The international controversy over chicken, as serious as it could become, looks like a garden-variety trade dispute.
Sales stagnated because Lexus vehicles were aging, and a trade dispute with Japan was threatening the brand's existence.
The NASUWT has lodged a formal trade dispute with the government over workload, conditions of service, pensions and jobs.
One bi-product of any trade dispute with the United States will be that U.S. companies may face a slowdown in obtaining necessary approvals in China.
They are fighting a new kind of trade dispute about sensitive policy issues, such as food safety and environmental protection, that were once exclusively domestic.
Indeed, the influence of Vodafone AirTouch may be enough to resolve a rumbling trade dispute between America and Europe over setting the technical standards for third-generation mobile.
The trade dispute with China over auto parts gives a misleading impression: The U.S. is getting tough with China and finally making a difference to our economy.
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But now tequila itself has become the subject of a tetchy trade dispute one that looks as if it will not be settled over a couple of shorts.
On 2 February 2011, MEPs debated an agreement struck in Geneva in 2009 designed to end the 16-trade dispute with Latin America known as the "banana war".
For their part, Chinese firms have urged Beijing to respond to a threat of European anti-dumping restrictions, raising fears that the dispute may escalate into a trade dispute.
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The United States has little reason to negotiate since the WTO has assessed most of the fault in the trade dispute to lie on the other side of the Atlantic.
But sources say Unison could only join the action if it were part of a "legitimate trade dispute", and point out that it would need to notify more than 20, 000 employers.
Together these actions ensure there that the launch aid trade dispute will continue for some time, though if the U.S. is prepared to take forceful action, retaliation could be implemented within a year.
However, managing the unequal relationship with the superpower has lately become more complicated, aggravated not only by a perennial trade dispute over lumber but also by what may be an underlying estrangement in values and politics.
This first ruling is a potential thunderbolt that could ignite a damaging trade dispute between America and Europe at a time when both economies need to present a united front on trade, to prevent a slide towards protectionism.
This week, the Chinese government upped the ante in the Obama-China trade dispute by surprisingly imposing new tariffs on imports of Honda and Cadillac models, Chrysler Jeep Grand Cherokee, the BMW X5 and X3 and Mercedes Benz models made in Michigan, Alabama and South Carolina.
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Legal advice received by Unite suggests a general strike could be legal under human rights legislation if it were called as part of a political - rather than a trade - dispute.
In response, the US and Canadian governments imposed retaliatory trade barriers and took the dispute to the World Trade Organisation.
However, he said, for those involved in trade, the border dispute is insignificant.
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Although some U.S. complaints about Chinese trade and economic policies are legitimate and probably worth deploying the resources to resolve (including through dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization), other complaints are bogus because there is no violation of an agreement or because the United States is guilty of the same infractions.
In March it agreed to a ruling by Japan's fair trade commission to settle a dispute over anticompetitive sales practices. (Intel denies any unlawful conduct.) The European Union and the Korean Fair Trade Commission are now investigating Intel on similar charges.
Brazil won a dispute in the World Trade Organization over US cotton subsidies and wants to see them removed completely.
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Consider the difference between a traditional trade quarrel, such as a dispute over restrictions on steel imports, and the battle over hormone-treated beef.
But the dispute about farming and world trade is about more than grandstanding or the protection of a special interest.
The territorial dispute has affected both political and trade ties between the two neighbours.
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In the end, all this pent-up trade depends on settling the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute.
Rangel is also engaged in a dispute with U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Susan Schwab over the public availability of the agreement itself.
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