Sentences with phrase «states trade measures»

WASHINGTON — China is the main target of possible tough new United States trade measures against low - priced imports of steel and aluminum.

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China's ambassador to the United States explained to CNBC on Tuesday evening why his country was striking back against U.S. trade measures.

Business Insider recently looked at each state's biggest international trading partners as measured by value of goods exported and imported in 2016.

In private, European diplomats admit that the United States is also signaling willingness to ease some proposed protectionist measures against Europe in exchange for such tougher European trade action against Beijing.

The U.S. Dollar Index (USDX, DXY) is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies, often referred to as a basket of U.S. trade partners» currencies.

Or to counter state capitalism like China's, they may engage in explicit subsidies or tax breaks or subsides or preferences or soft loans to promote domestic business's ability to compete overseas against state supported or state owned companies — trade promotion ideas which teeter between reasonable competitive measures and bad crony - capitalism.

BEIJING The Chinese industry body which recommended targeting scrap aluminium in retaliatory trade action against the United States is already exploring what other measures could be taken, an official said on Monday.

The trade - weighted US dollar index, also known as the broad index, is a measure of the value of the United States dollar relative to other world currencies.

China said it will respond to any new trade tariffs by the United States with measures of the same scale and intensity.

However, the international shipment of non-U.S. goods through the United States can make standard measures of bilateral trade balances potentially misleading.

Corporate concerns were only inflamed by President Trump's Asia trip, which showcased his «America First» trade policy and left the United States isolated as 11 other nations agreed to new trade liberalization measures.

In addition to the comedy of Mr. Roubini, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman offered measured comments regarding the need to respect the «generational» nature of the booming interest surrounding the cryptocurrency markets.

«The minor tweaks to CETA's investor - state provisions do nothing to stop foreign corporations from using the threat of billion dollar lawsuits to prevent governments from enacting socially or environmentally responsible measures,» said Larry Brown, co-chair of the Trade Justice Network.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

That means that while the United States» current trade rhetoric is a marked change from the past, U.S. trade in practice may continue to be one of globalization, albeit more measured.

But as the United States prepares stiff trade measures and China retaliates, stock markets have plummeted and some of America's biggest companies are pushing back.

«We hope that the United States will rescind its measures that violate World Trade Organization rules as quickly as possible,» the ministry said in an online statement about China's retaliatory tariffs.

And recent signs suggest that the administration may be becoming a bit more measured in its trade approach in response to pressure from congressional Republicans from states that Trump won in 2016; many of those states would be disadvantaged should the US leave NAFTA.

Since then, the White House has announced another trade measure targeted at China that would place tariffs on at least $ 50 billion worth of products imported to the United States and would restrict investment flows between the two economic giants.

Investment restrictions would be the second stage, following tariffs, in a sweeping trade measure that aims to penalize China for what the United States deems unfair trade practices.

Using a broader measure of output that includes international trade in goods, [1] it appears that net trade is also weighing more heavily on growth in NSW than in other states, particularly those most exposed to the current resources boom.

Numerical quotas are generally inconsistent with the requirements of Article XI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of 1947 (GATT), and so the United States may need to defend such measures under the national security exception under Article XXI of GATT.

The National Corn Growers Association, which represents the interests of more than 300,000 growers, said the United States needs to be «measured» in its approach to keep its trade doors open with China.

The first phase of sanctions targeted individuals, but these new measures prohibits U.S. institutions from trading new bonds with the government of Venezuela or state - owned oil company PDVSA, a move intended to choke off the regime's finances.

BEIJING / WASHINGTON China warned on Friday it was fully prepared to respond with a «fierce counter strike» of fresh trade measures if the United States follows through on President Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion of Chinese goods.

Moreover, because these new proposed measures target imports from all countries that supply steel or aluminum to the US market, several or perhaps even all those countries may seek to initiate proceedings against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO), which enforces the GATT.

