Similar words: department of commerce, police department, justice department, service department, maintenance department, fire department, state department, purchase department. Meaning: n. the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913.
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31. The US Commerce Department has been considering industry petitions urging further restrictions on Chinese clothing imports.
32. The Commerce Department reported the US trade deficit narrowed to its lowest level in nine months.
33. The census bureau is an organ of the commerce department.
34. Liu Jie was appointed Director - General of Hunan Commerce Department.
35. He also voted for a Republican budget that sought to axe the entire Commerce Department.
36. Durable goods orders excluding transportation increased 2.4 percent last month, the largest advance since March,[http://sentencedict.com/commerce department.html] the Commerce Department said.
37. The U.S. trade deficit China rose again in March to $ 15.6 billion , the Commerce Department reported.
38. His other quarrel concerned the national census, which for some reason falls under the Commerce Department.
39. The Commerce Department says economic activity contracted at a 0.3 percent annual rate.
40. Treasury, Commerce Department and Office of the United States Trade Representative have said little.
41. Bush also said the Commerce Department is tightening its export control regulations for Burma.
42. The commerce department estimated that between 2006 and 2008 Chinese pipe imports surged 203 per cent.
43. Although disposable personal income rose at a seasonally adjusted rate of $178.1 billion in May, the Commerce Department also reported that private wages and salaries had decreased $12.4 billion.
44. In the U.S., the world's largest oil user, construction spending rose in November for a third month, boosted by federal government projects, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
45. In another report, the Commerce Department said that construction spending fell 0.2 percent in July from a month earlier, and was 10.5 percent lower than it had been in July 2008.
46. His bill, which has 132 co-sponsors, would authorize the Commerce Department to apply anti-dumping and countervailing duties against "injurious imports" from countries with undervalued currencies.
47. On Friday, the Commerce Department is set to release official retail sales numbers for August.
48. The commerce Department has for many years been a stepchild of the city government.
49. The Commerce Department points out that in the last three months in 2008, GDP dropped at the rate of 6.2% annually, which is the most acute downslide in 25 years.
50. The U.S. petroleum import bill hit a record $51.4 billion that month, propelling imports of goods and services up 3.9 percent to a record $230.3 billion, the Commerce Department said.
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