Sentences with phrase «us trade officials»

He does not support the recent Trans - Pacific Partnership free trade agreement proposals and frequently criticizes U.S. trade officials.

Canadian trade officials are currently lobbying Spanish and European Union officials to ensure artificial icewine is not labelled as the real deal.

All three parties want to move forward,» said Lighthizer, the top U.S. trade official.

U.S. RESTRICTIONS: U.S. officials are pushing for quotas and «other restrictions» on steel and aluminium imports, a top trade official said after the White House announced a month - long extension of tariff exemptions for Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

At a news conference following a series of meetings with senior U.S. trade officials and lawmakers in Washington, Guajardo said that Mexico was still trying to understand the U.S. proposals that would require 50 % of vehicles» value content be produced in the United States as part of updated North American Free Trade Agreement rules.

«They won't liberalize dairy very much,» said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a former U.S. Treasury international trade official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C. «They might do some token stuff on ice cream but it won't amount to anything.»

Trump and his trade officials have signalled in the past they are looking for more access to Canada's dairy market within a renegotiated NAFTA deal.

and Lighthizer, the top US trade official.

Robert Lighthizer, the top US trade official; at a briefing with reporters following the October round, Lighthizer said, «If we end up not having an agreement, my guess is all three countries will do just fine.»

When asked whether Japan would be open to negotiating a bilateral trade pact with the United States, Ishihara said it was still uncertain whether U.S. trade officials would start such negotiations.

«The United States will not receive any fast - track access to this agreement if they choose to return one day,» a senior Canadian trade official told a teleconference Thursday from Santiago, Chile.

That is casting a shadow over a meeting of trade officials from member countries this week in Tokyo and is raising questions about the economic benefits of a pact that doesn't bring Canada into the fold.

Trade officials are gathering in Tokyo this week to try and forge ahead with a trade pact that President Donald Trump abandoned last year

Trump only wants back in if the U.S. can win better terms, and those countries» trade officials say they are not open to renegotiation.

Wang Hejun, a top trade official in China's commerce ministry, expressed «strong dissatisfaction» with the US's move in a statement on Tuesday, and said that Beijing intends to «resolutely defend its legitimate interests.»

And Trump's top trade official, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, is a formidable negotiator with trade experience dating back to the Reagan era.

At the very time EU and North American trade officials were working out how Europe could conform with the WTO decision, Sarkozy's government came up with a new ban on a Monsanto corn variety that had previously been approved for cultivation in France.

Although they can get a sympathetic ear from European Commission trade officials, the environment commissioner Stavro Dimas is proving to be a major headache for them.

(if Chinese trade officials haven't gotten to those politicians already!)

A day later, the president doubled down on his assertion in a tweet that kept trade officials shaking their heads.

EU trade officials are worried that jobs would be at risk if steel that would have otherwise been sold in the US is diverted to Europe, pushing down prices.

Trade officials initially maintained the Bush Administration's ban on Mexican trucks.

Trump Trade Officials Will Present a Hard Line in China, but Internally They Are Divided Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times

Calls for comment to the company's main switchboard went unanswered during normal business hours; its website was not functioning properly and Saudi trade officials in the United States had not furnished alternative contact information at publication time.

The Canadian Press has learned that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will notify B.C. Premier Christy Clark that he is seriously considering her request for a ban or a tax on thermal coal exports, and that it's being explored by federal trade officials.

At a legislative hearing today in Washington, the top US trade official, Robert Lighthizer, told US senators that Argentina, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, and the EU would be exempted from the 25 % tariff on steel and the 10 % duty on aluminum.

Antonio Ortiz - Mena, a former Mexican trade official, said the letter suggested a softening in tone but also contained several proposals that were likely to prompt a strong response from the Mexican government.

A letter from 15 trade associations representing over 30,000 US steel - using manufacturers and employing one million American workers was sent to President Donald Trump and senior trade officials earlier this week.

Furthermore, trade officials in Canada have connections with the Japanese bureaucracy from the TPP negotiations.

Now, 15 months later, he has directed his top trade officials to look for a way back into the TPP.

A8 I believe Canadian Manufacturers Association has Trade Officials embedded in regional offices.

Donald Trump instructed US trade officials on Thursday to consider a new $ 100 billion round of tariffs on China, upping the stakes in a trade confrontation between the world's two largest economies.

ITI urged top trade officials to focus on technology - related trade...

The bureau also works with government trade officials to protect and expand international markets for American alcohol and tobacco.

The Trade for Sustainable Development Forum brings together business people, researchers, standards organizations and international trade officials to discuss trends in sustainable value chains and voluntary sustainability standards.

Senior trade officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet again in Washington in an intensified push to reach a NAFTA agreement in the next few weeks.

10/6/2017 — St. Helena, CA — As part of an ongoing effort to improve trade relations with Canada, members and staff of the Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), along with a representative of the California Wine Institute, met this week in Ottawa with Canadian trade officials and members of the Canadian Parliament.

American trade officials are already upset with Chile's laws.

Skelos was convicted last year of trading official favors for money and jobs for his son, Adam.

Congressman John Faso, a Kinderhook Republican and member of the House of Representative's Agriculture Committee, said he has met with Canadian trade officials over their concerns.

ESD last year tried to direct $ 15 million from the «transformative investment fund,» a $ 400 million pot created in the 2015 - 16 budget by former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos, who left office after he was convicted of several federal felonies for trading official actions for payments to his son.

Prosecutors have alleged Silver traded official favors for legal referral fees that served as kickbacks.

In meetings on Monday with trade officials, Cuomo made more oblique references to Cuba's human rights record.

ALBANY — In a blow to Republican control of the State Senate, Tom Libous was found guilty Wednesday of lying to an F.B.I. agent investigating how the Binghamton Republican traded official favors with a lobbyist that directed money to his son.

Silver had been accused of engaging in two schemes to enrich himself over the past decade, trading official favors for about $ 4 million in legal fees.

Silver, who has represented the Lower East Side since 1977, is accused by federal prosecutors of trading official favors for $ 6 million in «kickbacks» disguised as legal fees.

Prosecutors charge that Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side, traded official actions for $ 3 million in an illegal kickback scheme.

Republican members of the State Senate will convene behind closed doors this morning to discuss whether it's time for Skelos, a Long Islander who has led their conference for just shy of seven years, to relinquish the reins as he fights federal charges that he traded official favors with a major developer and environmental company that gave a job and money to his son.

The dearth of specific procedures for the TIF is coming to light as discretionary funds have come under criticism by good - government groups and some legislators after Skelos and his partisan opposite, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, were convicted last year of trading official favors for kickbacks to themselves or their children.

The members also said Silver, facing federal felony charges that he traded official favors for $ 6 million in payments disguised as legal fees, would vacate his leadership position before Monday's scheduled session.