Sentence examples for a trading block from inspiring English sources

The other signatories could decide to set up a trading block of their own, without America.

But all the signs are that we are better off in a trading block.

Mr. Nicholas said Connecticut businesses should view this region as a trading block with significant market opportunities.

Paraguay is less of a smugglers' Shangri-la now that it is a member of Mercosur, a trading block that includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

Louder than ever, it was said that, back in 1973, Britain had been tricked by Heath into joining what was presented as a trading block but was really an embryo-superstate, a corrupt one too.

Mr Ghemawat argues that two otherwise identical countries will engage in 42% more trade if they share a common language than if they do not, 47% more if both belong to a trading block, 114% more if they have a common currency and 188% more if they have a common colonial past.What about the "new economy" of free-flowing capital and borderless information?

"It's become just a political block, not a trade block," grumbles Marcos Jank, a trade specialist in São Paulo.Mr Chávez's absence from Asunción may, however, mark a turning point.

Kenya, like Uganda a big investor in the south, has been more measured in its response, stressing that South Sudan should become a member of the East African Community, a trade block.

Besides, Thailand has advantages of its own: it may be small, but it is a member of the ASEAN Free Trade Area, a trade block of ten South-East Asian countries with a total population of over 500m.

It was the bloodiest so far in a series of bombings to have hit the Caucasian republics.Georgia became the first member formally to leave the Commonwealth of Independent States, a trade block formed in 1991 by former Soviet republics to cushion the economic blow of the Soviet Union's collapse.

Nevin, the Padres veteran, is one of the latest to reject a trade, blocking a deal to the Orioles last week for Sidney Ponson.