Sentences with phrase «u.s. trade negotiators»

Canada and U.S. trade negotiators working to expand markets for GMOs don't only have a problem with individual European Union states like France.

Efforts by Trump and U.S. trade negotiators to link the NAFTA trade pact talks to the duties received short shrift from Ottawa and Mexico City.

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Also, U.S. President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said he hoped to further open China's economy to U.S. companies.

President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said he hoped to further open China's economy to U.S. companies.

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 Ntrade 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 Ntrade deal» ever signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NTrade Agreement, or NAFTA.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

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.

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.

Trudeau will head into his meeting with Trump after talks with the influential House of Representatives» Ways and Means committee, one of two bodies of U.S. lawmakers helping negotiators put forward the U.S. positions on trade.

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.

The E.U.'s trade chief, Peter Mandelson, slammed the conduct of the U.S. negotiators and hinted that rather than working for success, the U.S. was actually preparing for the failure of the talks.

In this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating process.

Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are in Beijing digging in for the first round of what they expect to be recurring, difficult talks...

Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, has also blamed some of the problems with the talks on a «whole complicated process» that requires negotiators to clear positions with members of Congress and officials at other agencies.

Representing the U.S. at the negotiating table is the Trump administration's chief negotiator John Melle, the assistant trade representative responsible for U.S. trade policy in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator said on Tuesday he was not looking to negotiate changes to China's state - driven economic system in trade talks in Beijing this week but would seek to expose it to more foreign competition.

You don't have to be a professional trade negotiator to be skeptical of the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump decided to exempt Canada from his steel and aluminum tariffs simply because that nice, good looking guy who's prime minister of Canada phoned to plead on behalf of Canada's steel and aluminum producers.

(Reuters)- U.S. and Chinese negotiators will end two days of talks on Friday to try and avert a trade war over thorny technology transfer issues amid expectations that they will not reach a breakthrough deal but will at least agree to keep talking.

«On the phone a lot» to save Kyoto The exchange took place nearly three years after U.S. negotiators helped to broker the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that allowed wealthy countries to trade for emissions credits to cover some of their reduction responsibilities.

The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's influential economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Todd Stern, the lead U.S. climate treaty negotiator at the U.S. State Department, Obama adviser John Podesta and Lee Zak, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

In «Dirty Deals ``, Friends of the Earth Europe and other environmental groups reveal how U.S. negotiators at the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks work to undermine the EU's Fuel Quality Directive and unleash exports of dirty fuels, including tar sands oil, a highly intensive source of greenhouse gas emissions.

From July 2 through 10 in San Diego, negotiators from the U.S. and eight other countries will resume talks on drafting a Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement, potentially the most expansive deal of its kind for the United States.