Until 1997, I was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Trade to work in Beijing for about 14 months.

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The draft regulations on foreign listings are likely to take the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation another six months to complete, said Mr Xie.

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These included: the Ministry of Culture, the State Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry and IT, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

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Meanwhile, papers including the China Daily also report on the comment by Wang Shouwen, foreign trade head at the Ministry of Commerce, which warns that China's foreign trade " is facing a severe situation next year".

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Another of Sir Richard's recommendations was that the decision on export licences should not be left to a kind of "wrangling" between the Foreign Office, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Defence.

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Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.

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