The region stands astride the primary corridor for the Midwest grain trade and sits in the middle of the Gulf trade routes.
Approaching gigabit Ethernet speeds, this 5th-generation WiFi-equipped notebook supports up to 900Mbps of wireless throughput -- though we certainly wouldn't expect to see such speeds smack in the middle of a tech trade show exhibition hall.
Clinton and Obama frequently address issues that hit home for unions -- wages, protection of the right to form unions, health insurance, cutting taxes for the middle class and reworking trade agreements that some union members blame for job loss.
Brewers are betting that Africa's fast-growing middle class will want to trade up.
However, the metals prices quickly rebounded to trade near the middle of their daily trading ranges for the remainder of the session.
"Clearly there are mutual interests in terms of large energy suppliers and consumers, but there will be stress points, of course, " said Ben Simpfendorfer, co-founder of Silk Road Associates, an investment advisory firm specializing on trade between the Middle East and Far East Asia.
One of the those Arab officials at the meeting, the Egyptian Finance Minister Medhat Hassanein, said afterwards in a BBC interview that a Middle East and US free trade area, even one including Israel, is a eventually a possibility, but only if there is first what he called a just peace in the region.
In the middle of April, 24 domestic trade associations advised member businesses to show price restraint.
Japan, which runs a trade surplus with the Middle Kingdom, exports its H beams.
The stakes are high for a country strategically positioned in Middle Eastern politics and in world trade through the Suez Canal.
In the following clip, Lamy talks about how the WTO is working to bring more African and Middle Eastern countries to the global trade table.
It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
Europeans in the Middle Ages also developed a taste for trade with China and the Indies.
Absolutely no one thinks there should be tariffs, trade barriers, down the middle of that town now, do they?
CSOB, its foreign-trade bank, by the middle of next year, and large chunks of Komercni and Sporitelna by mid-2000.
And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.
The club, named after Queen Victoria's German consort Prince Albert, was founded for Manchester's community of middle class Germans involved in the cotton trade.
We can measure how much the world is getting richer, how better lives are becoming, by measuring how much people trade with this one particular middle aged Englishman.
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.
Now, one NATO ally asks Turkey to grant access to its shores to deploy missile systems against a Middle Eastern neighbor, and thereby to trade in any hard-earned goodwill in the region and risk its own security.
You might argue, for instance, that in many countries rising incomes and structural economic change have created a new and larger middle class, weakening support for public services (which the middle class pays for) and undermining trade unions (which tend to be anti-liberal).
Pastor Gerald Taylor of the Texas Organizing Project, which is aimed at helping low- and middle-income families, would say the trade-off is rather one-sided.
Moreover, preferential trade agreements between Syria and other Middle Eastern countries closed to western imports provide Mr Samha's company, Amal Samha, with a wide and sheltered market.
The assumption, in the U.S. as well as China, is that Obama will try to govern from the middle and adopt pro-globalization positions on trade with the Chinese.
You could, of course, place a limit order somewhere in the middle of the spread and hope that your trade is met by a speculator on the other side.
Trade in relics arose in the Middle Ages, when Catholic pilgrims returned home from the Holy Land with tokens of the burial places of martyrs or of the martyrs themselves.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the company started out in the boring sugar trade, acting essentially as a middle man selling sugar from the source to the king of England.
He also promised a new "comprehensive" trade and investment partnership initiative with the Middle East and North Africa.
CNN: Obama announces 'new chapter' in U.S. Mideast diplomacy
Because these waterways were the arteries of trade, Bruges became rich during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Fourth, the United States will launch a comprehensive Trade and Investment Partnership Initiative in the Middle East and North Africa.
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