While the biggest winners from the original 12 - member TPP — Vietnam and Japan — stood to see their conventionally measured gains from trade sharply reduced, countries with existing FTAs with the United States, including Canada, stood to see their gains increase as their existing preferential access to the US market would not be eroded and they would not have to share trade gains in other TPP markets with the United States.

«We have said many times that China resolutely opposes any kind of unilateral protectionist trade measures,» Lu stated.

Moreover, while the threat of protectionist measures has remained, the political problems of the Trump administration may have lowered the possibility of aggressive unilateral measures by the United States on trade.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

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«As the D - 8, we need to intensify our activities with a view to enhancing various measures and incentives introduced to promote trade and assist the business communities from Member - States to invest in our countries and widen our cooperation.

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama announced the policy in his state of the nation address in February, saying that the measure would «stimulate air trade, investment and tourism.»

Now officials from Ontario and Quebec - where most of that nation's steel is produced - are not ruling out taking retaliatory trade measures against New York State.

Currently, there are nine states that have enacted Internet Safety Laws (California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia) which require online dating sites to follow prescribed compliance measures to avoid penalties for violation of unfair trade or deceptive practices.

Ten years after terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the profound impact on the United States is not hard to see, from heightened domestic - security measures to the U.S. role in conflicts deemed part of a war on terror.

In fact, the measures on the GCI are influenced more by state and national industrial, health, trade, monetary, tax, and labor policies and regulations than by what a 15 year - old student scores on an international test.

He backs a measure now under consideration here to encourage greater public participation by requiring large publicly - traded corporations operating in Illinois to disclose their state income tax payments.

Those trade - offs are worth accepting, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in order to achieve the goal of measuring student achievement aligned with common national academic standards, which most states have adopted this summer.

If passed, the ban would send a clear signal that the United States condemns the dog and cat meat trades in East Asia, said Sara Amundson, executive director of the Humane Society Legislative Fund, which lobbied for the measure.

This stated that measures which would have net adverse economic impacts nationally or on Australia's trade competitiveness would not be implemented in the absence of similar action by major greenhouse gas producing nations.

The measures include a cap and trade program covering 85 percent of the state's emissions, incentives for utilities to generate electricity from renewable sources, funding for a high - speed rail, deployment of a massive solar power initiative, and new building codes to reduce waste and improve energy efficiency.

As the United States, the European Union and other Annex I Parties prepare legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, their policymakers are under increasing pressure from domestic constituencies to include trade measures as part of domestic climate policy.

[1] BILL C - 30, An Act to implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States and to provide for certain other measures (October 31, 2016); currently at Senate review stage; recent government commentators have suggested the Bill is expected to be passed by late Spring 2017 (per European Union Chamber of Commerce in Canada February 23, 2017 seminar in Toronto).

Based on our Bill Rights which provides that «the state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of the right to have access to health care services», our Department of Trade and Industry has developed a draft IP Policy which intends to initiate the amendment of several IP laws, amongst which is our Patents Act.

However, a measure, be it a grant, interest or tax relief, guarantee, government holding or the provision of goods and services on preferential terms, is characterised as State aid when it is the result of an intervention by the State, leading to a possible distortion of competition and one which is likely to affect trade between Member States.

Such measures shall be proportionate and may not constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade between Member States.

One of the few state - to - state trade panels under the CUSTA, the 1993 challenge involved Puerto Rico measures prohibiting the sale of ultra-high temperature («UHT») milk.

In order to constitute state aid, a measure has to fulfill four conditions: it must confer an advantage on an undertaking, this advantage must be selective, it must be granted by the state and through state resources, and it must distort competition and affect intra-Union trade.

According to the Court, the fact that Swedish legislation does not prevent this practice, results in an infringement of article 34 TFEU because this «failure by a Member State to adopt adequate measures to prevent barriers to the free movement of goods that have been created, in particular, through the actions of traders but made possible by specific legislation that that State has introduced, is just as likely to obstruct intra-Community trade as is a positive act» (para 74).