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He arranged to make the illegal payments through two Cyprus-based corporations he set up and through a Swiss energy trading consulting company, Sarenco S.A.
Gary Blumenthal, chief executive of World Perspectives, a Washington-based agriculture trade consulting company, noted that wheat was grown in many countries and said that Chinese purchases would not necessarily result in a sustained jump in already high world prices.
Chinese membership of the WTO has been a disaster for local manufacturers, says Charles Blum, president of trade consulting firm International Advisory Services Group Ltd and an official at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under President Ronald Reagan.
Paula Stern, the former chairwoman of the United States International Trade Commission who now heads her own trade consulting group, calculates that without the embargo the United States could sell $444 million of food and medicine a year in Cuba, generating 6,000 jobs.
Savio Chan, the president of US China Partners, a trade consulting practice in Melville, said, "It isn't easy doing business in Asia, but it isn't as hard as you might think".
China is an important market for American poultry, particularly for portions like chicken feet, which are a delicacy in China but barely marketable in the United States, said Gary Blumenthal, the chief executive of World Perspectives, an agriculture trade consulting firm in Washington.
She also started an international trade consulting firm in Lexington.
So if we're going to be negotiating a trade deal and consulting corporate interests, we'd better make damn sure to be consulting citizens, academics, and public interest groups as well.
