And then on trade, does the President have a commitment from Democratic leaders in Congress to take up those trade agreements?

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At a recent trade show in America some unexpected guests showed up to take a look at it, surprising Marian Le Calvez, the communications manager at France based Geonaute.

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In some years, imports of oil have accounted for more than half of that deficit, so one way to take a hammer to the trade deficit would be to crank up domestic production.

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Even Yasin's father encouraged him to take up a job in the local municipality, rather than pursue the family's backbreaking trade, when he finished high school in 1975.

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The WTO trade ministers and other delegates had come to Seattle to draw up an agenda for a new round of global trade talks, which are scheduled to last about three years and take up issues like European farm subsidies--of huge importance to U.S. and Canadian agricultural exporters--and whether to tax sales on the Internet.

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