Actrade International, New York City, helps companies export products via an overseas network of distributors, and buys domestic commercial trade acceptance drafts at a discount.

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It can build on acceptance into the World Trade Organization to share in global environmental, medical and legal conventions.

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We all have to figure out where our individual boundaries are in this regard and negotiate the trade-off between personal integrity and public acceptance.

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China's gradual re-entry into the global economy during the 1990s, and its recent acceptance as a member of the World Trade Organisation, mark the end of this phase.

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Most merchants should see a reduction in their costs for accepting debit cards as a result of the new caps, but small-ticket merchants are "shocked that, in their case, their costs are actually going to increase, " said Mark Horwedel, chief executive officer of Merchant Advisory Group, a trade group that represents large retailers on card-acceptance issues.

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The recently-formed Media Experience Trade Association (META) is hoping to "improve consumer acceptance of emerging formats" by slapping "META Seals" onto discs that clearly inform consumers of certain usability benchmarks and by "creating digital media standards" that would help the faltering iHD Advanced Navigation and BD-Java features blossom.

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Obama's acceptance of the panel's decision, therefore, would mark a change in American trade policy toward Beijing.

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