Follow-on components of ECFA, including deals on trade in goods, services, and investment, have yet to be completed.
The next challenge will be to assist trade in services, which is growing more quickly than trade in goods.
In addition, the renminbi needs to be convertible for all transactions, not only for trade in goods and services.
That is often true of trade in goods, but it is sadly not always true of trade in assets.
In 2011, two way trade in goods and services between the U.S. and Mexico exceeded a staggering half trillion dollars.
These rules now recognise that free trade amounts to far more than the removal of barriers to trade in goods.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes the U.S. trade in goods and services report, and monthly wholesale trade.
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Free trade policies that promote trade in goods and services are also important to facilitate greater investment in global infrastructure projects.
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Considered alone, the increase in imports was 9.8%, making the net contribution of foreign trade in goods and services a negative 4.1%.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, international trade in goods and services, and consumer credit data.
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Other U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the international trade in goods and services report, and the monthly wholesale trade report.
As a result, the US-EU economic relations have become the most intense in the world (in terms of trade in goods as well as investment flows).
Mexico's stance reflects the openness of its economy, at least to trade in goods (many service businesses in the country are in the hands of cosseted cartels).
Even the Bank's new estimates say that fully free trade in goods could boost Africa's income by more than, say, this year's much-hailed deal on debt relief.
GATT, which dealt with trade in goods, but also took on new agreements on services, investment, intellectual property, technical barriers to trade, sanitary measures and plant health.
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In point of fact, viewed in terms of trade in goods and services, these are the nations that bear most on the U.S.: Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, the U.K. and Germany.
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U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes import and export price indexes, the weekly jobless claims report, the trade in goods and services report and the monthly Treasury budget statement.
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Actually, the thing that is most often the focus is the "current account balance", which means trade in goods and services plus some financial items, including remittances that migrant workers send home.
The fear of currency crises and the subsequent unemployment, bankruptcies and stalling of economic growth have made many developing countries' governments even more wary about the free flow of capital than they are about free trade in goods.
More broadly, in the United States, for example, the dollar made artificially expensive by capital inflows related in part to its reserve currency status has prevented the exchange rate adjustment needed to balance our trade in goods and services.
Just as reducing the constraints on trade in goods made the world richer in the second half of the 20th century, so reducing the constraints on the movement of people could be a powerfully enriching force in the first half of the 21st.
Second, by endorsing a rise in the Chinese currency relative to the dollar, the president and those who support this policy put at risk the vast soft power and competitive advantage the U.S. enjoys by providing Asia and the rest of the world a reliable currency for engaging in trade in goods and financial instruments.
Measures to encourage smaller companies to export more have been unveiled by Business Secretary Vince Cable, as figures showed a widening in the UK's trade deficit in goods and services.
The new agreement between America and Europe should boost transatlantic trade in electrical goods, but the deal also gives American and European products an edge in each other's markets over goods from other countries.
The Doha trade talks were supposed to be finished by now, culminating in an ambitious agreement to free trade in farm goods and services.
But compared with the total annual trade in illicit goods, the heist was small change.
Instead of straightforward cross-border exchanges, the vehicle for trade in both goods and services can be foreign direct investment.
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