Consider a country that has no commercial or other relations with either of two warring parties.

Throughout the troubled period, commercial and cultural relations remained active.

It set out the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states.

We have done very well for more than two centuries by having substantial democratic control of commercial relations.

Only the central government is allowed to conduct foreign political or commercial relations and to declare war.

The improved commercial relations opened the way for permanent missions.

He has contributed substantially to the development of the commercial and cultural relations between the two countries.

Beginning in the 1980s, economic and commercial relations expanded rapidly between the two countries.

Now, commercial relations between the two countries have changed dramatically.

Since the early 1980s, many states have increased efforts to develop direct commercial relations with foreign nations.