as high as up to 65 percent of its gross domestic product), China has become a champion of free trade and strong opponent to protectionism.
The treatment of foreign trade statistics in the GDP estimates is tricky, confusing, and may contribute to an unwarranted aversion to imports.
The annual income Great Britain derives from commissions in her whole foreign and colonial trade, import and export, is estimated by Sir R.
Until 1997, I was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Trade to work in Beijing for about 14 months.
The United States is seeking a more muscular response to the growing threat from foreign hackers interested in obtaining business trade secrets.
One reason why Chinese officials have not felt the need to devalue earlier is that foreign trade has remained in balance, or, better, in surplus.
Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution notes another reason for the outflows: a huge increase in trade credit extended to foreign (mainly South-East Asian) buyers of Chinese goods.
And yes, at Unilever's Mumbai headquarters on Monday morning, Mr Cameron urged Delhi to open its markets up to greater foreign trade, particularly in financial services like banking and insurance.
Part of each additional bond offering puts the company and the U.S. in the position of investing more than we save, drawing in foreign investment and contributing to the trade deficit.
"We have been very focused in calling for a breakthrough now, " says Mary Irace, vice president of trade and export finance for the National Foreign Trade Council, a pro-trade industry group in Washington.
Now, it appears that they want their leaders to focus on the basics: creating better-paying jobs, protecting the population, expanding trade, improving access to technology, developing infrastructure in rural areas, and improving relations with foreign countries and trade partners.
That would suggest the lack of a winter break doesn't just explain England's underachievement but also affects foreign players plying their trade in the Premier League.
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President Mikhail Gorbachev has no doubt been impressed by China's success in carrying out domestic economic liberalization and foreign trade reforms as well as establishing workable terms of agreement with the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) .
In early October, the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and the National Foreign Trade Council challenged the rule in court.
Economic liberalization, including industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced controls on foreign trade and investment, began in the early 1990s and has served to accelerate the country's growth, which has averaged more than 7% per year since 1997.
Speaking at the Paydirt Africa Down Under conference in Perth, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Dennis Richardson said the number of Australian mining firms listed on the stock exchange and operating in Africa had jumped from 54 in 2003 to more than 160 this year.
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