This painting, like others of the era, records an easy trading partnership nurtured through diplomacy.

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Half the New Haven stockpile is held by Equiva Trading, a partnership that includes Shell, Texaco and Saudi Refining.

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Units of New Source Energy Partners fell, making the owner of developed and undeveloped oil and natural-gas properties in Oklahoma the latest master limited partnership to struggle at the outset of trading.

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London's derivatives exchange, LIFFE , announced a strategic partnership with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange , including the cross-trading of each exchange's products.

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Finally, active partners don't owe the 3.8% tax on their share of a partnership's business income, unless it's from trading financial instruments or commodities, says Monte Jackel, a tax expert in Silver Spring, Md.

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Congress must now call on the administration to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership, submit the agreement for approval in the Senate and engage with other trading partners on additional trade agreements that will create new markets for American businesses.

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Even as the U.S. is reaching to the east, we are also pursuing a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or T-TIP, to deepen ties with our largest and longest-standing trading partners in Europe.

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However, largely absent from the broader narrative is the Trans Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement currently being negotiated by the United States and 10 of its trading partners that will test either candidate as the next round of negotiations is set to take place in December.

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