Sentences with phrase «international trade rules»

Made up of and governed by member nations, the WTO administers the network of international trade rules currently in place.

«China violates international trade rules all over the world,» says James Rubin, former assistant secretary of state for public affairs.

Under international trade rules, a country can slap duties on imports that are intentionally sold at below - market prices or that are unfairly subsidized by the exporter's government.

Pot remains illegal under U.S. federal law as well as international trade rules.

Section 301 is the latest obscure trade law to be utilized by the Trump Administration, which gives the U.S. government the ability to retaliate when it finds that a foreign government is not following international trade rules, including refusal to open its markets to U.S. goods and services.

Djimon Hounsou — Djimon Honsou has been an avid supporter of Oxfam since traveling to Mali in 2005 and meeting struggling farmers who were negatively affected by international trade rules.

March 30, 2017 • Last month the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on a question with millions of dollars at stake: Is the Snuggie a blanket with sleeves or a sleeved garment that looks like a blanket?

The unfairness (the inequity) of the situation is also a sore point and the cause of much of our frustration — large parts of the «developing» world are already struggling with the concurrent forces of increasing poverty, energy and food shortages, and privatisation of the commons — consequences of unfair international trade rules.

European officials have said the U.S. tariffs violate international trading rules, and they have threatened to retaliate with levies on iconic American brands such as Harley Davidson motorcycles and Kentucky bourbon.

The benefit of this would not only be to pre-empt any such externally imposed carbon tariff on China's exports (under international trade rules, a carbon tariff on goods from a country with a carbon tax would probably be illegal), but it would also allow the Chinese government to collect revenue of such a tax rather than to see it go to a foreign government.

According to Chinese state media, Vice Premier Liu He told U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday that an eight - month, U.S. investigation into whether China engages in unfair trade practices was in itself a violation of international trade rules.

«The investments and contribution programs mentioned in Brazil's petition are in full compliance with all WTO and international trade rules,» company spokesman Simon Letendre said in a statement.

Days after the deal was signed in 2006 the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled the U.S. tariffs and duties illegal, ordering the U.S. government to give back all of Canada's money.

Despite these costs, poor countries have subscribed to international trade rules and have slowly but steadily opened their markets in those economic sectors (especially manufactures and services) where industrialized countries have much to gain.

«International corporations are subject to domestic and international trade rules and treaties, but when it comes to what a country does with its land, that strikes at the core of national sovereignty,» Wolford said.

The Geneva - based World Trade Organization, based ruled against China this past July on its previous tax measure of preferential tax rates for domestically produced cars violated international trade rules.

The international trade rules already permit nations to ban imports of products that fail to meet certain standards.

If we stand a chance of surviving on this planet, Klein says we not only need to rewrite the international trade rules that have governed our economies for the last few decades; we also need «managed de-growth,» or more dramatically, «The Great Transition.»

Argentina's import restrictions violate international trade rules and must be removed.

International trade rules and regulations can change on a daily basis, and some of those changes can be quite dramatic.

Today, however, many of the existing specialised international tribunals have been created in the context of a particular regime, such as one which promotes, for example, the liberalisation of international trade rules, the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, or the economic integration of a regional organisation.