But in difficult times calls for trade protection get louder, and may be heard favourably by politicians.
Whether all-out currency wars (in the form of trade protection) will emerge in 2011 is harder to tell.
Trade protection will not save such jobs: if they do not go overseas, they are still at risk from automation.
These included growing demand for trade protection and mounting hostility to immigrants.
Or is it more of a cover for trade protection issues?
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Economic weakness, especially if it is expressed in rising unemployment, will, however, make the Bush administration even keener to pander to domestic lobbies for trade protection, as it already has for steel and farms.
Another common business subsidy is trade protection.
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The shipping container has done this again over the past 50 years: there is almost no level of legal or tax trade protection that could have stopped foreign goods getting ever cheaper as the costs of hauling things from country to country fell ever lower.
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The Europeans are cross at American misuse of trade-protection instruments, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties.
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The prospect of a sweeping trade-protection bill in the fall of 1929 triggered the stock market crash.
These measures elevate the importance of trade secret protection in supplier relationships and create much-needed disincentives for theft.
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So are we to conclude that these groups support trade secret protection at the federal level but not at the state level?
"If someone can watch the performance and figure out what the secret is, then that magician would lose trade secret protection, " says Crasson.
In particular, a designer may first seek and secure a design patent and then secondary meaning for trade dress protection of the design can be developed during the 14 years of design patent protection.
This story and others also invariably contain quotes from environmental groups or anti-development activists who complain about the trade secret protection clause in the Texas law, but who also have expressed longtime support for a proposed federal law commonly referred to as the FRAC Act.
Talks are due next month in Belgrade which are expected to lead to agreeements on free trade, investment protection and the avoidance of double taxation.
What this sort of collaboration will mean for the running of the company and the protection of trade secrets is an open question.
Furthering the challenge for industry, many countries, including India, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, do not provide statutory protection for trade secrets or confidential information.
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Protection of trade secrets is as American as apple pie.
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In the course of my work over the past three decades as an expert on trade secrets and information protection for hundreds of Fortune 2000 companies, I have reviewed thousands of NDAs.
In the most shocking allegation, Jorge Noguera, who headed a civilian intelligence agency from 2002-05, is facing criminal charges over claims that he provided paramilitaries with a list of trade unionists under government protection.
He is cosier with the sort of interest groups (trade unions) that will call for protection, and is keener on using labour and environmental standards to hamper trade.
In addition, you have call protection since they trade well below par so a call is a positive event.
Given European sensitivities on agriculture, however, there is a big risk that such new initiatives could focus primarily on manufacturing trade and investment, leaving protection for most farm products untouched.
Borker has been the subject of hundreds of consumer complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and other consumer protection agencies by victims across the United States and in countries abroad.
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But countries nearly always resort to anti-dumping instead, suggesting that their real aim is not to ease the adjustment to freer trade but to bring back protection by the back door.
The modus operandi of MSSB is evident: make the protection of its trade secret customer information enormously expensive for Fidelity, and then argue to arbitration panel(s) that the damages at stake are ininiscule.
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Reversing a lower court in a closely watched case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has determined that a trade treaty that restores copyright protection to foreign works previously in the public domain is not unconstitutional.
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