Then came the Obama administration, which insisted, as part of any trade deal, on renewing a program to assist people adversely affected and adding $964 million to the effort.
Pearce, of Capital Economics, points out that technological change could give trade a renewed boost, with increasingly fast internet connections facilitating the provision of more cross-border services, for example.
Mining shares are leading the way forward after better than expected Chinese trade data renewed hopes of a positive outlook for the world's second largest economy, helping the FTSE 100 to a new high for the year.
Surely the extraordinary courage, generosity and sacrifice of so many trapped in or near the World Trade Center renewed our belief in human beings and human kindness.
And with you now moving closer to Iraq -- reopening the Iraqi oil pipeline through Syria, renewing trade with and flights to Baghdad and holding secret discussions with Saddam Hussein about Iraqi backing for Syria in the event of an Israeli attack -- neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore will protect you.
Yesterday's trading offered renewed hope for some teams.
The arrest in September of Kweku M. Adoboli, the London trader facing charges of fraud and false accounting after UBS uncovered a large trading loss, renewed calls by some Swiss politicians for UBS to abandon investment banking altogether.
The dollar's downward drift in European trading followed renewed losses in Tokyo and New York, where the 12-country euro bought $1.3407 late Wednesday.
A flood of earnings reports hit Wall Street, stirring frisky trading amid renewed optimism about the outlook for tech stocks after International Business Machines ibm blew away official forecasts with a surge in profits for the first quarter.
And where politicians are pushing for renewed trade liberalisation – in the transatlantic trade deal known as TTIP, for example – they are facing a powerful public campaign from consumers nervous that multinationals will be handed too much control.
