Citi recognizes that corporate clients will continue to demand multi-banking trade platforms.
Yet the only way the TPP can be a successful multi-lateral trade agreement is if stringent and enforceable intellectual property safeguards are put in place to ensure a level playing field among all partners.
FORBES: Trans Pacific Partnership: an Economic, Political Opportunity for Obama
Second, it should promote a multi-lateral free trade zone in Asia.
The U.S., for years burdened with a multi-billion-dollar trade deficit, had no problem because of the power of the dollar.
In this environment the prudent investment strategy is to raise cash on additional market strength even as the major averages trade to new multi-year highs and all time highs.
Hiring intentions in education, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail trade are also at multi-year lows when adjusted for seasonal factors.
The rush to Bangladesh began in earnest in 2005, when an international trade quota system called the Multi Fiber Arrangement expired, lifting the strict limit on the amount of textiles and garments developing countries could export to developed countries.
Its sales may be enjoying a multi-year boost as emerging market smokers trade up from cheaper local competitors to premium Western cigarettes, but worldwide demand for their products is shrinking, and fast.
However, a fearsome title alone won't clinch a multi-million dollar sale, so military trade events like air shows give weapons manufacturers a chance to show off their products -- even if the hard sell has been done over months and years of networking and negotiations.
Poland and Hungary are now seeking access to a number of U.S. trade and financial privileges, including: permanent or multi-year most-favored-nation status, tariff benefits under the generalized system of preferences, eligibility for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs and large-scale debt relief.
The internet may have been very quick to rest on its laurels after the successful opposition to SOPA. First there was the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, a highly restrictive, multi-national law that looked a lot like SOPA and covered everything from music downloads to crops.
FORBES: The TPP is the Next Battleground in the War Over the Internet
Recall that the Smoot-Hawley trade restrictions of 1930 turned a stock market panic into a multi-year Great Depression, broken only by World War II.
Float4 Interactive ( www.float4.com), an agency from Quebec, was showing on the trade show floor how they can turn any large screen into a multi-touch interactive system.
At least one other firm plans to announce high-definition, multi-user video chat for mobile devices at Mobile World Congress, the big telecom trade show, this week.
FORBES: Tablets Get High Definition 'Telepresence' Mobile Chat
The trade mission also offered the chance for some informal lobbying over Bombardier's loss of a multi-million Department for Transport contract to build new carriages for the UK's Thameslink.
应用推荐