Sentences with phrase «multilateral system of»

More broadly, Trump's move risks undermining international order built on mutual trust in the World Trade Organization, the multilateral system of dispute settlement designed to keep trade fair.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization created for the purpose of promoting global monetary and exchange stability, facilitating the expansion and balanced growth of international trade, and assisting in the establishment of a multilateral system of payments for current transactions.

Not exact matches

«China urges the U.S. to respect the authority of the multilateral trade system, and repeal the measures as soon as possible,» it said.

Even though Canada benefits greatly from a multilateral trading system, Ottawa has a long history of equating Canada's national interest with keeping the U.S. border open.

«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.

WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said that «there is no escaping the fact that this meeting has failed,» and that the multilateral trading system came out of it «dented.»

CHRISTINE LAGARDE, IMF DIRECTOR: Remember, the multilateral system that transformed our world over the past generation has created millions of new jobs with higher wages.

Speaking on the sidelines of an official trip to Jakarta, Yau, the city's secretary for commerce and economic development, said: «We will continue to be a voice of the multilateral rule - based free trade system... and a valued partner of all participants in the system, including the US.»

The two former presidents sought to consolidate and extend the World Trade Organisation - led system of multilateral trade.

And its bearing on the future of the global economy — particularly the multilateral system, and how the IMF will evolve.

This is the first great conundrum of trade power politics in the twenty - first century: will the multilateral system successfully accommodate the economic and commercial strategies of Brazil, India, China and Russia and grow, or will the disparity between WTO norms and these countries» growth paths and attitudes to cooperation have become too great for a single set of rules effectively to prevail?

The G8 expressed their commitment to establish automatic exchange of information between different national tax authorities and their support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to develop a multilateral system to implement it.

The US system presents enormous hurdles and veto points for multilateral agreements (eg the Senate Treaty ratification process, which scuppered US participation in the League of Nations for example).

Instead, and given the multilateral currents of the deal (chiefly its preamble and limitations), I argue that Iran is less likely to try to spoil the international system and its norms, and is more likely to game them.

Participation in multilateral and multinational partnerships, such as the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty System, is also necessary to deepen our understanding of both polar regions and show the value in investing in geoscience research, said Sullivan.

The Peoples» Sustainability Treaties (PST) were initiated by civil society organizations to develop collective agreements for sustainable futures beyond Rio +20 and a post 2015 agenda of the multilateral system.

The Tulum Declaration was the foundation for the Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef System initiative that built a multilateral framework for promoting the sustainable conversation of the reef.

One of today's ironies is that those of us living in democracies too often look to government and the multilateral system to answer the world's problems instead of taking action ourselves.

The multilateral system must be reformed to cope with the defining challenges of our time, namely transforming humanity's relationship with the planet and rebuilding trust between people and nations.

This document provides an overview of the linkages between the multilateral trading system and climate change, and related World Trade Organization (WTO) activities.

An example of the third architecture, decentralized approaches and coordinated national policies, would be linkage among domestic cap - and - trade systems, driven not through a multilateral agreement but largely by bilateral arrangements.

In light of the «very slow» progress in multilateral approaches to regulate climate change, it is «likely that the future climate change regime will be a patchwork of domestic systems - or assimilated systems such as that of the European Union — loosely coordinated at the international level», he told swissinfo.ch.

Despite the coming low - carbon energy revolution, we can't expect to make that escape without systems of global cooperation, burden sharing and accountability to help us along, systems that can only be rooted in a fair multilateral accord.

Yeb believes that the Kyoto Protocol is the indication of sincerity, integrity, and transparency in this whole multilateral system.

The TRIPs Agreement is an integral part of the WTO system and is one of the principal multilateral agreements on which that system is based.

Visa Europe and Visa UK in a large number of actions in the Commercial Court in London brought by major retailers seeking damages concerning the settling and implementation of multilateral interchange fees for the Visa card payment system in Europe

Effective WTO advocacy requires, in addition to a comprehensive knowledge of WTO law, an understanding of the multilateral institutional context in which WTO dispute settlement occurs, the ability to devise effective strategies within a system that does not allow for monetary or retrospective remedies, and the capacity to present arguments in a manner which WTO adjudicators (who are drawn from a wide variety of professional backgrounds and legal cultures) will find convincing.

JuriGlobe is a research group formed by professors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, which focuses on the development of a multilingual information data bank, accessible to all on the internet, containing general information relating to the different legal systems in the world, to the different official languages and to some of the most important international commercial conventions, as well as other multilateral commercial tools.

A third and final objective is to stimulate a discussion on the proper governance of globalization in order to develop dynamic multilateral international commercial tools which are both reliable and easily accessible and based on recognized principles and which take into account the diversity of the various legal systems, their languages and their economic and demographic importance.

Legal claims brought against a Sovereign State or its instrumentalities by a foreign investor under a bilateral or multilateral investment treaty, or a contract or a domestic investment law, require a legal team of the highest international caliber: with great expertise in international law, a deep understanding of the civil and common law systems, extensive experience in the various fora and rules under which claims are raised, an enhanced capability to analyze complex facts and industries, broad language abilities, and sensitivity to political and cultural issues in the various regions of the world.

If it continues to grow and more states accede, some are suggesting that the Convention could serve as a template for a further treaty introducing a multilateral investment court system for resolution of investor - state disputes under existing investment treaties.

Government delegates attending next week's annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations in Geneva will decide whether to continue in 2015 with multilateral talks on questions relating to «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

The second multilateral meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» by members of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) will be held at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on 13 - 17 April 2015.

It seems unlikely, but one new indicator is seen in the unanimous support given to the first multilateral discussions to be held on the topic of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

When the first multilateral meeting on the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) convened at the U.N. in Geneva in May, not one woman was called to speak on the expert panels that informed the discussions.