The Office of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is also active in the field of international trade, assisting Rhode Island firms in developing and enlarging markets abroad.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Banda had an oligarchic form of government led by orang kaya (' rich men ') and the Bandanese had an active and independent role in trade throughout the archipelago.

Unlike precious metals such as gold or platinum, gem diamonds do not trade as a commodity: there is a substantial mark-up in the sale of diamonds, and there is not a very active market for resale of diamonds.

Guatemala is a transit country for cocaine shipments ; minor producer of illicit opium poppy and cannabis for the international drug trade ; active eradication program in 1996 effectively eliminated the cannabis crop ; proximity to Mexico makes Guatemala a major staging area for drugs ( cocaine shipments ).

The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.

Satsuma remained one of the most powerful and wealthiest domains in the country throughout the period, and though international trade was banned for much of this period, the city remained quite active and prosperous.

The Bolshevik faction led by Lenin advocated an active, politically committed vanguard party membership while opposing trade union based membership of social democratic parties.

He became an active trade unionist and at the age of 17 was elected to the Auckland Trades Council.

Information is lacking from the first millennium AD following the Nok ascendancy, but by the 2nd millennium AD there was active trade from North Africa through the Sahara to the forest, with the people of the savanna acting as intermediaries in exchanges of various goods.

A number of regional trade union leaders and mid-level functionaries are active supporters.

Britain outlawed the slave trade on 29 March 1807 with the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the British Navy operating from Freetown took active measures to stop the Atlantic slave trade.

For instance, Sierra Leone developed an active trade union movement whose strikes were often accompanied by sympathetic rioting among the general population.

The trade of slaves in England was made illegal in 1102, although England went on to become very active in the lucrative Atlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.

The coalition was committed to free trade ( as opposed to the high tariffs the Conservatives sought ), free collective bargaining for trades unions ( which Conservatives opposed ), an active social policy that was forging the welfare state, and constitutional reform to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

The arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, the first Europeans who managed to reach it, initiating the Nanban trade period | Nanban (" southern barbarian ") period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West.

Situated along the Middelzee, it was an active trade centre, until the waterway silted up in the 15th century.

A cooper by trade, he was active in the British Chartist movement as a young man.

Fur trappers, often working for fur traders, followed nearly all possible streams looking for beaver in the years ( 1812 – 1840 ) the fur trade was active.

Student groups have also been increasingly active in the past years promoting fair trade products.

It is applicable as well to associations of manufacturers, retail and wholesale trade groups, consumers ' leagues, farmers ' unions, religious groups, and every other association representing a segment of American life and taking an active part in our political campaigns and discussions.

The silversmith trade afforded him connections with a cross-section of Boston society, which would serve him well when he became active in the American Revolution.

He also became an active trade unionist and was an early member of the Australian Labor Party in Tasmania.

He was an active journalist and trade unionist as a young man, editing The Nigerian Worker amongst other publications while also organizing the Nigerian Produce Traders Association and serving as secretary of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union.

* 6 active wartime unionist

He first became active in politics as a trade unionist at the Jaguar Cars plant in Coventry where he worked and served in many union capacities, including as Branch President ( in what was later to become part of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance union ).

While at Texaco in 1979, Daisley had joined the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs and became an active trade unionist ; he joined the Labour Party in 1982 in Lewisham, feeling that " it needed all the help it could get ".

He was active not only as a Social-Democratic Party worker, but also as a trade unionist.

Hanna was an active trade unionist in the National Union of Journalists.

As a trade unionist he also became active in the Labour Party and was selected in 1928 to stand for the party in the London County Council elections in the safe seat of Rotherhithe.

From 1978 to 1984 he worked as an active socialist and unionist in a car factory, railway workshops and meatworks in the Wellington region.

The terms Greater Shankill is used by a number of groups active in the area, most notably the Greater Shankill Partnership, to refer to both the Shankill Road and the unionist / loyalist areas that surround it.

The revolutionary industrial unionist Industrial Workers of the World, claiming 2, 000 paying members, and the International Workers Association, an anarcho-syndicalist successor to the First International, also remain active.

As Patricia Thompson, she became an active unionist in the entertainment industry, and a vocal teacher, later coaching Nikki Webster before her performance at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Cook was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was an active trade unionist before entering politics.

During his teaching career, Brideson had been an active trade unionist in both the Teachers Association of Australia and Victorian Affiliated Teachers Federation, and at the end of the 1983 school year, took up positions heading both organisations.

He remained an active trade unionist all his life.

His father, Samuel, was an electrician and an active and vocal trade unionist.

Newens has been an active trade unionist and co-operator and has written numerous pamphlets and books, including " The Case Against Nato " ( 1972 ), " Third World: Change or Chaos " ( 1977 ), " A History of Struggle: 50th Anniversary of Liberation, formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom " ( 2004 ) andNicolae Ceausescu: The Man, His Ideas and His Socialist Achievements ( 1972 ).

He is also an active trade unionist and a member of the executive council of his university's union, the Professional Staff Congress, AFT.

An active trade unionist from his days in Britain, Studholme became active in the Knights of Labour and believed that workers should be active in politics on a class basis.

He followed his father into the CPA as a teenager and became an active trade unionist.

Chant became a member of the Communist Party of England ( Marxist-Leninist ) and remains active in the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) and is also an active trade unionist.