Sentences with phrase «for trade sanctions»

The conservation and welfare groups have identified specific Icelandic companies as potential targets for trade sanctions, including major seafood industry players directly tied to Iceland's whaling industry.

The bill's earlier version called for trade sanctions against governments that persecute religious groups.

Not exact matches

Rightly or wrongly, many Chinese officials feel China has done its share and more in restricting trade with North Korea — only for Trump to push ahead with tough trade sanctions against China anyway.

Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia - Pacific at futures brokerage OANDA, said new sanctions against Tehran «could...

From a legal and regulatory standpoint, sanction - busting and lax regulatory compliance are very different sins than intellectual property theft and discriminatory trade polices (which Trump often cites as the main justifications for his threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports).

«I'm going to draft a sanctions package to send to the president for his strong consideration, that anybody that wants to do trade or business with them would be prevented from doing trade or business with us,» Mnuchin explained.

On top of that, the trade sanctions have increased the living costs and made the lives harder for the people.

Even the newer packages of sanctions might quickly be dropped, dialogue increased and later foreign direct investment secured if the potential for sustained de-escalation and increased trade was deemed rich enough.

Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.

Trump will also push for a trade - focused strategy of North Korean deterrence, encouraging China to enact and enforce stronger sanctions.

«Overall, we continue to trade a waiting game for the U.S. decision on Iran, waiting to have sanction headlines trigger some frenzied buying,» said Olivier Jakob, managing director of energy consultancy PetroMatrix.

«There is every reason to believe that businesses need to be prepared for a series of trade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018, and sooner rather than later,» Steve Okun, president for the Asia Business Trade Association, told CNBC in an email after the addtrade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018, and sooner rather than later,» Steve Okun, president for the Asia Business Trade Association, told CNBC in an email after the addTrade Association, told CNBC in an email after the address.

But, «there is every reason to believe that businesses need to be prepared for a series of trade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018,» another financial expert told CNBC.

Unlike other provisions of the official agreement, the currency provision is not enforceable through panels that typically settle disputes, or through officially sanctioned retaliation, the usual method for policing trade deals.

Commodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further price gains.

The Commerce Department will impose the tariffs under a rarely used law that allows emergency trade sanctions for «national security.»

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

The next round of trade sanctions will likely focus entirely on China, and be levied under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for penalties of IP theft and technological crtrade sanctions will likely focus entirely on China, and be levied under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for penalties of IP theft and technological crTrade Act of 1974 for penalties of IP theft and technological crimes.

NO SANCTIONS: Last year, Wolf found it a hard sell to get Congress to restrict trade as a way of punishing the Chinese government for its abuse of religious people (CT, June 16, 1997, p. 54).

Either we are willing to LET GO of our own ways, desires, lusts, ambitions, instincts, thoughts and trade that in for A LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS and HIS HOLINESS or we are willing to LET GO of His Holiness, His Salvation, His Sacrifice, HIs Redemption, His Sanction to continue on in our own way, our own lives, our own thoughts, our own lusts, our own ambitions.

It held that talking about «political freedom is not a sound argument for attempting to use the blunt instrument of trade sanctions to win democratic rule for China.

A Devon MP has called for an end to Russian trade sanctions which are «disproportionately» hitting UK pork and dairy farmers.

Julie Clarke and Mirko Bagaric, «The Desirability of Criminal Penalties for Breaches of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act» (2003) 31 Australian Business Law Review 192 - 209 Abstract: Following the introduction of criminal sanctions, including jail terms, for hard core cartelisation in the United Kingdom, the Dawson Review has recently recommended that criminal penalties be introduced in Australia for individuals and corporations found to have engaged in hard core cartels.

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

However, more serious reactions, like trade sanctions or military retaliation, would further escalate the situation and might cause more harm than good for the country.

However, in this case don't you think there is a clear case for some form of sanction at least when it comes to the arms trade?

New York regulators are requiring banks to maintain programs to monitor and filter transactions for possible money - laundering and transactions with entities and nations subject to trade sanctions.

