Sentences with phrase «american trade policy»

His rhetoric in recent weeks about future American trade policy leads analysts to believe that a spike in dollar value is coming fast.

The administration took credit for launching «a new era in American trade policy» by reversing decades of multilateral trade policies that it said had damaged U.S. workers and intensifying enforcement efforts.

That stable dynamic has now broken down, with Trump's surprise embrace of steel tariffs throwing much into question about the future of American trade policy.

In February 2006, after working on the lumber trade file for nearly six years, Ed Gillespie visited Vancouver to make the keynote speech at a forum on the softwood lumber dispute, NAFTA and American trade policy.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

Complaints and vilifications of China are no substitutes for thought and smart German, EU and American trade policies.

Not exact matches

With U.S. president Donald Trump vowing to pursue border taxes, renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and implement policies that put «American workers and businesses first,» Canada has reason to be concerned.

Poloz said several forces were restraining Canada's economy, including new mortgage rules, uncertainty about U.S. trade policy and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a range of competitiveness challetrade policy and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a range of competitiveness challeTrade Agreement, and a range of competitiveness challenges.

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

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WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

With their growing surpluses on American trades, China, Japan and the European Union are defying U.S. trade policies — and getting away with it.

But the narrative that the electorate is pushing elected officials towards trade - skeptical policies doesn't actually jive with poll numbers, which show that a majority of Americans think that increased trade is good for the economy.

President Donald Trump is shaking up trade policy just as he promised, with one exception: the part about the «better deal» for the American economy.

Theoretically, it's good for small business: The Wall Street Journal reports that Giuliani hopes at least 13 million people will trade their employer - based insurance for a private plan, bringing the number of Americans who buy their own policies to more than 30 million.

North American stock markets had fallen sharply in late - morning trading following the departure of a top economic adviser in the White House who had been the leading internal opponent to the president's planned protectionist policies.

«Trump campaigned on the negative impacts of trade and trade deals like NAFTA on working Americans, but here instead he is intervening not to help working people but to help American investors and American multinational companies,» Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing at the Economic Policy Institute, a left - leaning think tank, told me in an interview in the runup to the investigation announcement.

It is true that American companies gave away our jobs to Mexico and China and India and other nations, but it is also true that our government gave the green light to those companies to do so through trade policy.

President Donald Trump's trade policies are taking some air out of the high - flying economic optimism that had prevailed among American companies and consumers since his 2016 election.

Rep. Kevin Brady (R - TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees trade policy, met Trump at the White House twice last week to make the case against the tariffs and suggest alternative proposals for how to revive American steel.

Since Trump took office, his administration has been split into two camps: one that favors free trade and is resolutely opposed to using tariffs to reboot American industries, and another that thinks tariffs are both good policy and good politics.

In accordance with his campaign promises on the issue of trade, Trump's already starting to go after China for both its trade policies that hurt American workers and its geopolitical ambitions.

The pattern on trade policy through the first 14 months of the Trump administration has been to pair blustery talk — about pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, for example — with more modest policy actions and negotiations that may avert real economic datrade policy through the first 14 months of the Trump administration has been to pair blustery talk — about pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, for example — with more modest policy actions and negotiations that may avert real economic daTrade Agreement, for example — with more modest policy actions and negotiations that may avert real economic damage.

And although they are familiar with the American delegation's main players, they are less acquainted with who does what among lower - level advisers and officials when it comes to United States trade policy.»

«If I'm the Bank of Canada, I would take these latest numbers with some encouragement,» Holt said, adding policy makers should be concerned about future trade policy, referring to suggestions from President - elect Donald Trump he may want to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreetrade policy, referring to suggestions from President - elect Donald Trump he may want to renegotiate the North American Free Trade AgreeTrade Agreement.

A U.S. delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives here on Thursday with a list of asks for President Xi Jinping: reduce China's trade surplus with the U.S., better protect intellectual property, and end policies Washington says favor large Chinese companies and discriminate against American businesses.

So while changes in trade policy can shift imports and exports from one country to another, for example, reducing the American trade deficit with China while increasing its trade deficit with Thailand, they are unlikely to reduce the American trade deficit overall.

