Sentences with phrase «huge tariffs on»

President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, resigned Tuesday in what was widely viewed as a protest against the president's plan to impose huge tariffs on steel and aluminum imports into the US.

The president - elect has threatened to slap huge tariffs on Chinese imports, which could trigger a trade war.

This is perhaps the most timely driver, considering President Donald Trump's recent announcement that he'll seek huge tariffs on steel and aluminum, and his subsequent comment that «trade wars are good.»

He warns that a huge tariff on imports could be counterproductive for the U.S. economy.

Not exact matches

Harper says the Liberals passed up on a chance to renew the softwood lumber agreement in exchange for supporting the Trans - Pacific Partnership, and he says their subsidies to Bombardier set the stage for huge tariffs today.

A report from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development concluded that a Doha agreement could cost developing countries huge losses in tariff revenue, four times as much as any benefits they might gain.

Generating steel jobs through punitive tariffs is already a questionable policy (more on that in a minute), but what's clear is that if Trump pulls the trigger on this, it could generate a huge wave of economic instability across the world.

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

«The volume of trade between [the US and China] is obviously huge and what the tariffs are actually on is pretty small, so I don't think we're going to see a big escalation.»

Britain offers a huge pool of knowledge and skills supporting innovation, therefore we would strongly oppose the introduction of tariffs as they restrict trade and ultimately have a detrimental effect on innovation, which is driven by the reinvestment of profits.

There is a lot at stake as the UK is the world's second largest wine importer and the loss of tariff - free trade could have a huge impact on the wine market.

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

Excluding EU fishing vessels from the UK is very likely to result in the EU slapping down high tariffs on fish, causing huge damage to the fishing industry and coastal communities in the UK.

CEO Mark Fields spoke about the potential 35 percent tariff at the Los Angeles Auto Show and acknowledged that it would have a huge impact on not only the auto industry but the whole US economy.

While Jio's tariffs start from Rs 149 per month only, the huge talking point is how users will never have to pay for voice calls, messages or on roaming.

A few weeks later, Bush slapped a 30 percent tariff on many types of imported steel — a huge gift.

Article left out huge elephant in the room: Tesla is the only company that has to pay 25 % import tariff in China, the country that make up more than half of all EV sales on this planet