Money has helped businesses grow more efficiently, markets expand more dynamically and nations trade more effectively.
The Iraqi oil ministry cancelled the contract after Lukoil refused to give in to pressure from Baghdad to start work on the field in breach of United Nations trade sanctions.
At the same time, to those who would reflexively oppose every trade agreement, they need to know that if America sits on the sidelines while other nations sign trade deals, we will lose the chance to create jobs on our shores.
Trade encourages nations to specialize in their "comparative advantage" and trade with other nations that specialize in theirs.
The United States and Mexico are nations that trade, dialogue, and complement each other economically and mutually.
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Briefing the meeting, the Executive Secretary of the Conference, Anna Kajumulo, said country-level preparatory processes had been launched in 46 least developed countries with country visits by members of the United Nations Conference Trade and Development (UNCTAD) secretariat.
Can you point to nations that have prospered with protectionism, particularly when compared to similar nations with free trade?
Research under way at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development suggests that the amount of the shift could itself be exaggerated.
EU, its share of foreign direct investment fell sharply in 2002, according to preliminary estimates from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
That is why the CBD is cooperating closely with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to foster such markets through its Biotrade Initiative.
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), foreign direct investment (FDI) was one of the main casualties of the global slowdown last year.
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.
The three-day event is hosted by UNESCO and co-organized with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
It also wins the Chinese new friends--and their votes it needs in international forums like the United Nations and World Trade Organization as it takes an ever larger role on the world stage.
"The developed countries must avoid a sterile triumphalism or a one-medicine-cures-all prescription, " Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting in Bangkok last week.
Romney's plan ties U.S. trade policy to development in foreign nations by identifying barriers to trade and investment in developing countries.
He has also said he would promote the role of U.S. charities and relief organizations in the region, maintain economic sanctions on Cuba, seek special negotiating authority to strike speedier trade deals with nations in the Western Hemisphere and establish a free-trade area for the Americas.
In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith considered free trade a great boon to the participating nations' economies, workers and consumers.
Patrick's Cathedral, the United Nations and the World Trade Center site were being especially monitored.
It is unacceptable for us to sit on the sidelines while other nations forge bonds of trade.
Of course, appeals to national security have always been the stock-in-trade of nations, no matter what military situations they encounter.
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Lowering barriers to trade among nations helps kick-start innovation by helping boost the investment required for new goods and services.
The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations, according to its Web site.
Well, we could, but my guess is precious few nations would want to trade their fiat money for our gold money.
Andean Nations signed the Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), which replaced the expired Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
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But as Congress demurs on the critical agreements, a host of progressive-minded governments continue pursuing free trade with nations important to their economies.
Collectively the nations have been pushing for free trade in the region -- by 2010 for developed nations and by 2020 for developing countries.
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Indeed, as Congress demurs on the four critical agreements, a host of progressive-minded governments continue pursuing free trade with nations important to their economic and overall geopolitical interests.
Doing that requires a consensus among the nations to cooperate with trade restrictions or to interdict illegal shipments, or to be able to carry out challenge inspections of what's going on.
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