It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
Guillermo Moreno, the thuggish secretary for internal trade who has persecuted independent economists for their inflation estimates, has been put in overall charge of foreign trade too.
Then, at the request of China's Minister of Internal Trade (their Department of Commerce), he established the AIG-China Retail Fund.
World Bank data shows that Brazil, the country with the strongest internal market in Latin America, is also the least trade-dependent economy in UNASUR.
These trade barriers raise the internal price of milk and butter, which is the whole point of having them so as to encourage people to farm in such a frozen wasteland.
The central pillar of the policy was import substitution, the belief that India needed to rely on internal markets for development, not international trade - a belief generated by a mixture of socialism and the experience of colonial exploitation.
Asia, which has trouble enough trying to open up internal trade and economic cooperation generally, repeats the protectionist folly at its peril.
's internal 129-page report on the "London whale" trade is troubling.
The EU has had a fully functioning internal market for most areas of trade since 1992.
In the U.S., on the other hand, internal factors also point to a move away from free trade policies.
The last few, including one last year, are believed to have been fueled by an internal power struggle over which wing of the military would control the drug trade.
We also had internal free trade, as explained in this excellent short video on the benefits of free trade, narrated by Don Boudreaux of George Mason University and produced by the Institute for Humane Studies.
Adding an internal CD drive to the V5 would significantly increase the size, but I think the trade-off would be worthwhile.
This combination of scepticism about trade without any great enthusiasm for class warfare is awkward for the party's internal politics.
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But in the advanced economies, where internal markets are big enough to be fairly competitive, barriers to flows of trade, capital and knowledge have long been lower, and technology is at its cutting edge, there is less to be gained.
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