The trio figured that they could make a bundle by successfully solving an intransigent problem of their trade: information overload.
The trade deficit remains intransigent.
Naturellement, and, when it comes to negotiating a trade deal with Canada, intransigent.
To advance trade negotiations with the increasingly intransigent European Union, the Agriculture Department lifted its ban, a long-awaited reversal that was greeted in Italy as a moral vindication along the lines of the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus.
Sources say Crow is actually quite a moderate and flexible trade unionist, but must play the intransigent militant to pacify hardcore members of the RMT's executive committee, or else he'll be out of a job.
Doha collapsed, of course; the president cannot singlehandedly wangle a trade deal when the Europeans are resolutely intransigent and the developing countries oddly willing to derail a deal (and of course Mr Bush and his negotiators had America's own powerful farm lobby hanging around their necks).
Japan wants "sacred" agricultural products—such as rice, wheat and sugar exempted from the free-trade regime.Chatter that Japan was proving so intransigent on these basic issues that the other 11 countries were contemplating going ahead without it was implicitly dismissed by the US Trade Representative, Michael Froman.
More intransigent have been stark inequalities in power and influence among trading nations, leaving LMICs vulnerable to pressures to permit the globalization of IPRs in order to protect broader trade and economic interests.
Worse, the lack of progress in last week's Hong Kong ministerial meeting to discuss the Doha round of world trade talks can be linked directly to the EU's intransigent refusal to open its market wider to farm products (see article).Until the weekend, Mr Blair was refusing to give up any of the British rebate without the promise of more CAP reform.
Russia, more solidly intransigent than ever on Iraq, blocked an American and British plan to revamp rules on trade with the Iraqis, to allow them to buy any consumer goods that could not be proved to have military uses.
