Sentences with phrase «largest trading nation»

The container ships allude to the fact that by 2013 China had surpassed the United States as the largest trading nation in the world.

Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how it will alter — the physical and social landscape of the country (in particular, the socioeconomic divide between urban and rural areas).

TUESDAY, JUNE 9Opening: «DE / CONSTRUCTING CHINA: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection» at Asia Society Museum China has eclipsed the U.S. as the world's largest trading nation, and this exhibition looks back on the way this success has affected — and how... Read More

This compares with China's current rank as the third largest trading nation in the world, accounting for around 6 per cent of world merchandise trade.

Not exact matches

It is the only publicly traded restaurant to have achieved these ratios and is the nation's largest restaurant purchaser of sustainable and humanely reared meats.

The Corporate Cupcake After a slightly uneasy night's sleep (I had overdone it that evening at Baked & Wired, a well - entrenched Georgetown cupcake establishment), I start the first full day of my trip at Crumbs Bake Shop in downtown D.C. Crumbs is the nation's largest cupcake company, with 35 locations and $ 31 million in annual revenue, and also the most corporate, with plans to trade shares on the Nasdaq starting in May.

It is a competitive marketplace and they are listening to their customers,» says Elise Brooks, communications director for the Financial Services Rountable, a trade group whose membership is limited to 100 of the largest financial services companies in the nation.

Insider trading remains a rampant problem on Wall Street, with new research finding that the nation's largest financial institutions pocket hefty sums with the help of nonpublic information.

On trade, Ross lines up closely with Trump regarding his opposition to the landmark Trans - Pacific Partnership multinational trade agreement between 12 Pacific Rim nations, calling the deal «horrible» and adding the administration will be skeptical of larger regional trade deals, instead preferring deals with individual nations.

Initiated by former President George H.W. Bush and signed into by former President Bill Clinton in 1994, NAFTA has helped boost U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico, the nation's two largest trading partners.

They represented the boards of trade and chambers of commerce in cities as large as Montreal, the nation's economic and cultural hub, and as small as Elmira, a newly incorporated town of 2,500 in southern Ontario.

Some of the nation's largest hospital networks saw their shares soar in Monday trading after House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican leadership pulled the AHCA at the behest of President Donald Trump.

When President Bill Clinton signed the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in December 1993, he predicted that «NAFTA will tear down trade barriers between our three nations, create the world's largest trade zone, and create 200,000 jobs in [the U.S.] by 1995 aTrade Agreement (NAFTA) in December 1993, he predicted that «NAFTA will tear down trade barriers between our three nations, create the world's largest trade zone, and create 200,000 jobs in [the U.S.] by 1995 atrade barriers between our three nations, create the world's largest trade zone, and create 200,000 jobs in [the U.S.] by 1995 atrade zone, and create 200,000 jobs in [the U.S.] by 1995 alone.

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

There also were fears of retaliation by other nations against EU carriers and larger trade wars.

Prior to joining EFH, Young was executive vice president of finance and markets at Exelon Corporation, one of the nation's largest electric companies, with responsibilities for the finance functions and the trading and marketing organization, the Power Team.

BOISE, Idaho & CAMP HILL, Pa., February 20, 2018 — Albertsons Companies, one of the nation's largest grocery retailers, and Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD), one of the nation's leading drugstore chains, announced a definitive merger agreement under which privately held Albertsons Companies will merge with publicly traded Rite Aid.

The US was also a debt ridden, debtor nation that had large trade deficits.

At the same time, capital flows have grown to become several times larger than trade flows, with merchandise trade only accounting for just over 1 percent of daily foreign - exchange trading volume, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developtrade flows, with merchandise trade only accounting for just over 1 percent of daily foreign - exchange trading volume, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Developtrade only accounting for just over 1 percent of daily foreign - exchange trading volume, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and DevelopTrade and Development.

Vietnam is Canada's largest trading partner among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

With more than $ 280 billion under management, CSIM is one of the nation's largest asset management companies, the third - largest provider of retail index funds, and a top 10 provider of exchange - traded funds (ETFs) and money market funds.3 Aguilar joined CSIM in 2011 and is responsible for equity and asset allocation mutual funds, ETFs, and separately managed accounts.

