Sentences with phrase «in trade treaties»

So it is not clear how one should best enforce rules in trade treaties about the legal framework for e-commerce.

Not exact matches

Secretary Clinton may try to re-negotiate environmental and labour issues in the treaty, but let's not typify a knee jerk reaction since she has publicly committed to find common ground and purpose to boost the US economy and promote free trade with like - minded partners.

These names are viewed as non-tariff barriers, which matter because they are the last significant friction in international trade, which the Transatlantic Investment Partnership treaty aims to lower.

Chile granted Bolivia trading access to the Pacific through its territory in a 1904 treaty in exchange for making the territorial loss permanent.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, named to cabinet a day before the finalized treaty was made public, reiterated that the Liberals believe in trade, but she was careful to note the deal was negotiated by the Conservative governTrade Minister Chrystia Freeland, named to cabinet a day before the finalized treaty was made public, reiterated that the Liberals believe in trade, but she was careful to note the deal was negotiated by the Conservative governtrade, but she was careful to note the deal was negotiated by the Conservative government.

Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, also is seeking a new «sunset clause» that would require the treaty to be renewed every five years, a feature that business groups say would introduce excessive uncertainty in their planning.

In a belated mobilization to save the deal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in recent weeks flooded Capitol Hill with executives from companies that stand to lose lucrative trade preferences if Trump fulfills his threat to withdraw from the treatIn a belated mobilization to save the deal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in recent weeks flooded Capitol Hill with executives from companies that stand to lose lucrative trade preferences if Trump fulfills his threat to withdraw from the treatin recent weeks flooded Capitol Hill with executives from companies that stand to lose lucrative trade preferences if Trump fulfills his threat to withdraw from the treaty.

But the TPP will mark the first time that Canada has accepted trade treaty obligations governing patent linkage, which could interfere with cost - saving reforms.Copyright and trademarks — TPP copyright rules would require far longer terms of copyright protection, based on the U.S. model, and could require protection for controversial practices such as «digital locks,» which allow copyright holders to encrypt software in computerized devices.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a 12 - country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008.

This 4 - page fact sheet provides readers with background on the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12 - country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008.

Do you think their strategy is to use these trade tariffs and potential trade wars as a bargaining chip for trade treaty organization in order to get the U.S. a better deal?

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the US is not looking for mere tweaks in the existing treaty, but substantial changes that assure balance and reciprocity.

Because of the resistance of countries of the South at the INTO Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996, the issue of the foreign - investment treaty was assigned to a working group «to examine the relationship between trade and investment».

The US has, for reasons of its own (including fears that the treaty can pose a challenge to such laws as the Helms - Burton law and the D'Amato law which seek to penalize foreign corporations which trade with or invest in Cuba, Iran or Libya), declared that it would not accept the treaty in its present form.

Gochicoa went on to state: «In a free - trade treaty like the one we are looking at now, the only way to protect one's brand and quality is with an official Mexican standard and a designation of origin.»

However, trade agreements are not traditionally ratified as «treaties» in the U.S. (perhaps due to the high supermajority needed); they are done as «congressional - executive agreements», which go through Congress as regular legislation, subject to all the normal lawmaking processes, including amendments.

Before the beginning of the Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2005, the United States had a trade surplus with all nations involved with the trTrade Agreement in 2005, the United States had a trade surplus with all nations involved with the trtrade surplus with all nations involved with the treaty.

This shift in global trade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trtrade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trTrade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment treaty.

But if instead the eurozone want more powers and treaty change to prop up the euro, in return for that we should insist on bringing back powers from this country so we can once again be an independent country trading with Europe but governing ourselves.»

Now in government, and indeed, in charge of Bis which houses, separately, both the arms export promotion and licensing units, Cable is hiding behind the proposed international arms trade treaty to still any moral qualms.

The extradition treaty signed after the 2001 World Trade Centre attacks was ratified by parliament in 2003, but congress has yet to do this.

