The state of trade survey of 400 firms across the UK suggested a "bleak" outlook for 2013.
Lord Green was chairman of HSBC from 2006 until late 2010 and is now Minister of State for Trade and Investment.
Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has decided not to permit the proposed acquisition by Lloyds TSB Group plc (Lloyds TSB) of Abbey National plc (Abbey).
But despite their ties to the island state, trade between them and China has surged and some governments in the region are also hoping to tap large Chinese investments in the coming years.
The decision was taken by the then Secretary of State for Trade, John Biffen, on the grounds the two papers were not going concerns and could close if the takeover were delayed by an MMC investigation.
The decision was formally taken by the Secretary of State for Trade, John Biffen, on the grounds that the two papers were not going concerns and could close if the takeover were delayed by an MMC investigation.
One, Harriet Harman, was later sacked from her job as secretary of state for social security, and another, Margaret Beckett, was demoted from secretary of state for trade and industry to leader of the House of Commons.
The superior state engages the weaker state in trade, technology transfer, joint ventures, and other peacetime activities while oblivious to the subtle but powerful strategies being pursued against it by the weaker state or states, a few examples of which I described above.
Free trade is the natural state, the distribution of incomes we get from free trade is the natural state against which others have to be measured.
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These included: the Ministry of Culture, the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and IT, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
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The bulk of the task falls to state and municipal trade offices.
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Several departments emblematic of old-style central planning, such as coal and machine-building, have been subsumed under a new "super-ministry, " the State Economic and Trade Commission.
That leaves Mongolia's biggest bank, the state-owned Trade and Development Bank.
He was president of a state-registered trade union, the unlikely sounding Union of Nomadic Metalworking Gypsies, but this may have arisen simply because his clanspeople were metalworkers.
Last year Australia said it would not include investor-state arbitration in future trade agreements.
The major focuses include landmark locations such as the Empire State Building and World Trade Center site.
The wide geographic distribution of state exporters suggests that trade ties with India are beneficial to people throughout the country.
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Analysts say the recovery is being propped up by government spending and could be vulnerable if trade or state-driven investment weakens.
Like many small state banks, its shares trade below their book value, indicating distress.
Patricia Hewitt, now a minister of state at the Department of Trade and Industry, is tipped as a possible replacement.
The newspaper reviewed nearly 30, 000 consumer complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general involving the big credit bureaus.
But I would still rather argue, equally righteously, that what we should consider is the natural state before the introduction of trade restrictions as that default.
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He was also a minister of state at the Department of Trade and Industry during the 1990s and his various junior ministerial jobs covered tourism, Scotland, the environment, and consumer affairs.
Mr Kelly was asked by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to foster trade and investment links between the US and Northern Ireland and to assist the Executive in attracting greater business opportunities.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a trade group of state insurance regulators in the United States, is scheduled next month to consider a package of proposals that would make insurance professionals fiduciaries of their clients.
Post-Soviet Armenia has embraced trade, made legal reforms, privatized state-owned enterprises and slashed inflation to 2.9% since joining the World Trade Organization in 2003.
Foreign trade involved haggling with state planners in Russian, not closing deals in English.
Indeed, a large-scale national debate has begun over debt-related litigation, prompted by the Federal Trade Commission and certain state and local officials.
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Haley is the co-author of the book Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy and Trade Policy by Oxford University Press.
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