Sentences with phrase «american negotiators»

American negotiators are in a precarious position indeed — they are charged with the defense of the most unreasonable and unsustainable model on Earth, charged with the defense of a mythology of growth and progress that endangers entire populations.

The success of the next climate agreement, which is due to be finalized during talks in Paris one year from now, may hinge on American negotiators winning in this latest spat in a long - simmering quarrel with their European counterparts.

American negotiators are working to rewrite trade pacts with Mexico and South Korea, in large part because these countries run large bilateral trade surpluses with the United States.

In recent weeks, American negotiators have pressed allies to restrain their own metal shipments to the United States voluntarily in exchange for having the tariffs lifted.

American negotiators demanded changes to rules of origin, with the intent of ensuring that America alone benefits.

The recently - ended fourth round of NAFTA has stoked major fears the 23 - year - old trade deal could end with a U.S. withdrawal because American negotiators tabled potentially deal - killing proposals on dairy, autos and other issues that Ottawa views as non-starters.

China will refuse to discuss Trump's two toughest trade demands when American negotiators arrive in Beijing this week, potentially forcing Washington to escalate the dispute or back down, The New York Times reports.

«When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,» Solomon said.

«When the president announced his plans to attack [the Assad regime] and then pulled back, it was exactly the period in time when American negotiators were meeting with Iranian negotiators secretly in Oman to get the nuclear agreement,» Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon told MSNBC last year.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

The American negotiator claimed negotiators had actually reached an agreement but that two of the seven members of the core negotiating group — a clear reference to India and China — had scuttled it by rejecting a compromise reached on a key provision.

American negotiator Robert Lighthizer describes the dispute clause (that Canada supports) as a job - robber that provides «government risk insurance for foreign outsourcing.»

«The implication of including the rights of indigenous peoples in a draft would impinge on the constituents of an American negotiator,» he says.

Not exact matches

Auto industry lobbyists and government officials said they did not expect the USTR negotiators to reveal specific targets on Lighthizer's demand that a minimum percentage of North American vehicles be produced in the United States.

U.S., Mexican, and Canadian trade negotiators meet this week in Washington DC for the first of seven lightning rounds to reshape what Trump calls the «the worst trade deal» ever signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

Rules for cars were scheduled to play a prominent role over the past week, but the top U.S. negotiator on the issue was hurriedly summoned back to Washington on the first day of the talks to meet with representatives from American auto companies.

In a bid to boost American manufacturing, U.S. negotiators are reportedly pushing for higher limits in the updated agreement being worked on right now — perhaps even minimum levels of U.S. - made components.

It could be seen as a gesture of goodwill for Canadian and Mexican negotiators who are in talks with the U.S. to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.

«He has done incredible damage to our relationship with Mexico, some to Canada and a lot to the European Union, all of which was not necessary and not desirable,» said Shapiro, who served as a trade negotiator during PresidentBill Clinton's administration and helped complete the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The three nations have vowed to continue talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) through March, but the yawning disagreements on core U.S. demands are piling pressure on negotiators to come up with fixes before Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign begins in the spring.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

But now it turns out much of the $ 1 billion the Canadian negotiators relinquished to the United States has been used to reward the American lumber industry and other friends of President George Bush's administration.

For Trump's negotiators, it is attempts to demand «Buy American» exceptions.

And John M. Weekes, Canada's negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s, said the president's «notion is going down very badly in Canada.»

Canadians tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK September 7, 2017 — As negotiators for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week they've made little progress on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement

The ruling was handed down as negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico met in Ottawa to negotiate reforms to Nafta, a sprawling trade pact that has guided the North American economy since 1994.

The North American Free Trade Agreement negotiators have struck an optimistic note over the past few weeks, hinting that a deal is imminent.

Canadian negotiators have pointed out that the North American treaty doesn't capture the value of high - tech equipment in autos, Reuters reported.

U.S. negotiators began trade talks with the Chinese on Thursday, with Beijing vowing that it can win a protracted trade war and halting orders for American - grown soybeans as a warning shot.

On Friday, trade negotiators began the second round of efforts to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement.

From 1991 to 1993 Mr Weekes was Canada's chief negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), including for the side agreements on environmental and labor co-operation.

Battalions of negotiators for Canada, Mexico and the United States have been working at a breakneck pace trying to reach agreement on a revamped North American free trade pact by the end of the year but so far they have little to show for it.

We've teamed up with journalist and Equal Pay Advocate Catt Sadler, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and four fierce negotiators to curate the tips and advice you need to walk into a negotiation with confidence.

Ryan has also served in the offices of members of the US Cabinet and US Congress, conducted research for several think tanks, and served as a negotiator for a new counter-narcotics framework with Latin American governments while at the US State Department.

Trump will come under increasing pressure from visiting French and German leaders this week not to scrap the three - year - old nuclear agreement with Iran next month as American and European negotiators make tentative progress toward a new deal to toughen the limits on Tehran.

According to an attendee conveying a statement from the former president, Clinton believes Schneiderman has «demonstrated remarkable tenacity and skill as negotiators and advocates for ordinary Americans.

Clarke said Britain would lose out in global trade talks to emerging economies if it left the EU, warning negotiators would be «outgunned by the Americans».

«One of the risks that I think the Trump administration needs to consider is the risk that China will become a global leader in this new technology, which is market - driven, and the Americans will be left behind,» said Leon Charles, a former veteran negotiator from Grenada.

American arms control negotiators could not tell their Russian counterparts how much plutonium to look for in the sealed containers, and the Russians could not be left to make the measurement themselves.

Last month Peter Allgeier, assistant US trade representative, told the US House of Representatives» science, space and technology committee that American and Russian negotiators have settled the content of the agreement, but that a legal text has yet to be prepared.

There is both, a professional and a personal aspect: «Gestures like this can help build trust and establish a strong rapport between negotiators,» said Dennis Schroeder, a Visiting Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The codewords that negotiators have adopted for carbon trading were designed to appease anti-capitalist Latin American governments, which are wary of international markets in general.

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As the largest debt negotiator in the nation, Freedom Debt Relief (FDR) has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans significantly reduce the amount they owe and resolve their debts more quickly and affordably than many other options.

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

I spoke with German negotiators just before the talks, and nobody was sure how [the Americans] would behave,» says Dröge, referring to concerns about potential disruptions ahead of the conference.

Far from disrupting the talks, some of the U.S. diplomats sent signals that there are still people to be trusted in the American climate camp, according to Susanne Dröge, a climate policy analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, who debriefed some German negotiators after COP23.

Some feared that the indecision around American involvement would have rattled the negotiators, but on the contrary, they have actually shown their resolve and recommitted to the Paris Agreement.

While the Indians aggressively pushed for REDD + + in negotiations and the Americans argued for an even broader approach to land use - based emissions including the recognition of carbon absorbed by all land use change, African negotiators took a softer approach — pushing for REDD, but willing to take a rain check on AFOLU, even as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) was promoting its «BioCarbon» initiative, which explicitly endorses credits from sustainable agriculture and forestry.

The Clean Power Plan could also give American climate negotiators a valuable leverage tool ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.