Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sending a team to Jakarta for talks on reviving the aid package. But by Saturday the mood dampened again as Suharto announced his new Cabinet and for the first time included a family member: his eldest daughter, known as "Tutut," who has extensive business interests. The new Trade Minister is chief crony Bob Hasan, a golfing partner dubbed "the Plywood King" for his control of the timber trade...
...export of American films was a hotly-debated topic at the 1994 General Agreement of Traffis and Trade economic trade talks...
...city purchased and renovated theChina Trade Center, which used to be known as theBoylston Building, on the corner of Boylston andWashington Streets...
Today, the China Trade Center, which housesover a dozen Asian-American-owned businesses,ranging from barber shops to travel agencies,sticks out as the only modern office structure ina stretch of graffiti-covered, run-down buildings...
...first job as Premier will be to steel China against the pressure to follow in its neighbors' footsteps and devalue its renminbi trading currency. Those competing economies have a step up on Beijing, whose goods are relatively more expensive. Chinese sales to the rest of Asia fell 1.4% in January compared with 1997, and as South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia flood the world with cheap goods, China's trade with the West will take a beating. If Beijing ultimately succumbs and devalues its currency, the move will probably force Hong Kong to do the same, which could trigger...