Sentences with phrase «many trade agreements»

Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said Mexico will respond to the latest U.S. proposals to rework automotive sector rules under a revised North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) when ministers meet next week.

For a couple of decades, a big part of Canada's sales pitch to international investors has been that the North American Free Trade Agreement works as a backdoor to the world's most voracious consumers.

The Trump administration in recent weeks applied tariffs to imports of Canadian lumber, agreed to investigate charges that Bombardier is using government subsidies to sell its new plane at unfair prices, and triggered the legislative process that will lead to a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

«We can not forget that the point of a free - trade agreement is to advantage those within the agreement — not to help outsiders,» Ross wrote at the Washington Post last week.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.

According to the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's smattering of free - trade agreements give it preferential access to countries with a combined gross domestic product of about (US) $ 20 trillion.

With U.S. president Donald Trump vowing to pursue border taxes, renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and implement policies that put «American workers and businesses first,» Canada has reason to be concerned.

«I'm so pleased that the President asked his administration to reengage in these discussions with other TPP countries, and is continuing his work to negotiate a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal.

The government has worked hard to ease barriers at the Canada - US border and harmonize regulations and to expand Canada's portfolio of trade agreements.

As the Trump administration nears a key deadline in its renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a council of private sector executives is urging principals to use portions of the Trans - Pacific Partnership deal scrapped during President Donald Trump's first days in office.

«As I have said, the United States is prepared to negotiate mutually beneficial, bilateral trade agreements with all countries.

But the White House downplayed this latest reversal, pointing to Trump's remarks in Davos, Switzerland in January, where he stressed the need for trade agreements.

President Trump had asked two of his economic advisers to explore rejoining the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement he withdrew from shortly after taking office last year.

Poloz said several forces were restraining Canada's economy, including new mortgage rules, uncertainty about U.S. trade policy and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a range of competitiveness challenges.

The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is an important headwind that will cause executives pause over the months ahead.

The first U.S. — Canada Free Trade Agreement took four years.

That all changed with the North American Free Trade Agreement, when much of the industry, chasing lower wages, moved south.

Neutral reports on the Trump administration's trade policy tend to include a line advising readers that most economists disagree with just about everything that comes out of the mouths of the president, Ross and Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative and leader of the American side at the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

As Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations noted, it is unclear how the North American Free Trade Agreement can be tweaked for one member and fundamentally overhauled for another.

Earlier in the day, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse had told reporters that Trump was reconsidering the withdrawal from the trade agreement, which Obama Administration had negotiated with 11 other Pacific Rim countries to promote free trade by reducing barriers between them.

Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said Mexico will respond to the latest U.S. proposals to rework automotive sector rules under a revised North American Free Trade Agreement when ministers meet next week.

The growth council reckons Canada would be better placed to play such a role, given its nearly completed free - trade agreement with the EU; ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; a multi-ethnic entrepreneurial class; and preferential access to the world's largest economy (Trump willing, of course).

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

Chitchat at Davos last January centered on Trump's controversial campaign pledges to impose a travel ban on a number of predominately Muslim countries, to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement and to build a wall at the Mexican border.

«The most pressing areas where government, business and other stakeholders can find common ground should include tax reform, infrastructure investment, education reform, more favorable trade agreements and a sensible immigration policy.»

South Korea will sign trade agreements with five Central American nations, boosting the Korean automotive and electronics sectors.

Tariff elimination is usually the most talked - about feature of any free trade agreement, but it is only one aspect in CETA.

CNBC's Kayla Tausche reports on comments from U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the trade delegation heading to China.

Further, their role is likely to grow as the U.S. considers trade agreements such as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

President Donald Trump is now on record saying he wants to «speed up» the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

It's unclear if the Trump Administration's efforts would affect cars produced in Canada or Mexico, which are party to the North American Free Trade Agreement along with the United States.

The deal is Canada's most significant and wide - ranging bilateral trade agreement since the Canada-U.S. free trade deal of the late 1980s.

Free - trade agreements benefit society by giving people access to the best stuff and at the cheapest prices.

The EU's position is that only a «standard» free trade agreement will be possible, with «no direct branching in areas like financial services» and only «limited EU commitments to allow cross border provision of services.»

Davis maintains the cash was in exchange for the province giving up minimum processing rules under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement that helped protect fish plant jobs.

«Importantly, the free trade agreement will ensure that the Australian wine industry does not fall behind the liberalisation achieved by its major competitors South Africa and Chile in their deals with the US.»

The U.K. will not «cut and paste» existing European trade agreements once a deal for Brexit has been completed, the country's trade chief told CNBC Tuesday.

Countries such as Canada and India are lining up to do trade agreements with the U.K., according to the country's new government.

«This is really a matter of a trade agreement between two provinces, and it's between the two provinces to work out,» he said.

The deal follows concessions the premier has made toward reaching Canada's Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union.

To give another example beside the excessive transfer of wealth from consumers to farmers, it also prevents Canada from fully participating in free - trade agreements, thus curtailing job - and wealth - creation in industries that could be exporting to other countries.

The U.K. now looks to be seriously contemplating the idea that it could leave the EU without a fully - formed trade agreement with the rest of the bloc.

Xi did not name President - elect Donald Trump by name, nor did he specifically say his comments were directed at the U.S., or for that matter at the U.K., which last year voted to exit EU trade agreements.

So we might have expected the Old Chieftain to make short work of Newfoundland and Labrador's recent gambit to extract $ 280 million from Ottawa in exchange for its co-operation in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union.

«Therefore it should come as no surprise that the only remaining possible withdrawal is a free trade agreement,» he said.

He does not support the recent Trans - Pacific Partnership free trade agreement proposals and frequently criticizes U.S. trade officials.

The more significant of the two orders would give the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative 180 days to identify violations and abuses under U.S. trade agreements and recommend solutions.

Whereas, the U.K.'s priorities are protecting the trade agreements and the trade relationships that the U.K. can take advantage of,» Nandini Ramakrishnan, global market strategist at JP Morgan, told CNBC on Wednesday.

Morneau's comments came after he met with private sector economists in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade Agreement to global economic uncertainty ahead of the federal budget on Feb. 27.

Trump announced this past week that he intended to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and begin reworking a trade deal with South Korea, with which the U.S. has a significant trade deficit.