The U.S. trade deficit is a major reason President Donald Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even though economists generally agree that a bilateral trade balance is not directly linked to trade potrade deficit is a major reason President Donald Trump promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), even though economists generally agree that a bilateral trade balance is not directly linked to trade poTrade Agreement (NAFTA), even though economists generally agree that a bilateral trade balance is not directly linked to trade potrade balance is not directly linked to trade potrade policy.

The Trump administration, for example, wants not just to force a contraction in the trade deficit but has also proposed policies aimed at increasing U.S. investment, partly by making investment more profitable (cutting corporate taxes and rebuilding American infrastructure) and partly by increasing savings (cutting taxes on the very wealthy).

While Trump cited «national security» as the impetus for the tariffs, he's been vowing since the campaign to use trade policy to restore jobs to the American manufacturing sector, which has suffered in recent decades.

The document lays out the skeleton of Trump's trade policy for the first 200 days of his presidency, focusing on a set of principles including renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement — a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign ttrade policy for the first 200 days of his presidency, focusing on a set of principles including renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement — a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign tTrade Agreement — a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign trail.

Canadian and U.S. Adjustment Policies in a Bilateral Trade Agreement, Canadian - American Committee 57, by Ronald J. Wonnacott, with Roderick Hill.

A Trade Union View of U.S. Manpower Policy, British - North American Committee 27, by William W. Winpisinger.

However, imposing taxes on products used daily by American consumers and job creators is not the way to achieve those ends,» said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy group that has long been opposed to Trump's trade policy.

American business welcomed the additional specifics on trade policy.

With mounting uncertainty over the future of the North American free - trade agreement and more states eyeing possible Buy American rules, Ontario is keeping the policy ready in case it is needed, a senior government official told The Globe and Mail.

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After leading a trade mission with some of Canada's leading Agri - food businesses to the developing economy in November 2014, the Canadian Agri - Food Policy Institute (CAPI) published a report stating that Canadian food and beverage products are not prominent on Chinese market shelves and are not as well - known as their American / European / Australian counterparts in the Chinese consumer world.

We want to work together with the Administration to implement sound trade policies that help our American workers and job creators.

«I think in order to qualify as a coherent set of policies, the policies have to not be cartoonish and the policies have to stand some chance of being actually enacted, and I just don't think Mr. Trump's trade policies meet either of those criteria,» said Michael Strain, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

The United States» chief trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, who testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday, indicated that the administration was specifically concerned about Chinese policies that compel American companies to share technology when they make investments in China.

The two men take nearly opposite approaches to trade: According to Lighthizer, American jobs and businesses must be protected from what he views as unfair global competition, while Froman has expressed that negotiating free trade deals helps America to set the standards for international trade policies that benefit American economic growth.

Mr. Trump's advisers said the president remains resolute and views the pugilistic approach as the only way to force China to end two decades of industrial policies that have hollowed out American manufacturing and resulted in a ballooning trade deficit.

But joining the TPP also meant effectively renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with the United States under onerous terms of entry that put Canada's other traditional defensive areas on the negotiating table (including Canadian content in media, intellectual property regime preferences, telecommunications ownership policies, and remaining investment restrictions), with little prospect of any valuable concessions from the United States.

The divergent international trade policies have confused allies and sparked retaliation by China, which announced Friday it planned to impose tariffs on $ 3 billion in American products.

It's safe to say that, outside US steelmakers, the American manufacturing industry is strongly opposed to any changes to trade policy that may ultimately limit market access overseas.

«We're working on a tax reform bill that will reduce our trade deficits, increase American exports and will generate revenue from Mexico that will pay for the wall if we decide to go that route,» Trump announced at a GOP policy retreat in Philadelphia.

While the stated objective of this trade policy is to «level the playing field» for American manufacturers — and many trade experts believe cheap imports have hurt the domestic steel industry — tariffs may do more harm than good over the long run.

«The president may not blame China, but I do, and so do millions of Americans who voted for him and others who have lost their jobs at the hands of China's rapacious trade policies,» he said in a statement.

How will these revised policies affect American business, trade, and travel, as well as the well - being of the Cuban people?