The departure of Venezuela for MERCOSUR marked the demise of a major trade partner.
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Too bad an ongoing conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the primarily Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh has turned off a big trade partner, Turkey.
If trade policies are deemed to hurt a tradig partner, a trade war can erupt, in which countries ratchet up protectionist policies in a tit-for-tat manner, ultimately leading to economic slowdown.
Last week former EU Commission President Jacques Delors said he could envisage the UK having a looser relationship with the EU, with a new free trade agreement, or as a "privileged partner".
Only after a country has adopted a policy on, say, salmon fishing or labelling may a trading partner bring a complaint that the policy inhibits trade.
Mr Zuma is expected to sign a series of trade agreements with his country's largest trading partner.
Because this time Argentina would see not only a monetary squeeze, but a currency undercut by that of its main (and Mercosur) trade partner.
Though Kazakhstan takes part in a customs union with Russia and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security pact that includes both Russia and China, its largest trade partner is the European Union.
In 2002 the U.S. granted the country favored status as a trading partner, as a reward for cracking down on the illegal drug trade.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
On its own, Singapore has just concluded a free-trade agreement with New Zealand and now has Australia (New Zealand's existing bilateral partner) and India in its sights.
Joint administrator Kerry Bailey, a partner in PKF's corporate recovery team, said J U Bowen had ceased to trade and made all its 30 staff redundant before administrators were appointed.
"Bowman Gilfillan had identified him as a superstar, " recalls McGuire partner George Martin, who accompanied Motsepe and Virginia's then governor Douglas Wilder on a trade mission to South Africa the following year.
When traveling early in the relationship, she suggests a few key questions to ask yourself: Does your partner want to do the same things you do or trade off your choices with his choices?
The going annualized interest rate paid by those who borrowed shares in the social networking company was anywhere from 10% to 40% on the amount borrowed on Friday, compared with 0.25% to 0.5% for the typical big-company stock, according to Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, a New York firm that advises hedge funds on counterparty risk and financing of trade.
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