These are the traditional duties and powers of all councilmembers:

Post polls and discussions to determine citizen desires for departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Cast a tie-breaking vote in the polls determining their departmental policies, plans and agendas.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas based on citizen feedback.
Formulate departmental policies, plans and agendas of their own in the absence of citizen feedback (forum outage, low participation, etc).
Convey these policies, plans and agendas to the President for play in the game.
Call Legislative and Override Council Votes.
Vote in Council Votes of all types.

These are the duties of the Trade Department:

Organize trade deals.
Track the status and expiration of established deals.

Please Accept or Decline any nominations you receive.

Yours,
The Election Office

I think it is time Boots sought higher office so I nominate him for Trade Leader.

I would like to Nominate Octavian X, the Film Critic (Incase if you did not noticed his Avatar ;) )

I will second Octavian X for this office.

Thank you for the generous nominations. With the advent of harbors and internatonal roads, I accept.

Thank you Peri. I will be undecided at the moment, as I'm not sure if I should run for this or another leader office.

I will decline as I am now running for three posts.

I'll nominate myself and accept this poistion...

I have NO intent to win... I just want to give a link between the Trade/Science departments... which should remain close ;).

I'll run, so I nominate and accept. I want to give Octavian a challenge but I'm happy to loose with just 1 vote as I prefer being Governor.