The volume of trade over just that one bridge is greater than the trade between the United States and Great Britain.

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Businesses in a Worcestershire town are hoping a lottery-based loyalty scheme will help their trade while their river bridge is closed.

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One-quarter of the trade between the two countries passes over the bridge each year, but since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, new U.S. rules and inspections have made bilateral trade more difficult.

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If the Ospreys did manage to entice Haskell to the Liberty Stadium it would be a rarity, with very few current England internationals having chosen to ply their trade on the other side of the Severn Bridge.

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After discussing business models that effectively bring about change in international trade, we determined that we needed a mechanism that could bridge the gaps in business between the US and Africa.

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Also arriving were tenants like the trade-development office of Changzhou, a Chinese city that uses Pudong "like a bridge" to engage foreign investors, says its director Thomas Zhang.

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"I believe we've got to find the right combination of incentives and initiatives to bridge this divide, " Clinton said Tuesday in a speech at COMDEX, a major trade show for computer and electronics products in Chicago.

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