The US Treasury had warned financial institutions around the world to be wary of the risks of doing business with Foreign Trade Bank.

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The United States is seeking a more muscular response to the growing threat from foreign hackers interested in obtaining business trade secrets.

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If they refused to pay, the vultures would sue anyone who dealt with that country - effectively shutting down all of a nation's foreign trade and putting them out of business unless they paid up.

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They worked with the National Foreign Trade Council, the U.S.-Japan Business Council, and the Japan-U.S. Business Council, and got support from members of the U.S. Congress.

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The Bank of China's suspension of business further complicates the ability of the Foreign Trade Bank, North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, to access a key financial market.

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He does not condemn outright the reforms of 1991, which entailed deregulating business and opening India up (partially) to foreign trade and investment.

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It is open to Western business, liberal on trade and has attracted a lot of foreign investors.

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Perhaps the most frequently heard argument in favor of permanent normal trade relations with China is that without it, we will lose the China business to foreign competitors.

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The number of alliances in the airline industry soared by 38% to 500 in the year to spring 1998, according to Airline Business, a trade magazine partly because there are usually national barriers to foreign ownership.

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And while Hong Kong still has the world's most liberal tax trade and foreign exchange regimes, there's a warning that its role as a middle man for foreign business with China is likely to diminish.

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