Sentences with phrase «former trade economist»

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The Republican presidential front - runner's campaign pledges to impose 45 percent tariffs on all imports from China and 35 percent on many goods from Mexico would spark financial market turmoil and possibly even a recession, former trade negotiators, trade lawyers, economists and business executives told Reuters.

Exports from Canada to the U.S. could be subjected to a maximum tariff of 3.5 per cent under the World Trade Organization's «most favoured nation» provision, to which Canada would almost certainly respond with its own tariffs on imports from the U.S. «For Canada, under WTO rules, we'd have to put up barriers with the U.S., and the retaliation would be one of the biggest sources of negative impact for us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist at Canada's trade department who now is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), notes that if Trump blows up NAFTA, Canada's trade with the U.S. would be dictated by the terms of their original free - trade agreement from 1989.

Phil Levy, a trade expert at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former Bush administration economist, told CNN Money that the Commerce Department's steel and aluminum tariffs are «raw protectionism in search of an excuse» and that the national security excuse is a sort of Pandora's Box on trade protectionism.

The list includes a former Stanford dean who is an accounting professor, the former CEO of an insurance company, the former CEO of an international bank, a hedge fund manager, a prominent Asian financier, and an economist who is the former head of the U.S. government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The report was led by Dave Park, an independent economist and former Chief Economist for The Vancouver Board economist and former Chief Economist for The Vancouver Board Economist for The Vancouver Board of Trade.

Tom Luongo is a former research chemist by trade and an Austrian Economist by study and a market analyst by choice.

Former Deputy Chief Economist, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Director and Principal, CiuriakConsulting Inc..

Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, is former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

The auto trade deficit with Mexico represents almost two - thirds of Canada's overall auto trade deficit of $ 18.5 - billion (Canadian), said Jim Stanford, former economist for Unifor, which represents workers at the Detroit Three's Canadian plants.

A recent study by the former UK Foreign Office chief economist Gregor Irwin estimates that the renegotiation of Britain's trading relations with the EU upon exit alone would take about ten years.

Joseph Aldy, an economist and former special assistant to President Barack Obama on energy policy, says the approach would be «more politically palatable» than cap - and - trade, which is a nonstarter in Washington, D.C., these days.

The workshop and roundtable — sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation — featured a dream team of economists and legal experts who had conducted extensive research on the SO2 allowance - trading system, as well as leaders of non-governmental organizations and former government officials who had guided the formulation and passage of the CAAA.

Edwin Clark, former senior economist with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, observes that tradable permits «require establishing complex regulatory frameworks, defining the permits, establishing the rules for trades, and preventing people from acting without permits.»

Lord Stern, the former World Bank chief economist whose landmark report on the economics of climate change warned the world risked plunging into economic depression if action was not taken urgently on greenhouse gases, said carbon trading was a «key plank» in dealing with climate change.

Harvard economist and former Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Chief Economist Robert Stavins claims that the low carbon prices of the ETS, and its little sister cap and trade system in the US Northeast, known as RGGI, prove not that they're failing but rather that they are working aseconomist and former Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Chief Economist Robert Stavins claims that the low carbon prices of the ETS, and its little sister cap and trade system in the US Northeast, known as RGGI, prove not that they're failing but rather that they are working asEconomist Robert Stavins claims that the low carbon prices of the ETS, and its little sister cap and trade system in the US Northeast, known as RGGI, prove not that they're failing but rather that they are working as planned.

This may come as a surprise to those who think that California's cap on carbon emissions would prevent an increase in emissions, and so I contacted UC - Berkeley economist Severin Borenstein, a former advisor to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on California's cap and trade program, to get his opinion.

Sandor is a former Chicago Board of Trade chief economist and vice president.

British Economist, Journalist and former advisor to the World Trade Organization, Philippe Legrain, said «Most innovations nowadays come not from individuals, but from groups of talented people sparking off each other — and foreigners with different ideas, perspectives and experiences add something extra to the mix.