Sentences with phrase «countries retaliate against»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.