Sentences with phrase «earlier trade agreements»

Clearly, earlier trade agreements did not do enough to protect American workers from sudden dislocations and, especially when it comes to China, the agreements did not protect the environment.

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Earlier in the day, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse had told reporters that Trump was reconsidering the withdrawal from the trade agreement, which Obama Administration had negotiated with 11 other Pacific Rim countries to promote free trade by reducing barriers between them.

Trump made similar comments linking the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and immigration when a «caravan» of migrants from Central America moved through Mexico earlier this month.

Another of Trump's early decisions — to withdraw from the Trans - Pacific Partnership — kicked off a wavering war against trade agreements that has left small business owners either buoyed or blasted, depending on their business models.

Earlier this month, Sony competitor Oculus Rift was hit with a $ 500 million judgment for violating a nondisclosure agreement with Zenimax, though a jury decided Oculus had not stolen trade secrets.

Ebert argued the earlier agreements were invalid because they amounted to restraint of trade but Superior Court Justice Frederick Myers granted summary judgment in favour of Mars Canada in November 2016.

When critics of the TPP conflate their criticism of that pact with their criticism of «free trade,» they miss an essential element of the TPP that has disaffected many otherwise loyal supporters of earlier - generation agreements that truly focus on deregulation of «trade» per se, he notes.

In early 1983, Chrysler reached a tentative agreement with its creditors to trade this preferred stock for Chrysler's regularly traded common stock.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the parties involved in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which followed up an earlier Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States, has mostly served Canada well.

And John M. Weekes, Canada's negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s, said the president's «notion is going down very badly in Canada.»

Canada remains committed to free trade and the most recent example of that is the interprovincial agreement that was signed earlier this month.

The twin actions represent Trump's first tariff orders and are his most consequential trade actions since the early days of his presidency when he withdrew from a Pacific trade deal and launched negotiations to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreetrade actions since the early days of his presidency when he withdrew from a Pacific trade deal and launched negotiations to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreetrade deal and launched negotiations to overhaul the North American Free Trade AgreeTrade Agreement.

Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) were trading higher by more than 3 percent early Tuesday following unconfirmed reports the electric - car and solar - power maker is close to reaching an agreement with the Chinese government.

Dubai - based developer, Limitless, is making an early payment of AED2.07 billion (US$ 0.56 billion) to banks and trade creditors after concluding a restructuring agreement with lenders.

The state visit to Canada by President Park Guen - hye on Sept. 20 - 22 inaugurates a major new chapter in Canada's 50 year relationship with South Korea, headlined by the signature of the Canada - Korea free - trade agreement completed earlier this year.

That trading mentality is shared by the Liberal government, who has a history of supporting trade through the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the World Trade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early Novetrade through the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the World Trade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early NoveTrade Agreement to the World Trade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early NoveTrade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early November.

Then an expected agreement on the start of free trade talks with China did not materialize during Justin Trudeau's Beijing visit earlier this week, blocked by Chinese objections to including «progressive elements,» such as labour and gender rights, in the negotiations.

The first two rounds of talks between the United States, Canada and Mexico — the member countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement — on reforming the agreement have so far been relatively uneventful, even if they are still at an earAgreement — on reforming the agreement have so far been relatively uneventful, even if they are still at an earagreement have so far been relatively uneventful, even if they are still at an early stage.

In a cross sector act of cooperation, signatories from 35 representative bodies in the UK food and drink supply chain have signed an open letter calling on the government to make an early agreement on future trade with the Republic of Ireland as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.

Now, Nobis and other agricultural workers around the state are keeping an anxious eye on President Trump, who campaigned on tearing up trade deals he feels are bad for U.S.e workers, and is reportedly preparing to pull out of a free trade agreement with South Korea as early as this week.

So I am delighted that the new Administration has made a trade agreement between our countries one of its earliest priorities.

Despite early indications from the Commission that negotiations on the trading agreement could not begin until the UK had exited the EU, there seems to be acceptance from national governments that negotiations on the withdrawal agreement and the future relations agreement will run in parallel.

In a package of moves hailed by Miliband's team as the most significant since John Smith's «one member one vote» shakeup in the early 1990s, the Labour party is set to introduce a code of conduct for prospective parliamentary candidates, strict spending limits and standard constituency agreements with trade unions.

An unusual bipartisan coalition of 19 of New York's 27 House members came together in opposition to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade deal between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries, saying the agreement would destroy manufacturing jobs in the state just like earlier trade deals did.

Talks in Colombia to hammer out an international agreement controlling trade of bioengineered organisms broke down earlier this week, putting the protocol on hold with a goal of reaching an agreement by May 2000.

Earlier this week the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 became the first tablet to receive a Trade Agreements Act (TAA) certification.

In early 2014 the EPA reached agreement with Sergeant's Pet Care Product's, Inc. and Wellmark International to cancel flea and tick collars containing propoxur marketed under the trade names Bansect, Sentry, Zodiac and Biospot.

Earlier on this site, National Journal's energy blog, and MasterResource.Org, I opined that Markey's proposal would violate U.S. treaty obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Early in his first term Gov. Christie pulled New Jersey out of the landmark Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, despite projections that this cap - and - trade agreement to reduce carbon pollution would create new jobs, improve public health and contribute to utility bill savings for consumers in the participating states.

12.1 If a trade union is certified as the bargaining agent of employees in a bargaining unit, the employer shall not discharge or discipline an employee in that bargaining unit without just cause during the period that begins on the date of certification and ends on the earlier of the date on which a first collective agreement is entered into and the date on which the trade union no longer represents the employees in the bargaining unit.

The Trudeau government says talks toward a Canada - China Free Trade Agreement could begin as early as February 2017.

«I think there is potential to the case but it will be very fact specific and revolve around the matter of trade secrets and what the terms were of the employment agreement,» Bryan Sullivan, partner at Early Sullivan, told the E-Commerce Times.

In Washington, the Federal Trade Commission moved to investigate whether Facebook had violated an early agreement to safeguard user data.