economic/commercial work or section. --- Generally a foreign embassy will have an economic/commercial section. This section is headed by an experienced senior officer who supervises his or her staff of specialists, a clerical staff, and sometimes nationals of the host country. The commercial half of the section is concerned with facilitating exports to, and investments in, the host country. The economic part of the section deals with economic relations at a government to-government level and provides economic information and analysis to its home government

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