As the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, there is debate as to whether the UK should remain in the EU Customs Union (or in a bilateral customs union with the EU, which I believe is almost the same in practice), or leave so that it can negotiate its own trade treaties.

It is a blunder for example, I repeat, that President Muhammadu Buhari stayed away from the Extra-ordinary session of the AU in Kigali on the African Continental Free Trade Area Treaty, the same treaty that had been approved and endorsed by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), just because some unionists screamed that they were not consulted.

A former Ken Livingstone adviser, an anti-Transatlantic trade treaty activist, Lewisham's deputy mayor and a former mayoral candidate have been shortlisted by Labour for the election to succeed Heidi Alexander in Lewisham East.

Reviving tensions between the two coalition parties after Mr Cameron vetoed a treaty to help rescue the euro at this month's Brussels summit, Mr Huhne warned the isolationist approach favoured by Tory sceptics would be disastrous for British jobs and trade and foreign investment in this country.

An international treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973), known by its acronym, CITES, also addresses this problem.

The treaty has two appendices for listing species: Appendix I results in an almost complete ban on commercial international trade; Appendix II requires all international trade in that species be monitored and subject to permits.

A few years earlier, Brackett had worked on the implementation in Canada of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and became familiar with their permits and treaties.

The jaguar is protected by an international treaty which bans all trade in any part of the animal.

IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.

The treaty puts off for 2 years the issue that kept the United States and European Union at each other's throats until early morning in Montreal: whether to legislate the trade of GMOs that are not likely to propagate in the environment.

Throw in trade routes, treaties, and Jar Jar Binks and you derail any exciting ideas that are out there.

The US since after WW II through different treaties has urged the world to keep its financial reserves in USD, with all the international trade and transactions also being made in USD.

Ordinary dividends on stocks of non-U.S. companies qualify to be taxed at a lower 20 % maximum tax rate if the stock is traded on a U.S. exchange, the corporation is headquartered in a country where the United States has a tax treaty, or the corporation is incorporated in a U.S. possession.

Sadly, the actuaries above me, who had signed the treaties before I was employed by AIG, forgot to inform the investment department that the treaty limited the trading of around 20 % of the bonds of the company in ways that would be mimicked 10 years later in CDOs.

«His threat to rip up existing treaties and impose new tariffs — even if there are limits to what can actually be accomplished under executive authority — would disrupt global supply chains, jeopardizing the integrated international trade system that has been the key foundation of decades of global growth and prosperity,» warned Stephen Rogers, an investment strategist at Investors Group, in a white paper released before Americans cast their ballots.

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Trade treaties can be signed, allies can be formed, taxes can be controlled, and money can be invested in research efforts to strengthen military or economic aspects of your rule.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Kozan moved at age 28 to the treaty port of Yokohama, a former fishing village that by 1870 was a burgeoning center for international trade.

Many seasoned participants in the process, both negotiators and observers, foresee a sustained process that is more akin to decades - long trade talks than to previous environmental treaties like the Montreal Protocol cutting ozone - destroying substances.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

This week, I will urge the delegates in Bali to adopt a bold mandate for a treaty that establishes a universal global cap on emissions and uses the market in emissions trading to efficiently allocate resources to the most effective opportunities for speedy reductions.

But in late 2004, Russia decided to pass the treaty — unexpectedly, and as part of a move to have its application for World Trade Organisation membership accepted by the European Union.

As the EIA explains, even though the global trade in rosewood furniture had been restricted under a global treaty agreement since 2013, Chinese demand for antique rosewood has actually increased with rising prosperity.

But we do have world treaties that are effective, most notably in the definition of currencies and trade, to which only North Korea and Myanmar are holdouts, I believe.

Although the mercury treaty allowed countries to trade and use mercury in ASGM, stopping the mercury flow to the market and to the ASGM sites is the key to prevent the future Minamata tragedies from happening in more than 70 countries.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

People in the USA complain about the illegals from Mexico but trade treaties caused 75 % of the Mexican farmers to lose their farms.