Sentences with phrase «erecting new trade barriers»

Why risk losing jobs and potentially erecting new trade barriers by exiting when this could compound our economic woes?

The U.S. and Mexico already have relatively free trade, so absent gunboat diplomacy to force Mexicans to buy more U.S. exports, all the U.S. can really do is restrict the amount of imports from Mexico by erecting new trade barriers.

Word of the announcement came as the Trump administration on Wednesday warned that it would vigorously defend U.S. national interests against «hostile» powers such as China and Russia, vowing to use «all available tools» to combat unfair practices - a sign that the president may be preparing to erect new trade barriers.

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At a time when the world economy faces a nasty downturn and protectionist pressures across the developed world are mounting, it's depressing to see the Bruges Group giving succour to those who want to erect new barriers to world trade.