Members of the Export Promotion Cabinet shall develop a framework for promoting services trade, including the necessary policy and export promotion tools.
WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13534 - National Export Initiative
For the United States services trade is a huge untapped opportunity.
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America's goods-and-services trade deficit widened by a greater-than-expected 9% in October.
As the European Commission noted in a lack-of-progress report on services trade last July, an Austrian baker would have to apply for eight different licences to open a shop across the border in Italy.
In fact, we would appreciate trade more if we understood that countries do not trade goods and services, but trade is about the individual purchases we make every day.
The strategy, released Wednesday in a report that was the subject of a White House meeting, raised the prospect of stepped-up U.S. trade restrictions on products and services derived from stolen trade secrets.
The best hope now is that the European Union, the world's biggest trading block, seizes the baton of free trade from America something Sir Leon Brittan, the external-trade commissioner, boasts it has done already, for instance in last year's financial-services and telecoms trade deals.
The next challenge will be to assist trade in services, which is growing more quickly than trade in goods.
Rick Grant has been covering financial services for the trade press for more than 15 years.
Simona Novelli, operations director at Cox Exhibition Consultants Ltd, for services to International Trade.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the U.S. trade in goods and services report, and monthly wholesale trade.
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Freer competition might benefit brokers and investment banks, which compete with exchanges and post-trade services as well as use them.
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Moreover, as we move towards efficient markets for products and services, global trade is expected to grow in the coming years.
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Last year Shropshire Council set up a company to trade services such as legal, finance and IT support, primarily to other public bodies.
The new formula gives due importance to services and to trade.
He added that he would have plenty of time to vote, since on voting day he was trying to hawk his services at a trade fair for retirees, few of whom, he discovered, had teeth.
He found that a Canadian province in 1996 was 12 times more likely to trade merchandise and 40 times more likely to trade services with another Canadian province than with an American state of similar size and distance.
After all, they support passage of a federal FRAC Act but what you seldom hear from supporters of that federal act is that it, too, contains a provision to allow providers of fracturing services to protect trade secrets.
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And given the importance of maintaining American support for talks to liberalise trade in financial services, to expand the North American Free-Trade Agreement and to bring China into the World Trade Organisation, an upsurge of Japan-bashing and anti-import rhetoric in Washington would quickly affect the rest of the world.
Other U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the international trade in goods and services report, and the monthly wholesale trade report.
Indices for telecommunications, radio, television and satellite transmission services, hotel service, wholesale trade, e-commerce, software and IT services, and water transport all stayed at 60.
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It misses out trade's effects on productivity and the benefits of freer trade in services.
Members are yet to agree on trade in services, competition policy and public procurement.
Efforts to free up trade in services may bring more benefits than calls to boost manufacturing.
Trade in services still remains far too restricted, and not only in emerging economies.
Trade in services has been getting freer, although many countries' WTO commitments are still patchy.
Under the General Agreement on Trade in Services, the United States undertook certain obligations on H-1B and L-1 visas.
Such reforms are being promoted by the commission under its Lisbon agenda, including its much-abused directive to liberalise trade in services.
Exporters are thus more likely than importers to exceed the threshold for inclusion in the surveys used to track trade in services.
An accord was also reached with China on liberalising trade in services.
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