Sentences with phrase «called unfair practices»

South Korea's antitrust regulator fined Qualcomm 1.03 trillion won ($ 854 million) in December for what it called unfair practices in patent licensing, a decision the U.S. chipmaker said it will challenge in court.

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He proposed the tariffs in part to follow through on campaign promises to crack down on what he calls unfair trade practices.

Trump has ratcheted up his criticism of China's massive trade surplus with the United States — calling it «embarrassing» and «horrible» last week — and has accused Beijing of unfair trade practices, fueling worries of increased tension between the world's two largest trading countries.

In a statement Friday from the IMF meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the IMF to «step up to the plate» to call out countries engaged in unfair trade practices — a frequent refrain from the Trump administration is that its trade penalty threats are not protectionist, but simply seeking «fair» exchange.

The new measures follow a so - called 301 investigation led by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer into China's potentially unfair trade practices with the U.S.

The steel and aluminum tariffs are part of a broader effort to crack down on what Trump calls unfair trading practices.

A California suit filed Monday seeks a court order to halt what it calls Facebook's unfair and deceptive business practices.

The U.S. National Security Strategy notes that «China is gaining a strategic foothold in Europe» and calls for joint action with European allies to «contest China's unfair trade and economic practices and restrict its acquisition of sensitive technologies.»

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

«President Trump made it clear from day one that unfair trade practices will not be tolerated under this administration,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on a conference call with industry executives.

Over the years, retailers have cheerfully trousered millions of pounds in what has been variously called «shelf money», «hello money», marketing support or what the UK Groceries Code Adjudicator coyly describes as «unfair practices».

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) is calling for greater industry collaboration to eradicate unfair labour practices.

She says her new bill would combat what she calls «unfair» Chinese trade practices.

It's time that the TPSB be called out for its unsound and unfair practices.

ASIC's review of ClearView's sales calls revealed unfair sales practices during the period 1 January 2014 to 30 June 2017.

In spring 2013, Ontario's Ministry of Consumer Services introduced legislation with tough measures to protect consumers from unfair business practices surrounding what's called «debt settlement services» (also known as «debt reduction,» «debt relief» and «debt negotiation» in advertising sales pitches).

Education reported it conducted a review of rehabilitation calls with a specific focus on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.

Just before Christmas last year the government published its response to the recent call for evidence on «Tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market».

These actions are called unfair labour practices.

38 -LSB-...] the practice at issue in paragraph 31, second indent, of Annex I to the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive exploits the psychological effect caused by the announcement of the winning of a prize, in order to induce the consumer to make a choice which is not always rational, such as calling a premium rate telephone number to ask for information about the nature of the prize, travelling at great expense to collect an item of low - value crockery or paying the delivery costs of a book which he already has (sic).

All states have provisions in their rate regulation laws or in their fair trade practice acts that prohibit unfair discrimination, often called redlining, in setting rates and making insurance available.

The agency, she said, would deploy its Section 6 (b) investigatory powers as well as its Section 5 power which the FTC uses to punish what the law calls «unfair and deceptive» business practices.

These developers have even reached out to Chinese antitrust regulators in an effort to have authorities call out the Cupertino giant for its alleged unfair practices.

The KFTC decision saw Qualcomm fined 1.03 trillion won (around $ 1.1 billion CAD) for what the commission called unfair business practices in patent licensing and modem chip sales that were deemed detrimental to competitors — including Samsung.

A. I'm not sure from your question whether you want to call your broker on his unfair referral practices or on his possible inappropriate relationship, so I'll try to address both concerns.

Unfair promotion practices, an intolerance for failure, micromanaging leaders, fuzzy communication practices — these are just a few conditions that can send people into the survival - focused fight / flight / freeze part of the brain, creating what Comaford calls the Critter State.