Sentences with phrase «countries under the agreement»

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Moreover, threatening retaliation with tariffs on products originating from particular companies in foreign countries is illegal under trade agreements to which the U.S. is bound.

Not only that, but under the WTO's Agreement on Textiles and Clothing of 1995, quotas that had been maintained by western countries on imports of textiles and clothing had to come off by the beginning of 2005.

Under the agreement each country has submitted a national strategy to meet its own emission reduction goals.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt did not confirm whether the United States would remain in the global climate change pact, under which nearly all countries agreed in 2015 to halt or curb their greenhouse gas emissions, even as the world's biggest emitter China reaffirmed its commitment to the agreement.

In Paris, Canada and France agreed to co-operate and push other countries to honour their commitments under the Paris climate agreement.

Nearly every country in the world has committed to take action under the Paris Agreement to slow global warming.

He points out that New Zealand — a country that places a high value on human rights, rule of law and democracy, as Canada does — has benefited enormously under a free - trade agreement with China.

Under the WTO services agreement, if countries commit to the complete opening of a sector, they have to allow unlimited foreign ownership in that sector.

Some Implications of Most - Favoured Nation Treatment,» respected trade lawyer Lawrence L. Herman concludes that investors from countries that have preferential trade agreements with Canada will be entitled to the same preferential benefits as EU investors under the Canada - EU trade deal.

In a press release government officials reaffirmed the country's role in meeting commitments under the Paris Agreement and said France wants to be the first to issue a sovereign green bond in 2017.

That's because the growth in emissions from developing countries, including China and India, will simply dwarf any U.S. action, making their commitments under the agreement far more important.

Under the administration of Governor Brown, California has signed international agreements with eight countries, including China, to encourage mutual trade and investment.

Whether trade between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico continues under NAFTA, WTO rules, new trade agreements or something else, the three markets will still be integral for businesses in each country and billions of dollars of trade will cross the borders between them each year.

The agreement gives the two countries a framework under which to advance economic cooperation.

This reflects the fact that most of the bilateral relationships among the other CPTPP countries are already substantially liberalized under existing free trade agreements.

(CNN)- Publisher HarperCollins reached an agreement Monday to buy fellow publisher Thomas Nelson, a move that will bring the two largest religion book publishers in the country under one corporation.

As many journalists and commentators have argued, agreements like the TPP have dubious benefits for citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying access to Internet users».

The Obama administration is suggesting that the inspections in Iran are going to be unprecedentedly harsher that in any other country while they are under this agreement, but even after the agreement is over the International Atomic Energy agency would have regular access as they have in any other nuclear nation.

The NDC government in 2013 signed a Public Private Partnership agreement with the Margins Group of Companies to register foreigners in the country under a project called «Foreigners Identity Management System (FIMS).

Iran is adhering to the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program under a 2015 agreement, the United Nations agency charged with monitoring the country's facilities has said in its first report since President Trump refused to certify the Islamic republic's compliance.

The government has said it intends to trigger a recall of Parliament to ratify the 1998 and the 2015 defence cooperation agreements the country signed with the US under different National Democratic Congress administrations.

Central New York and the North Country will not receive any new casinos, under the plan, because the Oneida and Mohawk tribes have reached agreements with the Cuomo Administration for exclusive rights to operate existing tribal - run casinos.

BUT the referendum on September 18 is under UK law (Edinburgh Agreement) and states that Scotland doesn't become a independent country as soon as the election is counted but only after negotiations with the UK - and everyone hopes that everything will be sorted out during those negotiation period.

Under the WTO agreements, countries can not normally discriminate between their trading partners.

Under the agreement, Rio Tinto will provide support for the expansion of the DIHR's Human Rights and Business Country Portal, a freely available website that helps businesses identify, assess and address human rights risks in specific countries.

The two countries have also sealed an agreement for scholarship grants for young Ghanaians under the ABE (African Business Education) Initiative to help improve the human resource development of the Ghanaian youth.GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com

Agreements with 46 countries are in place, and agreements with a further 78 are under neAgreements with 46 countries are in place, and agreements with a further 78 are under neagreements with a further 78 are under negotiation.

However, the construction is a symbolic setback for the Schengen Agreement under which European countries started removing barriers between each other 20 years ago.

Announced Tuesday, the agreement was reached under Project Civic Access, the Justice Department's initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

AAAS Programs Work in Middle East to Strengthen Science Capacity Saudi Arabia's national science program and AAAS» Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) have expanded their five - year partnership with a new agreement to analyze the impact of grants made under the country's strategic science plan.

Saudi Arabia's national science program and AAAS» Research Competitiveness Program (RCP) have expanded their five - year partnership with a new agreement to analyze the impact of grants made under the country's strategic science plan.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Even if emission reductions exceed pledges made by countries to date under the Paris Agreement more than three quarters of the world's coral reefs will bleach every year before 2070.

If emission reductions exceed pledges made by countries to date under the Paris Agreement, coral reefs would have another 11 years, on average, to adapt to warming seas before they are hit by annual bleaching.

Most notably, hitting a pollution target that a country set for itself under the agreement remains entirely voluntary.

Yes, a lot of pirates are out there, taking fish illegally, underreporting their catches, fishing under the flags of countries not party to international fishing agreements.

The University of East Anglia, with the assistance of the U.K. Met Office, is now trying to get countries that had provided weather station data under confidential agreements to release the information to the public.

Under the agreement, reached at an intergovernmental meeting here on Tuesday, most program funders will increase their annual contribution by 2 % to 4 % to offset budget cuts by Japan, the country that has been HFSP's largest sponsor since its inception in 1989.

Under the agreement, Arctic countries and non-Arctic countries, such as China, will be part of a joint scientific research program determining what fish are in the region.

Most developed countries see carbon markets as crucial under any new agreement because they seek out the cheapest emissions reductions, making climate change targets more achievable.

Under an international agreement called the «25 - year rule» countries acknowledge they should not launch objects whose life span in Earth orbit will go beyond 25 years after their mission concludes.

The Trump administration will also have the choice to simply ignore U.S. emission targets under the Paris agreement — the accord does not include any formal punishment for countries that do not meet their goals.

Five days of discussions in Yokohama, Japan, failed to resolve demands from tropical countries that other forests, including the great northern forests of Siberia and Canada, should be included under a new International Tropical Timber Agreement when the present one expires next year.

Countries haven't yet committed under the Paris Agreement to take the steps needed to prevent that level of warming.

But an agreement among the rich countries was blocked by the European Community, under pressure from its southern member states, and Greece in particular.

But some say the U.S. government should reexamine its legal obligations under the law and add safety rules to the agreements countries sign when they buy U.S. fuel or reactors.

The analysis finds that a single policy tool — fossil fuel subsidy removal — could deliver emissions reductions equivalent to one - quarter of all current country commitments under the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.

Under agreements made at earlier CITES meetings, Tiger range countries have to state what action they have taken to protect Asian big cats.

The statement points out that, even if countries meet their existing greenhouse gas reduction targets under the agreement, a recent report from the United Nations projects «a global temperature rise of 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

Countries are considering using CERs from emission reductions up to 2020 to achieve post-2020 mitigation targets, under both the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).