Free trade is not a particularly partisan issue in Congress, and there used to be a bipartisan pro-trade majority.
That has made it far harder to find the sort of big bipartisan pro-free-trade majority that used to exist in Congress.Moreover, the issues have widened existing divisions within each party.
The free-trade majority in the Commons was determined to defeat measures that relieved agriculture, even though the method chosen did not involve protection, yet Disraeli had to bring forward some such proposals to placate his followers.
The International Labour Organisation estimates 20,000 children are working in the Madagascan vanilla trade, the majority of them in the Sava region.
Though some were organized according to national origin or trade, the majority were dedicated to the worship of a particular deity.
And though Braunfield recognizes that free exercise rights exist for those engaged in trade, the majority finds against those Jewish merchants who felt penalized by a Pennsylvania statute barring most forms of commerce on Sundays.
I realize there are exceptions to this, however I once heard that if people could dump all of their problems out onto the street for trade, the majority of people would want their own problems back.
But much of China's power industry, although publicly traded, is majority owned by the government.
Primedia, a publicly traded company majority owned by K.K.R., agreed to sell itself to the buyout firm TPG Capital in a deal valued at $525 million including debt.
ThyssenKrupp, Germany's leading steel maker, said it was considering bidding for some units of Klockner & Company, a metals distribution and trading company majority owned by E.ON, now that E.ON has begun selling Klockner in pieces.
