To optimize the network of World Trade Centers, and learn from our colleagues in the Rocky Mountain region, the entire office of the World Trade Center Utah made a one day visit to the World Trade Center in Denver, Colorado this past week. We discussed their extensive programming on a variety of global business topics, [...]
SALT LAKE CITY- (June 12, 2009) Stimulating the local economy is the top public policy priority for the next year for the Salt Lake Chamber Board of Governors. Board members discussed and were surveyed on a range of issues during the annual Board of Governors Retreat yesterday. During the day-long meeting the majority of board [...]
Source: Associated Press; By Joe McDonald
BEIJING – China defended its curbs on exports of industrial raw materials against unfair-trade complaints by the United States and Europe and announced Wednesday it has filed its own challenge to a U.S. ban on imports of Chinese poultry.
The Ministry of Commerce said the curbs comply with Chinese trade commitments [...]
Source: Reuters; By Doug Palmer
After months of little U.S. action on trade, there are signs the issue could become more important for President Barack Obama, who heads to Italy in early July to meet with major trading partners.
“We’ve got to stop talking about trade as on the second page of the agenda, and put it [...]
Source: DLC’s Trade & Global Markets Project
The Numbers:
Total number of children 5-14 years, 2004: 1.2 billion
Child workers worldwide, 2004: 166 million
What They Mean:
International Labor Organization researchers, quoting children working in rural northern Ghana:
“Stress; exhaustion; sunburn; too much heat; backache; long working hours; a lack of good drinking water; falling trees; tripping on ropes; [...]
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