Sentences with phrase «u.s. trading ships»

As U.S. trading ships were being loaded with sugarcane at Matanzas Bay, the crews killed time with a bat and ball.

Not exact matches

Several times before I've commented on the implications of a possible U.S. - China trade war in response to Trump's repeated calls to raise tariffs on goods shipped in from the Asian giant.

It's acceptable to deduct up to $ 2,000 for conventions directly related to your trade that are held on U.S. cruise ships.

Contract talks between the two sides have dragged on for nine months, leading to labor tensions, chronic cargo congestion and shipping delays at ports along the coast that collectively handle nearly half of all U.S. maritime trade and more than 70 percent of imports from Asia.

The economics of large, labour - intensive plants no longer work in the United States or Canada in an era of robots and inexpensive shipping from Asian countries, most of which have no free trade agreement with either the U.S. or Canada.

The value of those ships stands to grow as Ross negotiates trade deals on behalf of the U.S. and advises on U.S. infrastructure policy.

According to emails and receipts obtained by a government watchdog group, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer's office replaced his original desk, returned the replacement and then bought a new one — racking up nearly $ 4,000 on the purchases and associated shipping costs.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, ship construction, repair and recycling, trade associations, state and local public entities, labor organizations, academics, and environmental groups that advise the Secretary and the Maritime Administration on policies to ensure that the U.S. Marine Transportation System is capable of responding to projected trade increases.

«The September 2007 issue of Game Developer magazine, the sister print publication to Gamasutra.com, and the leading U.S. trade publication for the video game industry, has shipped to subscribers and is available from the Game Developer Digital service in both subscription and single - issue formats.

U.S. crude has shipped to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, China and Panama — further diversifying global supply options, boosting the U.S. economy through increased trade activity with Europe and providing an outlet for U.S. producers.

Assisted brokers and shipping agents to ensure compliance with current U.S. trade regulations and confirmation of correct tariff classifications and proper tariff monies paid.