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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The latter activities include but are not limited to coca plant harvesting, protection of their crops, processing of coca leaves to manufacture cocaine and drug trade protection.
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.
The Ethiopians cite the agreements the two countries have signed on free trade, environmental protection and even military co-operation as evidence of how well they had been getting on.
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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It certainly must do so if it is to square Estonia's liberal habits such as no trade tariffs and no protection for farmers with the less enlightened requirements of European Union membership.
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.
Japanese agriculture is famously operates under the protection of labyrinthian trade barriers and a 800 percent tariff on imported rice.
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