The Quadripartite Committee - comprising members of the defence, foreign affairs, international development and trade and industry select committees - is demanding the same powers of prior scrutiny afforded to their counterparts in the US and Sweden.

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Then there is a debate on a European Union Committee report on Sovereign Credit Ratings - peers will ponder the findings of their the their Economic and Financial Affairs and International Trade EU Sub-Committee recently published report on those mysterious but all-powerful bodies, the credit ratings agencies.

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Ironically in castigating the administration in general and in particular one of its senior officials, Undersecretary of State Robert Kimmitt, on this score Miss McGrory has improperly helped blur the record of two others who are culpable for that fiasco: former undersecretary of commerce Dennis Kloske and Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on international economic policy and trade.

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But according to Frank Vargo, vice president for international economic affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers, the signal on trade deals has to come from the president.

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But more and more Chinese firms are trying to build their WTO or foreign trade practices, said Judy Wang, an international trade lawyer at Troutman Sanders and a former member of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center's training program.

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He promised to enhance Japan's role in international affairs, build its cooperation with other democracies and promote open use of the seas and rules-based trade.

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