When everyone raises trade barriers, the volume of trade collapses.

The volume of trade is growing rapidly.

The Asian free trade zone, almost free trade zone, that's emerging now has a greater trade volume than trade across the Pacific.

For example, we have quadrupled our trade volume just with our neighbors.

In 2004, cross Straits trade volume reached 78.3 billion United States dollars.

Back then, global commerce was collapsing, presaging a 10.7 drop in the volume of world trade in 2009 the sharpest annual contraction since the 1930s.

During the period 1990 1993 the volume of world trade expanded at an annual rate of over 4 per cent, or six times as fast as world output (0.7 per cent).

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As we enter a new century, these three countries realize that economic prosperity depends, as never before, on the opening of new markets across the world and increasing the volume of world trade.

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More broadly, given Europe s slide into recession and only a slow rise in world trade volume, renewed growth and stronger import demand in Japan would support global recovery.

The volume of China s trade with South Korea is almost 70 times that with the North.

The largest percentage of the total volume of loans was concentrated in industry, trade, and agriculture.

The projected loss in the volume of trade and earnings for African countries is very important.

The volume of world merchandise trade grew by about 4.5 per cent in 1992, compared to 3.9 per cent in 1991, which had been the smallest growth since 1983.

These countries, according to World Bank statistics, saw their incomes rise only from US 298 per capita to US 337 between 1997 and 2002, while the volume of world trade almost doubled in the same period.

World trade is highly imbalanced.

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Table 1. Change in terms of trade, development assistance and export volume in sub Saharan Africa, by

The establishment of the World Trade Organization would ensure greater certainty in the conduct of world trade.

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In 1993, the physical volume of retail trade amounted to only 14.7 per cent of that in 1990.

Ms. Nora Neufeld, World Trade Organization

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Source World Trade Organization, May 2005.

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Nevertheless, world trade remained far more robust than world output.

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Beggar thy neighbor policies could lower total trade volume a zero sum game from which no one would benefit.

Indeed, if foreign owned enterprises exports are deducted from the total trade volume, the surplus vanishes, because both the overall balance of merchandise trade and the balance of trade in services normally run deficits.

The World Trade Organization secretariat has made technical assistance on trade facilitation one of the priorities of the World Trade Organization Technical Assistance Plan for 2005.

Both in Africa and the Arab region, intraregional trade remained mostly stagnant for decades representing some 10 per cent and 8 per cent, respectively, of their trade volume.

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World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

World Trade Organization, document WT L 579.

Ms. Susan Hainsworth, World Trade Organization, Geneva

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