World Business Briefing: American Trade Specialist Resigns
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Franklin L. Lavin, under secretary of commerce for international trade, who prodded China to reduce trade barriers by backing new tariffs on Chinese goods, announced his resignation yesterday. Mr. Lavin plans to leave on July 13, less than two years after taking the post. He is joining the Washington office of Cushman & Wakefield, the real estate services company. He led negotiations for the United States at the World Trade Organization over how to rework trade laws.
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The president of the Manila-based Asian Development Bank on Tuesday announced his resignation from the multilateral bank, effective next year.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - Talks between four of the world's big trade powers collapsed on Thursday, throwing the future of global WTO talks on free commerce into deeper crisis.
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GENEVA The former president of Costa Rica, JosÃ© MarÃ­a Figueres, has resigned as director-general of the World Economic Forum, amid allegations implicating him in a Costa Rican corruption scandal involving Alcatel of France, the Forum said Friday.
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Jeffrey W. Greenberg resigned Monday as chairman and chief executive of Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos. Inc. insurance brokerage, the company said, in a move that appeared aimed at positioning
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Â·  Chief negotiator resigns after rift on strategyÂ·   Doubts surround future of foreign minister
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R. Nicholas Burns, long one of the most high-profile diplomats at the State Department, is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Burns, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Friday.
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Terminal operations at six American seaports were sold today, closing a controversial chapter in American policy.
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Jeff Greenberg leaves post at No. 1 insurance broker not long after Spitzer targeted firm: WSJ. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Marsh &amp; McLennan&#39;s embattled Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Greenberg stepped down as
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David Li, the Hong Kong banker and lawmaker who is paying $8.1 million to settle an insider-trading case involving Dow Jones, resigned from his city council post.
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The setbacks included the resignation of a top official and an announcement that talks on a critical trade dispute had failed to resolve differences.
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Facing stiff competition from China and the European Union, the United States is rapidly losing economic clout in Asia, with its export share dropping in most of 34 countries surveyed in the region, the US commerce secretary said Thursday.
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TheÂ bribery scandals at SiemensÂ have forced the resignation of a former senior executive who left the company nearly two years ago to head the IT services subsidiary of German telecommunications operator Deutsche Telekom.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Theodore Forstmann, a pioneer in the  leveraged buyout frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, plans to leave  the business in 2006, the New York Times said on Sunday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Trade negotiators may be near a breakthrough, said U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab. The Bush administration is hoping, after over 6 years of fractious talks, to overcome divisions over tariffs, subsidies and other trade rules, and produce a new global pact before Pres. Bush leaves office. Rich nations want lower tariffs on industrial goods and services; poor nations want farm subsidies and tariffs scrapped.
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The World Trade Organization imposed penalties yesterday on exports ranging from apples to textiles, escalating a trade dispute the Bush administration has tried to defuse by unsuccessfully urging Congress to repeal legislation aimed at protecting US steel makers.
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The country is split over a possible permanent trade deal with the US.