Reynolds Tobacco Company in a commercial speech case filed by the Federal Trade Commission which challenged their use of the cartoon character, Joe Camel, as an unfair trade practice to target children with the fun-loving character.
Dumping is an aggressive trade practice involving an exporter selling goods abroad either below the price in its home country, below the cost of producing them or below what investigating authorities believe is a fair market price.
The FTC has ruled previously that applying a material change in a privacy policy to information collected under a prior policy, without customer consent, constitutes an unfair or deceptive trade practice in violation of the FTC Act.
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But we in Asia can expect to encounter more cybersquatters like Lukmantara before any trade-practice laws catch up with them.
"This is a different way for journalists to practice their trade and make a contribution, " McGowan said.
"This is a different way for journalist to practice their trade and make a contribution, " she said.
He pointed to the creation of a voluntary code of practice by trade associations, but said a compulsory registration scheme would simply regulate those in least need "while the cowboy continued to operate".
For proof, one need only ask how many psychiatrists practice their trade in Pakistan or Bangladesh, or how many citizens of both countries avail themselves of the various anti-depressants marketed by pharmaceutical concerns, including Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil.
The Department of Trade and Industry says the practice misleads holidaymakers and prevents them from shopping around for cheaper deals.
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Open Harbor, in San Carlos, California, wants to be global trade's equivalent of a radar detector, replacing with a fast Web service the practice of thumbing through thick tomes of trade rules and restrictions.
Fewer members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the industry's trade body, are in public practice than in 1989.
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David Balto, a former policy director for the Federal Trade Commission, now in private practice, says that the legal definition of anticompetitive practices has changed since 1998.
This ambiguity also frustrates American trade officials, who consider European labelling laws, both in theory and in their rather confused practice, to be a technical barrier to trade.
This idea has, in fact, been put into practice in America since the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
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The Federal Trade Commission has been concerned enough about this practice that it held consumer hearings in May of this year.
On the other hand, women tend toward lower-paying specialties like pediatrics and general practice, and they often make further trade-offs in pay for more flexibility, he says.
The practice gained popularity and participants via free trade agreements and bi-lateral investment treaties in which developed countries would require developing countries to agree to have disputes handled by the ICSID.
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How the above works in practice is that most of us run trade deficits with our landlords, clothiers, restaurants and appliance stores, yet we finance those alleged deficits with the surpluses we run with our employers.
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Unfortunately, this expansion has prompted physician trade associations to largely oppose any laws granting expansion in practice scope that allows the physician-independent practice of medicine.
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In practice such cartels account for only a small proportion of trade, but there is a strong economic argument for outlawing them all.
The Chicago Merc, for one, has long made it a practice to fine traders who lob gobs of quote bombs but rarely trade.
The director, Mira Nair, introduces viewers to a milieu in which Indians practice their bright-hued rituals while competing with whites in the motel trade and keeping a friendly distance from blacks.
The firm also questions whether banning the practice, which is common in some other countries, would be compatible with trade treaties signed by Russia.
In practice, Brazil's low-cost food may be shut out by rich countries' trade barriers.
This strong reaction by Western credit markets contrasts sharply with the long-standing practice of Free World suppliers who, as demanded by Moscow, formerly agreed to conduct virtually all trade on an "open account" basis.
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