France's largest bank, BNP Paribas, has agreed to pay nearly $ 9 billion to resolve criminal allegations that it processed transactions for clients in Sudan and other blacklisted countries in violation of U.S. trade sanctions.

South Korea has filed $ 711 million worth of annual trade sanctions with the WTO as a response, but China's adherence to WTO rules has been questionable since it joined and it has only filed for a discussion with the US.

BNP Paribas reached the $ 8.83 billion overall settlement with federal and state authorities for violating U.S. trade sanctions and conducting dollar transactions for clients in Sudan, Iran and Cuba.

The Associated Press reported in early July that the bank violated U.S. trade sanctions by processing transactions for clients in Cuba, Iran and Sudan.

This practice is sanctioned by the World Trade Organization in certain cases — for example, to ensure affordable medicine prices — to protect public health.

This weekend's agreement by nearly 200 members of the Montreal Protocol will be legally binding, inviting trade sanctions for countries that fail to live up to their obligations.

For example, in late August, the US imposed trade sanctions on China for two years, after concluding that Peking had shipped ballistic - missile technology to PakistFor example, in late August, the US imposed trade sanctions on China for two years, after concluding that Peking had shipped ballistic - missile technology to Pakistfor two years, after concluding that Peking had shipped ballistic - missile technology to Pakistan.

Maduro hopes that it will raise hard currency for the cash - strapped country, and help ease trade with foreign suppliers in the face of US sanctions imposed last year.

Their business practices fall under the watchful eyes of the much respected CySEC regulating agency which has a strict code of conduct its members must follow in order to be sanctioned by them for trading.

The Steam Marketplace offers a sanctioned, purely digital marketplace for players looking to buy, sell or trade their Steam items with other players, and when CS: GO's skins debuted, the Steam Marketplace exploded in popularity.

The notion of turning coal into liquid fuels on a big scale has simmered for decades, but only the trade sanctions against apartheid in South Africa resulted in anyone reviving the Nazi - era technology — until now.

Moreover, the transparency of a carbon tax offers potential for international linkage via World Trade Organization sanctioned Border Tax Adjustments.

Moreover, Iceland faces an imminent Pelly Certification and possible trade sanctions by the United States for continuing to defy the IWC commercial whaling ban.

Once the US gives up on its STUPID demands over Crimea a trade of lifting sanctions in return for Russian cooperation in the Ukraine could be worked out.

In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.

Trade specialists warn that relying on trade sanctions would open the door to protectionism, which is always lurking in the shadows looking for excuses to keep out foreign goods and servTrade specialists warn that relying on trade sanctions would open the door to protectionism, which is always lurking in the shadows looking for excuses to keep out foreign goods and servtrade sanctions would open the door to protectionism, which is always lurking in the shadows looking for excuses to keep out foreign goods and services.

The United States certified Iceland under Pelly for its special permit whaling but opted not to pursue trade sanctions.

Iceland's escalating exports of whale products under reservation, to non-parties, illegally diminishes the effectiveness of CITES» trade controls and are grounds for Pelly certification and sanctions.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prodtrade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prodTrade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prodtrade in whale products.

The Center For Biological Diversity and Sea Turtle Restoration Project have petitioned the United States government to impose trade sanctions on Mexico for failing to abide by international sea turtle conservation agreemenFor Biological Diversity and Sea Turtle Restoration Project have petitioned the United States government to impose trade sanctions on Mexico for failing to abide by international sea turtle conservation agreemenfor failing to abide by international sea turtle conservation agreements.

«These types of provisions have already been interpreted in the [World Trade Organization] context to provide regulatory space for governments to regulate in a way which isn't sanctioned by agreements,» he adds.

In Europe, the Council of the European Union by its Decision of 28 February and Council Regulation (EU) 204/2011 made on 2 March 2011 imposed an arms embargo and targeted sanctions going further than UNSCR 1970/2011 by prohibiting trade with Libya in equipment which might be used for internal repression as well as a visa ban on a wider group of persons.

Sullivan & Cromwell has acted as counsel for BNP Paribas as the bank agreed to pay a record $ 9bn (# 5.1 bn) settlement for breaching US trade sanctions.