Not surprisingly he came out of the starting gate in the role saying that resuscitating the Doha Round of free trade talks is priority number one.
Yet until now, with the exception of narcotics, illicit trade has simply not been a priority in international law and treaty making, or in international police work and cooperative law enforcement.
The ICTSD conference highlighted several of the priority issues which need further serious consideration in trade negotiations.
With the Democrats' union constituencies skeptical of free trade, and the public so hostile, the Obama administration hasn't made fostering free trade or changing Americans minds about it as high a priority as President Bill Clinton did.
Kenny told reporters after the meeting that he had updated Obama on behalf of the European Union about efforts to reach a free trade deal with the U.S., a priority that Obama raised in his State of the Union address this year.
The Clinton administration's priority before then is to see through the normalisation of trade relations with China.
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After the House passed cap and trade, he did little to make passage in the Senate a priority.
Giovanni Bisignani, the director- general of IATA, the airline industry's trade body, said that securing the supply chain was the first priority in ensuring that cargo was safe to carry.
And I emphasized my priority of having Congress repeal Jackson-Vanik, provide permanent trade relations status to Russia so that American businesses can take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities now that Russia is a member of the WTO.
The Federal Trade Commission this week told app developers that target children that they will be the first priority for upcoming enforcement activity.
We both agreed to enhance, increase cooperation in various fields with the specific agenda and specific priority that we wish to enhance -- that is in the area of trade and investment, in the area of education, energy, in the area of climate change and the environment, in the area of security and democracy and also civil society.
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In 1997-1998, Vietnam turned inward and gave priority to the mobilization of domestic capital to make up for the loss of East Asian trade and investment.
Speaking in George Square, Mr Smith said the priority should be fair taxation and a living wage, investment in quality jobs, strong trade unions and employment rights.
Translation: Japan should give priority to and focus first on the talks being promoted by Beijing to create a regional Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which would closely bind China, Japan, and Korea.
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