But maintaining open trade is more than a favor to China's hard-liners.

Mr. Baker considers that maintaining open trade and investment is crucial to avoiding another Great Depression.

The Spanish were not successful in maintaining trade with the natives and the post was abandoned within a few years.

There are many advocates of maintaining trade with China.

The alliance has survived equally serious earlier troubles because both countries recognized that it was in their interests to maintain workable trade and security relations.

Here were block after block of embassies from every domain wealthy enough to maintain intragalactic trade.

Cooley maintained friendly relations and trade with the Seminole Indians in the area.

Most of them were fishermen,hill rice farmers and sells jungle product, who maintained trade with the Dutch.

"The great Mexican lesson is the importance of maintaining reasonably balanced trade over the next few years."

The EU must shoulder a particular responsibility for maintaining free and fair trade.