Sentences with phrase «u.s. international competitiveness»

TTIP is envisioned as an ambitious, high - standard trade and investment agreement that would promote U.S. international competitiveness, jobs, and growth.

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A big part of Canada's international or relative competitiveness with the U.S. is having a relatively robust and universal publicly funded health care system.

A report on Puerto Rico's financial problems by former International Monetary Fund economists, published by the territory's Government Development Bank on June 29, suggested the U.S. territory reform its labor markets and other areas to improve competitiveness and potentially restructure its debts.

International election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, who were invited to observe and report on the 2004 national elections, expressed criticism of the U.S. congressional redistricting process and made a recommendation that the procedures be reviewed to ensure genuine competitiveness of Congressional election contests.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

As concern over America's competitiveness abroad intensifies, education officials in the U.S. are beginning to consider using individual states and districts — not just the nation as a whole — as the units against which to measure their international peers.

«The comparatively low skill level of U.S. millennials,» write report authors Madeline J. Goodman, Anita M. Sands, and Richard J. Coley, «is likely to test our international competitiveness over the coming decades.

Concern over U.S. competitiveness erupts with each release of international test results.

«Hourly wages are not higher than in the U.S., despite the rhetoric of some politicians that our wages have somehow priced us out of international competitiveness,» said Jim Stanford.

This week at a press conference for the release of the U.S. Export - Import Bank's (Ex-Im) annual report on the agency's competitiveness, Chairman Fred Hochberg called for more transparency from international Export Credit Agencies (EAC).