Sentences with phrase «countries retaliate»

But once they start doing this, other countries retaliate with the same measures.

American farmers — a key part of Trump's political base — are worried that if countries retaliate against the US for these tariffs, their agricultural exports could bear the brunt of those punishments.

Not exact matches

Speaking to French radio station RTL on Wednesday, Lagarde said: «The macroeconomic impact would be serious, not only if the United States took action, but especially if other countries were to retaliate, notably those who would be most affected, such as Canada, Europe, and Germany in particular.»

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a wild state of the nation address to the country's elites on Thursday, and he chose to conclude the speech by hyping up a bunch of doomsday nuclear devices and threatening to retaliate against anyone who attacks the US with nuclear force.

The Asian country vowed to retaliate.

More than 20 countries joined Britain in blaming Russia for the attack, and expelled more than 120 Russian diplomats from their countries to retaliate.

It wasn't Trump's first move to retaliate against a country's perceived unfair trade practices: The U.S. has moved forward with tariffs against Canadian softwood lumber exports, initially proposed in April 2017, for instance.

IT magnates appears intended, at least in part, to warn American tech businesses off supporting any action that the Obama administration has planned to retaliate for China's hacking and industrial espionage,» William McCahill, a veteran China watcher who left a U.S. diplomatic career in 2000 to focus on business in the country, wrote last week for Mirabaud Securities.

European countries, such as Spain, Italy and Switzerland, retaliated with tariffs of their own, and a trade war began.

Imposing tough sanctions would fulfill the president's promises but could tip off trade wars around the world as other countries seek to retaliate against the United States.

The president has significant authority under federal law to retaliate against countries he believes are trading unfairly.

Normally, it involves one country imposing a tariff on a product, like steel, and then another country will retaliate by raising tariffs on a separate product as a form of punishment.

That's because countries can always find ways to retaliate — and there are already signs that countries are planning to do just that.

Cui said accusations of intellectual property violations are «groundless» and his country «will certainly fight back and retaliate.

While tariff changes were being contemplated in the US, the potential affected countries, mainly in the EU, indicated their intention to retaliate, just as countries now are already lining up to oppose the Trump tariffs.

It also compelled other countries to retaliate with their own protectionism measures.

There's also fear that other countries could choose to retaliate unilaterally against the United States, outside the aegis of the WTO.

It also warned that if China retaliates against US companies in response to tariffs, American companies would lose business that would go instead to companies from other countries.

On Fox Business Network Friday morning, Peter Navarro, a top White House trade adviser, said he did not believe any country would retaliate, «for the simple reason that we are the most lucrative and biggest market in the world.»

But it will also upset other countries, which could retaliate by restricting American products from its market.

It's also worth noting that this is by no means a slam dunk in terms of job creation, even if other countries don't retaliate.

The tariff was removed in December 2003 after the World Trade Organization deemed it illegal and said countries such as Japan and those in the European Union could retaliate.

However, if China pushes too hard on this front the U.S. could retaliate with similar measures against Chinese firms in the U.S. and / or encourage U.S. firms to migrate to lower - cost countries at a faster pace than is already occurring.

When Pres. Obama imposed tariffs on Chinese tires, China retaliated by enacting heavy tariffs on American automotive parts and poultry entering the country.

SEOUL (Reuters)- South Korea's Lotte Group said Chinese authorities have halted construction at a multi-billion dollar real estate project after a fire inspection, amid worries in Seoul that Beijing is retaliating against the country's plans to host a U.S. missile defense system.

The 1974 law Trump is invoking to impose the tariffs, known as Section 301, authorizes the US president retaliate against a foreign country's «unfair trade practices» (pdf, p. 64).

And while Trump's tax and spending plans are raising hopes for faster growth, his combative approach to trade relationships with such countries as China and Mexico could slow the economy if U.S. trading partners retaliate and collectively impede the flow of imports and exports.

Another concern is that other countries will retaliate.

Yet our country provokes them to constantly to goad them to retaliate to facilitate war on them.

The next decision for the retaliating country is to identify which products to put on its list.

Many in these other countries want to retaliate, he said, and if they succeed what will we do?

What usually happens in cases like this is that the country being targeted by tariff retaliates by imposing tariffs on the imports from that country.

If the threat is terrorists, how can these weapons help us retaliate against an enemy which moves from country to country, hides among civilians and uses technology to outsmart us?

Russia's deputy foreign minister said his country was poised to retaliate aggressively against any new U.S. sanctions on Moscow, adding: «I think retaliation is long, long overdue.

On Monday, Mr Assange used Twitter to question the decision by the UK and more than 20 other countries to retaliate against a nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK city of Salisbury by expelling Russian diplomats.

In December, 2010, accusations against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of peaceful protests throughout the country, which were, in turn unmercifully retaliated against by police and government forces.

Note also that this reasoning implies that a country can increase the welfare of its residents by imposing tariffs on imports of high wage industry products (provided other countries don't retaliate).

Finally, if Country A determines Country B is using unfair trade measures, Country A may retaliate proportionately.