* 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.

Trade across the Red Sea between Thebes port of Elim and Elat at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba is documented as early as the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.

The Arabian Trade Route ( green ) and the Way of Seir ( black ) are improbable routes, the former having the advantage of heading initially toward Kadesh-Barnea but swinging east towards Petra north of Aqaba / Eilat.

The ( FTC ) Federal Trade Commission requires that the franchisee be furnished with a Franchise Disclosure Document ( FDD ) by the franchisor at least fourteen days before money changes hands or a franchise agreement is signed.

In 1740, from materials furnished by a merchant, Webster published a pamphlet on the wool industry called Consequences of Trade to the Wealth and Strength of any Nation, by a Draper of London.

Frankincense & Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade.

Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in February 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most significant building commissions, both of which still exist: five apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau.

The UK brought together several countries ( including some bordering the EEC ) and decided to form the European Free Trade Association in about 1959, soon after the establishment of the 6-nation EEC ( France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands ).

Wells brought his interest in Art & Design and politics together when he and other notables signed a memorandum to the Permanent Secretaries of the Board of Trade, among others.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

Post-punk brought together a new fraternity of musicians, journalists, managers, and entrepreneurs ; the latter, notably Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and Tony Wilson of Factory, helped to develop the production and distribution infrastructure of the indie music scene that blossomed in the mid-1980s.

This action, brought by the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, claimed the five integrated studio-theater chain combinations restrained competition.

Trade in rubber and ivory, together with the taxes imposed on the population of the Empire ( including the mainland ), brought vast income to Lisbon.

Trade with European powers and the Japanese brought in massive amounts of silver, which then replaced copper and paper banknotes as the common medium of exchange in China.

The General Court hears disputes ( such as disputes brought by those refused a trademark by OHIM, the EU Trade Mark and designs registry ).

In 2005, the issue of voting along party lines was brought up when two Barisan National Members of Parliament ( MPs ), Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamed Aziz, supported a motion by Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) to refer International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary Sidek Hassan to the Committee of Privileges.

Well respected by many Chinese citizens, Zhu has also garnered the respect of prominent Western political and business leaders, many of whom credit Zhu with engineering China's market-opening and ascension to the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ), which has brought foreign capital pouring into the country.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

Although not a commercial success, this release brought the band to the attention of Rough Trade Records, to whom they signed.

* Federal Trade Commission Decisions ( July 1949-December 2005 ) This is a compendium of agency decisions in administrative cases brought under 16 C. F. R.

The Atlantic Slave Trade brought some balafon players to the Americas.

He was appointed Minister of Trade in the short-lived but notable John Lyng cabinet from August to September 1963, following the Kings Bay Affair that brought to an end to the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by Einar Gerhardsen and Oscar Torp.

In 1875 he had published his Five Essays on Free Trade, which brought him an honorary membership of the Cobden Club, and in 1878 the government published his New South Wales, the Mother Colony of the Australians, for distribution in Europe.

They were brought in by Glenn Curtiss ( in conjunction with the Kern County Board of Trade ).

Ten years later, in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, seeking revenge on Queen Amidala, Nute Gunray and Gilramos Libkath, a Trade Federation contract-scribe, agreed to ally the droid armies of the Trade Federation with Count Dooku's Confederacy of Independent Systems, under the condition that Amidala be killed and brought to Gunray.

Trade with India brought Buddhism from southern India.

The thirties also saw the onset of a period of extreme economic stagnation brought about by the Anglo-Irish Trade War.

Hashimoto retired as Minister of Finance, but was almost immediately brought back to the cabinet, this time under coalition premier Tomiichi Murayama as Minister of International Trade and Industry.

A year later, Scottish Media Group plc brought out the ITV contractor for Northern Scotland, Grampian Television, for £ 105 million .. Gus Macdonald left the company in 1998 to become a Scottish Trade minster.