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By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers.
But now, with commerce and recreation dominating coastlines worldwide, the “let it be” approach of the past is no longer practical.
As a Pacific power, the US has an abiding national interest in a just international order that emphasizes states’ rights and responsibilities and their fidelity to the rule of law; open access for all to the global commons of sea, air, space, and cyberspace; unimpeded economic development and commerce; and resolving conflict without the use of force.
Four-star generals also fill top ministerial positions, from commerce and transport to labor and education.
Online commerce is offsetting some of the other weaker areas of the economy, and its full impact might actually be underreported in official statistics.
To force Libya to hand over the plotters, compensate victims’ families, and cease terrorism, the Council froze all air commerce in an out of the country, all aircraft maintenance, and all arms shipments, as well as reducing diplomatic representation.
The SCO promotes free trade, too, and aims to build essential infrastructure such as roads and railways to link its members and boost commerce between them while also harmonizing customs systems and tariffs.
We assumed that family ties and non-directedness would preclude coercion and commerce.
By that time, we had already become aware that interests in organ commerce were constantly intensifying, and that those in need of organs or money were increasingly likely to turn to the black market or seek a legal loophole that would allow them to conceal the commercial transaction behind some legitimate gesture.
The same law indeed forbids commerce in organs, but offers living donors reimbursement of expenses that contains fixed-sum elements.
The eurozone aspires to full economic integration, which entails the elimination of transaction costs that impede cross-border commerce and finance.
True, commerce ministry officials recently declared their wish to see a further fall of China’s trade surplus in 2010.
With world tariffs declining for decades, today’s negotiations focus mostly on the rules that govern international commerce.
If trade agreements in the twenty-first century are about setting rules that raise the standards of international commerce, it does little good to establish those rules one treaty at a time.
Clinton pushed for, and achieved, a period of tax holidays on electronic commerce.
For example, speaking recently in New Delhi, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the key to stabilizing Afghanistan is to build a “new silk road” connecting it with central Asia – a cynical contrivance apparently aimed at cloaking America’s failure in illusions of future commerce.
In less than a generation, Dubai has transformed itself into a major center for investment, commerce, and high-end culture.
In India, where government is more often considered a drag on commerce than a catalyst of growth, the decisions that move local markets are now more likely to come from bureaucrats in Delhi than from innovators in Mumbai.
Second, the state’s administration of justice adopted and encouraged non-violent ways of resolving grievances, thus allowing cooperation and the expansion of commerce.
Finally, women must be better represented in networks such as chambers of commerce, thereby giving them influence over key decisions affecting their communities.
But, in pursuing such harmonization, Europeans should recognize that their Asia strategy – which has so far focused on commerce and, to a lesser degree, on the rule of law and human rights – will have to take on a security dimension.
In Western Europe, Japan, and the United States, places where individuality lost its novelty long ago and where the managerial spirit and mass commerce flourish, this sameness may be something to debate.
As Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, regularly points out, this could be the first time in history that a trade negotiation results in additional barriers to commerce.
During his country’s accession negotiations with the World Trade Organization in December 2001, a former Chinese commerce minister (who is now in prison for corruption) used to tell me and other negotiators that, “If you respect us by an inch, we’ll respect you by a mile.”
For example, an article in The Times of London in 1970 argued that rising home prices reflected the switch to a new British Standard Time (imposed as a three-year experiment in 1968 to facilitate commerce with Western Europe by putting Britain in the same time zone).
NEW YORK – Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid.
“Upon the whole it rests with Congress to decide between war, tribute, and ransom as the means of re-establishing our Mediterranean commerce,” Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson advised President George Washington in 1790, as he pondered a response to continued attacks by the Barbary Pirates on America’s merchant fleet off of North Africa.
In the United States, Western Europe, and Asia, Internet platforms, especially Facebook, enable the powerful to inflict harm on the powerless in politics, foreign policy, and commerce.
The Digital Divide Is Impeding DevelopmentGENEVA – It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce.
Trump’s senior economic-policy advisers, Peter Navarro and Wilbur Ross (Trump's pick for commerce secretary), argued in a position paper in September that these estimates are flawed, because they don’t take into account “growth-inducing windfalls” from regulatory and energy reforms, or the added bonanza that should arise from a sharp narrowing of America’s trade deficit.
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