The moves threaten to start a trade war between world's largest economies; U.S. stocks fall after the two nations trade barbs.

The administration reiterated the president's intention to pursue new trade deals in talks with individual nations rather than large groups.

President Draghi said the ECB was correct in its policies, and current and trade surplus nations were at fault for the continued economic malaise for not embarking on large fiscal stimulus programs.

Depending on whom you ask, the agents of globalization vary widely: multinational corporations like General Motors, Nike and Coca - Cola (the largest employer in sub-Saharan Africa); the United Nations and the thousands of nongovernmental organizations; the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization; or CNN and Disney.

America's massive «military» budgets, still on the rise, are beginning to threaten the U.S. with bankruptcy, given that its trade and fiscal deficits already easily make it the world's largest net debtor nation.

Early bird registration is now open for the 2017 Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade Show — the largest and most influential gathering of on - premise bar and nightlife professionals in the nation, taking place March 27 - 29, 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

The Humane Society of the United States has filed supplemental complaints with both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission regarding false and misleading statements being made by Seaboard Foods — the nation's third - largest pork producer and a supplier to Walmart — in response to a recent undercover investigation video of one of the company's Oklahoma pig breeding facilities.

The National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show is the largest and longest - running trade show in the nation for fiery foods & BBQ.

The United States Trade Tasting event is the largest event of its kind in the nation.

Nation's largest food makers» trade group, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, is donating big money to oppose I - 522, but on whose behalf?

As a dietitian, I am embarrassed that the nation's largest nutrition trade organization maintains partnerships with companies that contribute to our nation's diet - related health problems.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

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.

Their underlying belief appears to be that Britain — the world's fifth largest economy and a nation with a great history of trading across the globe — would be an economic backwater if it wasn't for Brussels taking control of our trade deals.

In 2002 the Times published a story accusing the National Educational Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the nation, of teaching students that the policies of the U.S. government were partly to blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

SHANGHAI — China will soon begin its grand experiment to rein in climate change, using the nation's regionwide carbon markets as the building blocks for what could become the world's second - largest emissions trading market.

Lansing, MI About Blog Michigan Retailers Association is the unified voice of retailing in Michigan and the nation's largest state trade association of general merchandise retailers.

The $ 455 - million sale will transfer ownership of the nation's sixth - largest school publisher to Harper & Row Publishers Inc., a firm best known as a trade - book and college - textbook house.

New York City principals and assistant principals have agreed to trade in some of their long - standing job security for substantial pay raises, setting the stage for a new era of school management and accountability in the nation's largest school district.

As Fordham's 2008 report on Catholic schools showed, the nation's largest religious denomination was taking steps to slow the decline; borrowing many of the tricks of the trade from charters, religious orders were forming the equivalent of CMOs, operating networks of schools, and doing sophisticated fundraising.

Associated General Contractors is one of the nation's largest trade associations for the construction industry.

About the Chicago Automobile Trade Association Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is one of the nation's largest metropolitan dealer organizations.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (Barnes & Noble or the Company), one of the nation's largest booksellers, 1 is a leading content, commerce and technology company providing customers easy and convenient access to trade books, textbooks, magazines, newspapers and other content across its multi-channel distribution platform.

Our largest trade shows — London Book Fair, BookExpo America, Frankfurt Book Fair — have always been internationally, not least thanks to their rights and translation centers and special - guest - nation programs.

Ingram Advance Magazine — $ 100 Advance, the flagship trade publication of the Ingram Book Group, the nation's largest book distributor, is sent monthly to thousands of booksellers and libraries all over the world.

One of the smallest nations in the world, New Zealand, has become a key trading partner with one of the largest, China.

Questions remain about how the market will react Monday, particularly to Lehman's plan to wind down its trading operations, and whether other companies, like A.I.G. and Washington Mutual, the nation's largest savings and loan, might falter.

Oneby one, different Tulsa pet businesses placed orders, and Lisa's business savvy to exhibit at the nation's largest pet trade show, H.H. Backer, landed her an order from Harrods in London that to this day is renewed three to four times a year.

The nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization, we are driving transformational change in the U.S. and around the world by combating large - scale cruelties such as puppy mills, animal fighting, factory farming, seal slaughter, horse cruelty, captive hunts and the wildlife trade.