Last week, Japan's cabinet approved the removal of South Korea from a list of countries with special trade standing.

上周，日本政府审批同意将韩国从贸易优待白名单中移出。

While there, he was asked to go with a special trade group from Korea to establish trade relations with the United States.

在日本的时候，人们邀请他加入一个来自韩国的特别贸易组织，来建立和美国的贸易关系。

First was China's humiliating defeat in the Opium Wars, after which Western nations forced China to give Europeans special trade privileges.

首先是中国在鸦片战争中惨败，此后西方国家迫使中国给予欧洲人特殊的贸易特权。