Likewise, domestic pressure has caused Obama to neglect trade issues.

The drug trade exemplifies the far reaching impact of domestic instability.

However, the rapid expansion in domestic demand resulted in remarkable trade deficits.

Many basic industries and foreign trade, as well as domestic wholesale trade, had been nationalized before the communists took power.

This was intensified even further by limited intraregional trade and small domestic markets.

Indeed, America s trade deficit in manufactures is roughly equal to its current account deficit (the amount by which domestic investment exceeds domestic saving).

Indeed, protectionism can do nothing to reduce America's trade deficit and stanch domestic unemployment.

The validity of trade in sustainable forest products, both domestic and international, must be recognized.

It helps to finance other countries trade deficits and domestic investment (many of its beneficiaries have large budget deficits that decrease national saving below domestic investment).

The Great Depression was aggravated by the trade barriers that countries imposed to protect domestic employment.

12 Green Box designates those domestic support measures that have no or minimal trade distorting effect.

Likewise, domestic pressure has caused Obama to neglect trade issues. The US is largely responsible for the failure of the Doha Round of global trade talks.

Zone 3 The area where main crops are grown, both for domestic use and for trade purposes.

Although domestic capabilities matter, a number of factors affect intra industry trade patterns in the developing world.

Other domestic policies such as those on trade, agriculture, environment, research could make substantial contributions to development.

Driven largely by collapsing domestic demand and production levels, but also by a shortage of affordable trade finance, trade volumes will fall by more than 10 this year.

While trade deals have often come at the expense of stronger domestic climate action, the EU s new trade agreement with Singapore aims to boost trade and investment in clean energy technologies and promote green public tendering.

Developing countries' main challenge is how to strengthen domestic supply capacity and reconcile trade, development, social and equity considerations.

In 2004, the illegal trade was equivalent to an estimated 60 per cent of the country's gross domestic product.

The same proposed policies for closing global trade imbalances also, by and large, help address each country s domestic economic concerns.

The Shanghai free trade zone s final objective is to help China exploit fully the demand potential of its domestic market.

11 De minimis support designates minimum permissible trade distorting domestic support not exceeding 5 per cent of total agricultural production.

The council is formed to protect women entrepreneurs' interests in domestic and international trade relations and to assist them in trade and investment promotion and technology transfer in Vietnam and abroad.

And lagging household income clearly contributes to China s trade surplus, because low domestic consumption tends to keep exports higher than imports.

Mercantilists, however, view trade as a means of supporting domestic production and employment, and prefer to spur exports rather than imports.

Enhanced domestic policy measures and institutional change have been facilitated by the recovery of international trade and higher primary commodity prices.

Through this bill, the Government is seeking to limit domestic arms trade and prevent the transfer of arms to third States.

9 Amber Box refers to trade distorting domestic support subject to annual capping as expressed as the Aggregate Measurement of Support.

If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.

With respect to successful domestic policies, ECE noted at the session that liberalizing domestic prices and markets as well as foreign trade is important so as to avoid distortions in the allocation of financial resources.

America s overall trade deficit will not disappear without an increase in domestic savings and a more fundamental change in global monetary arrangements.

Moreover, an intrinsic and often neglected problem is how to divide management of aid and trade schemes among international and domestic institutions.

In domestic trade, the embargo has increased costs by 66.8 million, mostly as a result of using middlemen for shipping and purchases.

Faced with weak demand in advanced countries, Asian economies are working to rebalance their sources of growth by shifting toward domestic and regional markets. As a result, growth in intra regional trade has outpaced overall trade growth, with intra Asian trade now accounting for more than half of the continent s total trade turnover.

There is a real risk that a price for passing a domestic cap and trade bill will be potential trade sanctions on big emerging country emitters that refuse to accept mandatory limits of some kind.

With domestic aggregate demand in short supply, the only functioning growth engine, external trade in goods and services, is not an employment engine.

In all these cases, and a few others also mostly in Asia domestic reforms would surely have produced growth regardless of international trade.

Low cost domestic energy could help to lower the trade deficit, spur investment, and decrease America s economic exposure to volatile oil exporting countries.

This would cause a shift from exports to production for the domestic market, thereby shrinking the trade surplus, in addition to curbing inflation.

These measures also contribute to more efficient use of ODA, which can in turn further leverage foreign direct investment, trade and domestic resources.

Distributive trade is an important activity that provides employment to a significant segment of the population and contributes greatly to gross domestic product.

To that end, there should be a rapid move to eliminate export and trade distorting domestic subsidies, particularly in the area of agriculture.

The world's leaders embraced good governance, domestic ownership of development strategies, trade and private investment as key elements of economic growth and prosperity.

On trade, we look forward to an ambitious outcome across all aspects of the Doha Development Agenda, including in agriculture, improved market access, the elimination of export subsidies and substantial reductions in trade distorting domestic support.

Kan undoubtedly hopes that success in convincing trade partners to lift their bans on such products will boost his exceptionally weak domestic political support.