The board's members must serve lengthy terms to avoid political influence and have no commercial ties.

Its the commercial ties that counted, and the Hegemony doesn't have enough.

Mr. Brown's committee is already holding talks about commercial ties.

The visit focused on expanding economic and commercial ties between the two countries.

Under the program Iraq has built up or renewed commercial ties with a range of nations.

And the commercial ties between the two were obviously also powerful.

Both countries have severed their diplomatic and commercial ties with each other.

With Japan, there are only commercial ties, he said.

The term describes a strategy in which economic and commercial ties are used to attempt to influence countries' political behavior.

There are close commercial ties between the two countries.