Hemispheric trade zone stumbles
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President Bush spent the weekend in Chile, the only South American nation with a free-trade pact with the US.
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WASHINGTON -- America's trade deficit posted a dramatic decline in October, falling to the lowest level in 14 months as the price of crude oil plunged by a record amount.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - Talks between trade powers to salvage world trade talks collapsed on Thursday, throwing the future of the World Trade Organisation's round into doubt.
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Businesses are starting to sour on Asia and turning to Latin America and the U.S. for IT services.
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Â· Markets braced for falls after Wall Street slump  Â· Period of slower growth sparks fears of trade war
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A growing number of economists argue that the U.S. is caught in a gradual deterioration brought on by the yawning deficit in trade and other international transactions.
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The region's booming growth has counterbalanced trouble elsewhere. But the long dry spell is taking a toll.
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PARIS, Sep 25 (IPS) - While its economic landscape is brightening, Africa  is still bedeviled by some of the same obstacles that has  historically served to undermine economic development in the  resource and labour-rich region. And many of those woes could be  solved through development of further intraregional trade.
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WORLD TRADE:As area companies reap the benefits of China&#39;s raging economy, its central bank carefully steps on the brakes. BY PETER S. GOODMAN.
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Talks on global warming in the United States next week may be complicated by differences among developing countries as their climate policy positions diverge.
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After years of deterioration, the United States trade deficit appears to have finally peaked and started to decline.
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Shipments go up, prices go down...with more of the same on the horizon.
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Officials call on international community to open crossing points for trade.
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About 1,900 miles east of Moscow  and sitting on a frozen swamp the size of France, the city of  Tomsk has struggled economically since the Trans-Siberian  Railway passed it by at the end of the 19th Century.
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The US trade deficit fell to 50.15 billion dollars in July, 4.87 billion dollars down from the previous month, as imports declined for the first time in almost ayear, the US Commerce Department reported Friday.
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Move comes amid increasing impatience at failure to achieve progress in power-sharing talks with government
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LONDON, Oct 4 (IPS) - The decision announced by the European Union to    pursue bilateral trade deals in the absence of a comprehensive  world   trade agreement can mean disaster for poor countries.