It just got harder to trade goods out of the Portland seaport on the West Coast.
Participants trade goods and services to each other in return for agreed LETS credits, which are recorded in a central exchange.
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Natives fingered the strangers' beards, patted flat the wrinkles on their garments (perhaps thinking the cloth was skin), and wondered at their trade goods.
Its judging panel was impressed by the delicious selection of organic, vegetarian, gluten-free and fair trade goods available, including stonebaked pizzas, locally brewed alcohol and homemade cakes.
In fact, we would appreciate trade more if we understood that countries do not trade goods and services, but trade is about the individual purchases we make every day.
Ian Bretman of the Fairtrade Foundation thinks there are other reasons too why British shoppers are buying into fair trade goods, such as historic trading links with Commonwealth countries.
Economic thinkers since at least the time of, well Copernicus, have understood that national well-being derived from private individuals going out into the private world to produce goods and trade goods, an activity that for centuries has created wealth for many nations.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the U.S. trade in goods and services report, and monthly wholesale trade.
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Other U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the international trade in goods and services report, and the monthly wholesale trade report.
That is often true of trade in goods, but it is sadly not always true of trade in assets.
GATT, which dealt with trade in goods, but also took on new agreements on services, investment, intellectual property, technical barriers to trade, sanitary measures and plant health.
Follow-on components of ECFA, including deals on trade in goods, services, and investment, have yet to be completed.
The next challenge will be to assist trade in services, which is growing more quickly than trade in goods.
In addition, the renminbi needs to be convertible for all transactions, not only for trade in goods and services.
In 2011, two way trade in goods and services between the U.S. and Mexico exceeded a staggering half trillion dollars.
These rules now recognise that free trade amounts to far more than the removal of barriers to trade in goods.
There is, he notes, legitimate trade where goods go from one part of China to another through Hong Kong.
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Free trade policies that promote trade in goods and services are also important to facilitate greater investment in global infrastructure projects.
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Considered alone, the increase in imports was 9.8%, making the net contribution of foreign trade in goods and services a negative 4.1%.
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Communities facing this problem have traditionally resorted to "scrip, " a money substitute in the form of tokens, certificates, even clamshells or buckskin to trade for goods.
As a result, the US-EU economic relations have become the most intense in the world (in terms of trade in goods as well as investment flows).
Mexico's stance reflects the openness of its economy, at least to trade in goods (many service businesses in the country are in the hands of cosseted cartels).
Even the Bank's new estimates say that fully free trade in goods could boost Africa's income by more than, say, this year's much-hailed deal on debt relief.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, import and export prices, international trade in goods and services, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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"If you have a registered trademark you can stop people using it in the course of trade for goods that are not yours or licensed or approved by you, " she said.
In point of fact, viewed in terms of trade in goods and services, these are the nations that bear most on the U.S.: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, the U.K. and Germany.
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Actually, the thing that is most often the focus is the "current account balance", which means trade in goods and services plus some financial items, including remittances that migrant workers send home.
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