* 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the air.

Trade and economic cooperation between Russia and Botswana are stipulated by the Trade Agreement of 1987 and the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation of 1988.

A high volume of trade and migration between the United States and Canada has generated closer ties, especially after the signing of the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

In October 2007, Nauruan Foreign Minister and Trade Minister David Adeang travelled to Cuba to strengthen relations between the two island nations.

Trade between the EU and Egypt has risen by more than 5 % in the last five years to reach around 11. 6 billion euro in 2004.

The European Free Trade Association ( or EFTA ) is a free trade organisation between four European countries that operates parallel to, and is linked to, the European Union ( EU ).

Trade between Afghanistan and the U. S. is beginning to grow at a fast pace, reaching up to approximately $ 500 million per year.

Trade and diplomatic relations developed between England and the Barbary states during the rule of Elizabeth.

On 1 July 2006, the Central American Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) entered into force between the US and Guatemala and has since spurred increased investment in the export sector.

In 2005 Guatemala ratified its signature to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) between the United States of America and several other Central American countries.

: See also: Trade between Iron Age Britain and the Roman world

A Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Iraq is in the process of being negotiated and will probably be concluded during 2008.

In 1975 the Asian elephant was placed on Appendix One of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) which prevents international trade between member countries.

Trade between Japan and China was one of the many reasons China was able to grow in the double-digit rates during 1980s and 1990s.

Trade is sizable between the two countries:

Trade unions have sometimes been seen as successors to the guilds of medieval Europe, though the relationship between the two is disputed.

Liechtenstein has been a member of the European Economic Area ( an organization serving as a bridge between European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) and EU ) since May 1995.

* Trade agreement between Estonia and Belgium and Luxembourg ( 1935 )

Trade between the two countries is imbalanced, with imports from Greece to Nigeria exceeding exports.

Keating was instrumental in the introduction of the Prices and Incomes Accord, an agreement between the Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU ) and the government to negotiate wages.

Trade between China and Islam took place via the system of trading posts over the lengthy Silk Road.

Also that month, summit talks with the United States helped ease the tension between the two countries caused by the previous administrations ' policy towards North Korea, and the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement was discussed.

Trade between the two countries continued to increase nonetheless.

Now Britain has decided to seek admission to the European Economic Community and it seems certain that she will be joined by some of her partners in the loose Free Trade Area of the `` Outer Seven ''.

Roman Shipping and Trade: Britain and the Rhine Provinces.

* Trade Union Government and Administration in Great Britain by B C Roberts

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.

* In Britain, Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp found the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade with support from John Wesley, Josiah Wedgwood and others.

Britain enacted the Slave Trade Act 1807, which barred the trade of slaves in Great Britain ( though slavery was still legal ).

* April 5 – In Britain, the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act 1927 forbids strikes of support.

The Danish formed a Board of Trade in 1668 and secured a commercial treaty with Britain, providing for the unmolested settlement of uninhabited islands, in July of 1670.

As President of the Board of Trade, he was the driving force behind the Statistics of Trade Act 1947, which is still the authority governing most economic statistics in Great Britain.

Trade with both Britain and France was now thrown open, and the United States attempted to bargain with the two belligerents.

He does a great deal of work for the Trade Union movement in Britain and his work appears every week in the British newspaper The Guardian.

Though Fox would die before abolition was formalised, he oversaw a Foreign Slave Trade Bill in spring 1806 that prohibited British subjects from contributing to the trading of slaves with the colonies of Britain ’ s wartime enemies, thus eliminating two-thirds of the slave trade passing through British ports.

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon, 1930: The character on the right represents a skeptical Britain becoming increasingly protectionist and dissatisfied with its Free Trade policies, as represented by the Wilkins Micawber | Micawber character to the left, during the Great Depression.

* Political Strikes: The State and Trade Unionism in Britain by Peter Hain, 1986, Penguin Books Ltd ISBN 0-14-007962-9

In the course of their pursuit of economic independence, Fianna Fáil also provoked what is known as the Anglo-Irish Trade War with Britain in 1933, by refusing to continue paying back " Land Annuities "-money that Irish farmers had borrowed from the British government since the 1903 Wyndham Act in order to buy their own land.

He had been working on this policy throughout the 1830s, when he was President of the Board of Trade in Britain, though he had little time to implement any economic reforms once he had arrived in Canada.

* East New Britain Tourism & Trade Directory

Trade in aircraft engines continued, with Britain selling hundreds of its best to German firms-which used them in a first generation of aircraft, and then improved on them much for use in German aircraft.

The Boston Port Act ( the Trade Act 1774 ) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 1, 1774, and is one of the measures ( variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts ) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.

Among the larger national centers in the world are the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Change to Win Federation in the USA ; the Canadian Labour Congress ; the Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) in Britain ; the Irish Congress of Trade Unions ; the Australian Council of Trade Unions ( ACTU ); the Congress of South African Trade Unions ; the Dutch FNV ; the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish LO ; the German DGB ; the French CGT and CFDT ; the Italian CISL, CGIL and UIL ; the Japan Trade Union Confederation RENGO ; the Argentinian CGT and CTA ; the Brazilian CUT, and so on.