Topic: United States
BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - China is setting up a new agency to help streamline its trade negotiating bureaucracy as the world's third-largest economy faces a growing number of commercial disputes. The new China Trade Representative office (CTR) will absorb a tangle of offices that have overlapping influence on trade matters, and it will have functions similar to the United States ...
It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board an airplane — a decision that's in the hands of about six experts from the Transportation Security Administration. The ...
Farmers and small meatpackers in Indiana say they are worried the state's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money could hurt one of the state's few growing industries. Their fears highlight a dilemma lawmakers in many states face as they struggle to ...
