Sentences with phrase «global trading nation»

A great, global trading nation that is respected around the world and strong, confident and united at home.

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Either an alternative global reserve currency will be established, or nations will institute dual - currency trading: one value for real trade, another value for foreign exchange.

One CEO spoke of the importance of establishing international partnerships beyond the U.S. «Spreading our global trade amongst other strong nation groups is essential to break the headlock the U.S. has on our economy.»

Global consumption of avocados, now a $ 3 billion industry, has doubled in the last decade, and a third of the 3.8 million tonne annual harvest is currently traded internationally, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.

If Brexit - like sentiment in other nations leads to restrictions on the flow of trade and labor, he adds, «that is going to create greater uncertainty and volatility» — at a time when some commentators believe that global stock and bond prices are overdue for a tumble.

It's a poster child for how Canadian businesses can tap into the surging growth in South - South trading — trade between developing nations — one of the biggest growth opportunities in 21st - century global commerce.

The removal of trade barriers has played a significant role in reducing global poverty and encouraging peace between nations, achievements that could be eroded by tit - for - tat backsliding.

That organization provides a forum for negotiating further reductions of trade barriers, settling trade disputes, and enforcing the agreed global trade rules among nations.

«Perennial rail service challenges have impacted our competitiveness, our national supply chain's long - term economic sustainability and Canada's global reputation as a trading nation,» the company wrote in its briefing to the committee reviewing Bill C - 49, the government's modernization of the Transportation Act.

The United Nations Council on Trade and Development's recent report on foreign direct investment trends and policies shows that global investment inflows are slowing down.

But rather than sitting on the sidelines and complaining, Canada can have more influence by working with other trading nations to shape and harmonize global IP laws.

The industrialized nations have steadfastly refused to open up trade in farm goods in an effort to protect farmers from being displaced by global trade.

The World Trade Organization is the outcome of these negotiations; and nations, including the United States, have granted extensive sovereignty to this organization to overrule national laws, and laws of subnational political units, deemed in restraint of global tTrade Organization is the outcome of these negotiations; and nations, including the United States, have granted extensive sovereignty to this organization to overrule national laws, and laws of subnational political units, deemed in restraint of global tradetrade.

The new trade - related intellectual properties regime in industrialised nations is an unprecedented privatisation of knowledge, which has also encouraged the biopiracy of indigenous knowledge and resources on a global scale.

Though a few nations did retaliate against a few selected products, Smoot - Hawley played only a modest role in the global movements back and forth between protectionism and free trade.

The United States has trade arrangements with several nations to facilitate the global exchange of organic products.

In an assessment of 124 countries threatened by a biosecurity invasion, Australia was classified as «high risk» and ranked 15th for the potential cost of an invasion (US$ 7.8 billion) based upon the likelihood of arrival and establishment of a new pest.87 With the USA and China identified as the biggest threats to global biosecurity due to their existing pests, Australia's high levels of trade with these nations and comparatively pest free status significantly increases the risk.

By 2004, a World Bank report, «Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand» substantiated that structural shifts in the global industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade prGlobal Supply and Demand» substantiated that structural shifts in the global industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade prglobal industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade product.

From 2002 to 2012, Australia's share of global dairy trade has fallen from 15 per cent to 7 per cent and the nation's milk production has fallen from 12.3 billion litres to 9.2 billion litres.

WineTech 2015, the nation's flagship wine sector trade show, will address national and global influences on demand, capability and competitiveness in a sector that is vitally important to the economy and jobs in agriculture, tourism and hospitality.

WineTech 2015, the nation's flagship wine sector trade show, will address national and global -LSB-...]

Davide Campari - Milano S.p.A., together with its affiliates («Gruppo Campari»), is a major player in the global beverage sector, trading in over 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

It has a global distribution reach, trading in over 190 nations around the world with leading positions in Europe and the Americas.

This is a particular vision of American power and leadership in the 21st century: no longer the «indispensable nation» tout simple as global policeman or responsible stakeholder, the US now seeks to become indispensable as trade partner, much as China is today.

In addition, Mr Blair will tomorrow set out his belief in global institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), although the spokesman noted he would explain how they «need to be updated from how they were designed immediately after world war II.to deal with modern challenges».

Although in the past conflict has often arisen between economically interdependent nations (viz. the previous peak of global trade in 1914), the China - ASEAN relationship is one of fundamental interdependence of production, visible in the prevalence of international supply chaining in manufacturing processes, rather than solely trade and labour movement [i].

Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to cut power plant greenhouse gas emissions across the region by 65 percent by 2030 through the nation's first cap - and - trade program to reduce carbon contributing to global climate change.

Mr. Meeks asserted that the TPP, which would ease trade barriers and a host of regulations between the United States, Australia and several Asian and Latin American nations, is necessary in order to ensure American leverage in global commerce and to expand and preserve New York jobs tied to the international economy.

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The systemic sources of the UK's influence — its permanent seat on the UN Security Council, its membership of NATO and (still) the EU, its position as a leading trading nation and major global economy, and still comparatively large defence expenditure — remain in place, albeit diminished by five years of economic stagnation.

That is why it is time for Britain to get out into the world and rediscover its role as a great, global, trading nation.

A great, global, trading nation.

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

About 90 percent of global trade in goods travels by ship, and the vessels together emit about as much greenhouse gases as Germany, the nation with the sixth - highest emissions in the world.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

3) Given the fall in global trade, export - driven nations are getting hit hard.

Signing a memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of the United Nations Global Conference on Jobs & Inclusive Growth, the destinations pledged to increase collaboration in tourism, trade, sports, culture, and education.

This year, the SLIMMA nations remain the most important to the global trade after the BRICS.

«Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to guide it through the years and create a dominant global empire in the age of exploration, providing unprecedented freedom through the use of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy to let you rule your nation however you see fit.

New York City is one of the most iconic cities in the United States and one of the major global cities of the world due to its important business, financial, trading and cultural organizations, such as Wall Street, United Nations, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and Broadway theaters with their (in that time innovative) electric lighting.

We'll call on all nations to help spark a global clean energy revolution by agreeing immediately to eliminate trade barriers on clean energy goods and services.

This body was created by the world's nations in 2012 to elevate deliberations around global environmental goals to a level similar to those on poverty, health, security, trade and the like.

Of course, it is possible that nations will agree to expand the global cap - and - trade systems foreseen under the Kyoto climate treaty.

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In 1989, EIA's groundbreaking exposé revealed rampant elephant poaching and a booming global ivory trade, perpetrated by a network of criminals and corrupt officials in Africa and in importing nations.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

«Why, when the United Nations IPCC is totally refuted, when Al Gore is totally discredited, when man - made global warming is totally debunked, when passing a global - warming cap - and - trade bill is totally shot down, why is this book necessary?»