UN, EU and US sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear programme exempt trade in medicine for humanitarian reasons.
Much of what was reported in the programme concerning the trade in smuggling wild animals was grossly exaggerated, as were the prices suggested.
The Trade Adjustment Assistance Act is the principal programme for compensating those displaced by trade, but its outlays are a rounding error compared to the money spent on disability and health insurance compensation.
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The warning comes in a report prepared by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN-The World Conservation Union and WWF, the global environment campaign.
The first minister met senior SAS representatives in New York as part of a programme of business and trade meetings designed to boost investment and employment in Scotland.
The focus on eliminating export subsidies, which are used far more by the Europeans than by America, obscures the fact that America's export credits and its food-aid programme distort global farm trade too.
This, he said, would be modelled on the European Union's programme for Euro-Med free trade by 2010.
They dare not antagonise their supporters in the bazaars with a programme of privatisation, deregulation and freer trade.
Earlier Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he would not be drawn into a trade war with France, saying it would lead to thousands of British workers being laid off.
The rial has reportedly lost more than 80% of its value since 2011 because of US-led trade sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme.
Hence the government will end the Aid and Trade Provision, a tied-aid programme (although it will not cut out tied aid altogether).
The centrepiece of his programme was to be a cap-and-trade bill.
Finally, why did the programme not point out that in fact world wide the trade in wild-caught reptiles and amphibians has been steadily declining over the past 3 or 4 years.
The guidance was produced in consultation with food manufacturers, supermarkets, trade associations, consumer groups and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP).
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There could, however, be some kind of trade-off whereby the West would tolerate a civilian nuclear programme (which is all Iran has, it says) in return for more rigorous restrictions on it.
Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he had concerns about the complexity of the voting system when he was Scottish secretary.
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Because of resistance from allies, the prime minister has shied away from confrontations with the trade unions and other vested interests who would be provoked by any serious reform programme.
Mr Johnson told BBC One's This Week programme the low point of his week had been "the rather depressing news that every trade union, apparently, is going to oppose AV in the referendum".
"When you realise that half the budget is already committed to contracts, that means effectively wiping out almost the entire new build programme for the next four years and that will have a tremendous impact on the construction trade in NI, " he warned.
The cash goes through a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) mechanism, the Low Carbon Buildings (LCB) programme.
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