It was the biggest contributor to inter-Korean trade and provided the North with much-needed hard currency.

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By contrast, the Yavlinsky plan envisages inter-republic trade being conducted in roubles, even after separate currencies emerge.

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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.

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According to the Inter-American Development Bank, China's trade barriers are generally in line with those of other developing countries and are gradually being lowered.

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The central bank also said it would peg its plunging currency at a level of 131 kroner to the euro, or a trade-weighted index of 175, in the inter-bank market.

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