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Working with educators, parliamentarians, journalists or others who influence the public can help build understanding of the potential of trade. Creating a brochure, Web site, logo, slogan, press conference or event -- without investing in the message first -- may not achieve the results desired. Before starting, consider the following steps: 1. Set resource priorities. 2. Look at the backdrop. 3. Stand out in a crowded environment. A message communicates values and position, whether it is to gain acceptance of a regional trade agreement, promote women entrepreneurs or explore new opportunities for trade in services. A message puts together the pieces of who you are and what you want to achieve.
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As continue to grow, the international accreditation network, underpinned by internationally agreed standards, plays an essential role in the support of competitive markets and cross-border trade. This is increasingly important as businesses seek to lower costs or satisfy contract terms while maintaining a level of confidence that products are technically compatible, to specification and safe. Since conformity assessment bodies are mostly commercial organizations, accreditation assesses and declares the technical competence of these organizations in order to provide confidence in their results or test data. The development of standards and accreditation systems is spreading to new territories. The International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation network of members...
... recognized as an APEC Specialized Regional Body. Accreditation is now used to underpin the co...The mainstream acceptance of accreditation by both pan-regional bodies and d...
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... do mask considerable cross-country and regional variation. In some regions, the Gulf and Africa in... restrained by the recognition and acceptance of obligations arising from binding trade accords....
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... least 20 years seeks to unite the three regional Romansh dialects spoken here into a single 'lingua...
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Given the sharp rise in crude oil prices and growing awareness of climate change, the potential of biofuels, particularly of bioethanol, has become an ubiquitous topic of public debate and has induced ambitious policy initiatives. The latter are mostly paired with protectionist measures as the examples of the European Union and the United States show, where domestic producers of energy crops are put at an advantage thanks to subsidisation, direct payments and/or favourable tax schemes. Moreover, the EU is working out a mandatory certification scheme for ethanol imports, imposing social and environmental standards which constitute another hurdle for more efficiently produced ethanol originating in the Southern hemisphere. A similar path is taken by Switzerland's revised mineral oil tax l...
... compared to total production, although regional production and consumption patterns as well as com... of general criteria would use a block acceptance for domestic products and a case-by-case evaluatio...
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... Missile, which it claims secured acceptance of the system by the RNAF and one other European u... its country could become the logical regional centre for overhaul and maintenance work on the Mi...
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... of Agreement, three Letters of Acceptance, four Letters of Intent and eight contracts to be ... has established the park to develop a regional defence industrial hub and is looking to attract f...
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This paper traces the linking of trade and security, a characteristic of US foreign economic policy since 2001. It does so with reference to US economic policy in East Asia. We argue that the US has been unable to resist the temptation to link foreign economic and security policy. While there was evidence of the securitisation of economic globalisation in US policy from day one of the BUSH Administration, it was September 11 that firmed up this trend. Ever since, the BUSH government has been seeing globalisation not simply in neoliberal economic terms, but also through the lenses of the national security agenda of the United States. Economic globalisation has been linked to security policy. This trend is evident in East Asia, where the United States has put an emphasis on Free Trade Agr...
... paper that US policy towards the Asian regional agenda is significantly shaped by the influences o... if liberalism did enjoy a universal acceptance in the USA, there would be no reason for non-liber...
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... guests, they also cooperate closely on regional concerns and enjoy what Lergier calls a "friendly ... seek to attract if the park idea gains acceptance. Will it seek to reinvent folklore, vending it as ...
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...-Schlumpf had barely finished her acceptance speech when Caspar Baader, head of the party's par... are primarily answerable to their own regional sections. . By effectively keeping Schmid and Widm...