Each had strong business connections, Riordan through his career as a lawyer and specialist in leveraged buyouts, Woo through his father and his grandfather, who controlled the powerful Cathay Bank in Los Angeles and had been instrumental in developing trade relations with Taiwan.
This agreement with Brazil has hobbled Argentina in developing trade relations with the rest of the world, as Chile has brilliantly done.
The European Union is Algeria's main trade partner and the Association Agreement provides a framework for further developing trade relations.
Despite the UK's push to develop trade relations with the country, it faces significant competition from increasing Chinese political and commercial influence.
Although Mr. Eytan's top priority was sending diplomats to Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, he also moved quickly to open diplomatic offices in cities like Aden, Algiers, Prague, Shanghai and Tehran to help immigration to Israel, as well as in Bombay, Rio de Janeiro and Rome to win political support and develop trade relations.
The government of France is also involved, seeing "very big potential" to "develop trade relations, tourism," said Alexis Berthier, a spokesman for the French consulate in Boston, which is promoting programs and events in Maine and working to establish sister cities.
Nablus also developed trade relations with Aleppo, Mosul, and Baghdad.
I especially enjoy this particular role because the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly is a unique institution which focuses on topics of fundamental importance to the countries it represents: promoting democracy, good governance, developing trade and economic relations, etc.
Several African countries are quietly opening diplomatic relations with Pretoria--clearly hoping to develop good trade relations with South Africa, the closest thing to an industrialized country on the continent, as soon as it's politically possible.
We want to develop trade.
While acknowledging that the UK had enjoyed a "golden era" in its relations with China under her predecessor David Cameron, Mrs May said there were a number of other countries that the UK wanted to develop trade links with.
