The sign-and-trade agreement was necessary for the Lakers to afford him.
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They swung a sign-and-trade deal over the weekend with the Blazers to re-acquire former Knick point guard Raymond Felton (they'd already signed 39-year-old free agent Jason Kidd).
On Wednesday night, the Lakers and Suns reached a sign-and-trade deal, with Los Angeles using the trade exception it got when it sent Lamar Odom to Dallas to facilitate the transaction.
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He added that the Democrats would be less likely than the Republicans to sign free-trade pacts with Malaysia and South Korea, and this might encourage increased trading among Pacific nations, particularly with China.
Subsequently, at the June summit meeting in Washington and in the face of relentless pressure from Gorbachev Mr. Bush decided to sign the U.S.-Soviet Trade Agreement and nine accompanying side letters even though the Soviet Parliament had yet to schedule final action on the emigration legislation.
Meanwhile, in a sign that the pro-free trade forces were gaining ground, House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a new trade pact which would allow African, Caribbean and Central American countries to gain greater duty-free access to US markets.
EAC, he suggested, should build a free-trade area, co-operate on finance, and sign a security pact.
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It has redoubled efforts to sign trade and investment deals to diversify Canadian exports away from slow-growth markets, where 85% of them are now directed, and towards racy Asian economies.
Taiwan and Beijing have restored direct flights and increased tourism, and Mr Ma is also expected to sign a landmark - though controversial - bilateral free trade agreement with Beijing later this month.
Successive presidents or their officials have visited China, accompanied by business delegations eager to sell more to the one-billion-plus Chinese, and have tried to persuade the Chinese to sign contracts and make trade concessions.
Some officials even muse privately about nuclear contacts with India, despite the global rules that ban nuclear help for and trade with countries that, like India and Pakistan, refuse to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or else reject full international safeguards on their nuclear industry.
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