A recent study faulted wealthy countries for refusing to drop barriers to developing country exports.
Under the accord, China said it would drop barriers that had previously prevented the import of some American agricultural products.
The European Union must drop barriers to immigration to boost growth, according to the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, in clear opposition to arguments put forward by the leave camp in the EU referendum that the UK would prosper despite restrictions on migrant workers.
But not all agreements are equally desirable.A good deal would see Germany agree to an effective banking union that pools at least some of the risks in the euro zone, while France accepts the need to liberalise its economy, deepen Europe's single market and drop barriers to international trade.
Simultaneously, in the context of the play, we also witness the characters build and drop barriers created desperately to defy the warnings that seemed beyond the scope of possibility.
We neutralized all of the North Korean check points (which we considered to be illegal check points that had been installed by the North Koreans within the zone, where they could drop barriers and stop our movement within the jointly controlled zone) so that they couldn't react.
There were no tanks on the street, but the Islamabad police dropped barriers athwart government buildings.
By the 1970's, regulators had dropped barriers to pay television.
In the past several years, developing countries have dropped barriers and opened their markets in the belief that free trade, not reliance on handouts, is the best way to climb out of poverty.
In the past several years, these developing countries have dropped barriers and opened their markets in the belief that free trade, not reliance on handouts, is the best way to climb out of poverty.
He blamed others for the crisis: Democrats who dropped barriers to borrowing in order to promote homeownership; what he once termed "predatory borrowers" who took out mortgages they could not afford; banks that took on too much risk; and large financial institutions that did not set aside enough capital to cover their bad bets.
