At the end of 1974 the Hoa controlled more than 80 percent of the food, textile, chemical, metallurgy, engineering, and electrical industries, 100 percent of wholesale trade, more than 50 percent of retail trade, and 90 percent of export-import trade.
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It appears that some of the drug-import trade from Laos simply moved to Nghe An after a major ring was busted two years ago in another province that led to the execution of seven people, including police and border guards.
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He had been an early risk taker in import trading and accumulated enough money by 1995 to buy a controlling share in his old neighborhood grocery, which was floundering under new taxes, high prices and the alien complexities of quasi-free enterprise.
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As a nation we have realized that our export trade and our import trade had a definitely good effect on the life of families, not only on our Coasts but on the farms and in the cities a hundred or a thousand miles from salt water.
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The secretary-general of the Chinese Muslim Association added that Taiwan could benefit a lot by understanding Islam, such as it will make things easier for Taiwan to do export and import trading with the growing Muslim countries, as well as attracting more visitors from various Islamic countries.
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A substantial amount of the trade finance activities was carried out through what was then referred to as the Import Trade Financing Operations Program ( ITFO ); which was commenced soon after the establishment of IDB, in 1977G, to finance the import financing needs of the member countries.
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There are claims that the Chinese were the first people to mention the production of cured ham, whilst Larousse Gastronomique claims an origin from Gaul, but it was certainly well established by the Roman period, including an import trade from Gaul mentioned by Marcus Terentius Varro in his writings.