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The US-based National Foreign Trade Council has highlighted the new trade policies that it thinks will come into action in 2014.
Tough year forecast for North American oil and gas
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US consumer confidence at six-month high at the end of 2013
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Do sister city partnerships make economic sense?
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Will 3D printing revive developed world manufacturing?
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Arizona emerges from California's shadow
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Tennessee governor takes business approach to attracting investment
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