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At the time, I was Senior Policy Adviser for the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and Labor – a position that made me the top congressional staff member responsible for upholding labor standards in international
trade
treaties.
Weisel claimed not to understand, so I explained: A majority of congressional Democrats supported the principle that the United States should sign
trade
agreements only with countries that are democracies.
For example,
trade
agreements negotiated by members of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly the British Commonwealth) contain just such a provision.
That is why
trade
unionists were the first through the gates of Dachau, and why Poland’s Solidarity movement posed an existential threat to Communist power throughout the former Soviet bloc.
The Trump administration would also have to refrain from pursuing protectionist
trade
measures that would disrupt the “spaghetti bowl” of cross-border value chains for both producers and consumers.
Employment continues to decline in the manufacturing sector and traditional service industries, such as wholesale and retail trade, accommodation, and food service.
UN member states have acknowledged migration’s many benefits, including its role in stabilizing global labor markets, spreading knowledge and ideas, creating diasporas that spur increased
trade
and investment, and sustaining economies worldwide through remittances, which pay for family members’ health care, education, and housing back home.
However, outside of CITES, limited guidance is available to ensure that legal
trade
is sustainable and beneficial to the poor.
Sustainable
trade
often depends on poor and rural communities conserving their own resources at the local level.
To see what that looks like, the International
Trade
Center (ITC) recently examined how people in Southeast Asia sustainably manage the CITES-listed python
trade.
Python skins are commonly used as raw material in the luxury fashion industry, and ITC surveys of python-skin harvesters, farmers, processors, and exporters in Vietnam and Malaysia found that the
trade
reinforces livelihood resilience by providing an additional source of income.
In Vietnam, an estimated 1,000 households farm and
trade
pythons, and python harvesting in Malaysia provides incomes for low-skilled, low-income workers during periods when other employment opportunities are either out of season, or simply scarce because of larger economic factors.
The biggest threats to the legal wildlife
trade
are poaching, smuggling, improper
trade
permitting, and animal abuse, all of which must be addressed by regulators and rural community stakeholders at the local level.
In the right circumstances, a virtuous cycle, whereby local producers have a direct interest in protecting wildlife (because they are benefiting from its legal trade) is the best – and sometimes the only – long-term solution to the problem of sustainability.
The poor international environment hit Brazil’s economy mainly via foreign trade, aggressive competition in the Brazilian market, and echoes of the negative expectations prevailing in advanced countries.
Bilateral economic, trade, and currency disagreements may not be as bitter as they are between the US and China, but they are thorny, and lack of resolution is making them more intractable.
Although
trade
is an effective lubricant of good relations, these sorts of talks are for the “sherpas,” not Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to handle.
Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into the hands of terrorists, insurgents, and criminals, and the multi-billion-dollar opium
trade
is at the heart of the country’s malaise.
Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug
trade.
The heroin
trade
would not be booming if Western governments were serious about combating drug consumption.
Improving security and the rule of law must include destroying the opium
trade.
So the Internet and free
trade
should make the ideas and devices that we call “technology” available everywhere.
Such governments promote schooling, free trade, property rights, social programs, and the Internet, and yet their countries’ economies remain stuck.
That year, India began to dismantle state planning, allow for open international trade, and encourage competition among private industry.
Since then, India's international
trade
has grown rapidly and overall economic growth has picked up.
When China’s labor-intensive industries emerge from their metamorphosis, we should expect to see firms that are larger, that invest more in product innovation and design, and that hold more sway over business and
trade
policies.
Three or four billion people are still offline, and the Internet’s economic value for many who are connected is compromised by
trade
barriers, censorship, laws requiring local storage of data, and other rules that limit the free flow of goods, services, and ideas.
This means ending Israel’s blockade – which has served only to fuel more extremism and war – and granting Gazans control over their own seaport for
trade
and travel.
Gove was on hand for Trump’s public announcement that the United States would move “very quickly” to reach a post-Brexit
trade
deal with the United Kingdom.
Not surprisingly, the UK’s Brexiteers are now touting a hypothetical
trade
deal with the US as a way to fill Britain’s post-EU
trade
vacuum.
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