The free flow of goods and services results in huge economic benefits for both sides.
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It also means finding new ways to improve the free flow of goods and people.
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The free flow of goods and a common currency are one thing, but if companies have to deal with 15 different takeover codes when making cross-border acquisitions, a true single market is still an illusion.
They were engaged in a lucrative border trade in gems, logs and products such as shrimp, in the process swelling the bank accounts of local commanders whose compliance was required for the free flow of military hardware and commercial goods.
They also describe specific initiatives with timelines for implementation that promote transparency, efficiency, and the free and secure flow of people and goods.
His version of globalisation included the free flow of people and ideas, not just goods and services.
EU's single market, which embodies the Rome treaty's principles of a free flow of goods, services, labour and capital.
"How we open up borders for the free flow of people, or workers, as well as goods - that is being discussed as well as infrastructure, " he said.
The fear of currency crises and the subsequent unemployment, bankruptcies and stalling of economic growth have made many developing countries' governments even more wary about the free flow of capital than they are about free trade in goods.
The North American Free Trade Agreement, and similar trade deals between Mexico and Central America, have vastly increased the flow of goods and services between Mexico and its neighbours.
The World Trade Organisation, which oversees the free flow of physical trade, might be a suitable body for keeping digital goods and services flowing too.
Such concerns were also behind the stalling earlier this year of a directive that was supposed to open markets for services to the same free flow enjoyed in markets for goods.
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