I was ashamed," he said, declining to give his last name because much of the scrap trade is done informally and off the books.

The opaque scrap trade plays an important role in the lead market, accounting for well over half of refined lead production.

They want a braking mechanism to keep from being trampled by a headlong rush to scrap trade barriers.

With illegal profiteering through scrap trade auctions over the Internet, corrupt government officials, election rigging and hooliganism, the town gets murkier.

Until the end of 2001, freight trains still served Obercunnersdorf (scrap trade) and Herrnhut (coal and timber).

After 30 years in the scrap trade, Bert took the opportunity to retire and Clark became Sims' key metal trader as part of the sale agreement.

Mayapuri has hundreds of shops and thousands of workers in the scrap trade, with different shops specializing in different metals, mostly originating from abroad.

As Gaidar tells it, he had no choice but to let prices rise to increase supply and to scrap trade barriers so that foreign commodities could begin to fill store shelves.

“For a long time we have suspected that many … cylinders were disappearing, not just into the illegal scrap trade but also as part of a more organised criminal underworld,” he said.

Sir Leon acknowledged that the European Community's program to scrap trade barriers aims to help European companies grow and cut costs so that they can compete better against larger American and Japanese companies.

The United States trade representative, Mickey Kantor, announced that after a year of talks, Costa Rica and Colombia had signed agreements pledging to cooperate in trying to get the European Union to scrap trade barriers involving bananas.

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Afghanistan are hoping that a small steel industry can be born from the mammoth task of withdrawing equipment by the end of next year, jump-starting a scrap trade and injecting cash into local businesses.

Political leaders and executives of the companies responsible for the project heralded the tying of Britain to the mainland as a symbol of the coming together of the 12-nation European Community, which is in the process of scrapping trade barriers and turning itself into a single market of 325 million consumers. '