It remains the world's largest trading block.

它仍然是世界上最大的贸易集团。

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It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world's largest trading block.

欧盟依然是世界上最大的贸易区。

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Though it would make sense to merge the SEC with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates derivatives, Congress's powerful agriculture committee would probably block the move.

尽管将SEC和商品期货交易委员会合并在监管衍生品上确实有意义，但是在国会权势巨大的农业特别委员会可能会阻碍这样的变革。

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Paraguay is less of a smugglers' Shangri-la now that it is a member of Mercosur, a trading block that includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

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Abroad, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Comecon, a trading block melded from the Soviet Union, seven European satellites, Mongolia, Cuba and eventually Vietnam, functioned only with massive Soviet subsidy and in worthless soft currencies.

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The best hope now is that the European Union, the world's biggest trading block, seizes the baton of free trade from America something Sir Leon Brittan, the external-trade commissioner, boasts it has done already, for instance in last year's financial-services and telecoms trade deals.

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