Sentences with phrase «negotiate trade pacts»

He noted that one - fifth of all jobs in New York State depend upon international trade, and that his own district garners some $ 612 million a year from exports, all of which he argued would be endangered should other nations negotiate trade pacts without the United States.

Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

Not exact matches

The United Kingdom wants new bilateral trade pacts, but those are hard to negotiate until its post-Brexit terms with the European Union are known, says Heather Conley of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

And only 58 % of respondents were similarly optimistic that trade pacts would be negotiated in a way that would be good for their own business.

When asked whether Japan would be open to negotiating a bilateral trade pact with the United States, Ishihara said it was still uncertain whether U.S. trade officials would start such negotiations.

The European Union offered Britain talks this year on a future free trade pact but made clear in negotiating guidelines issued on Friday that London must first agree to EU demands on the terms of Brexit.

Australia, meantime, is negotiating a free - trade pact.

The ruling was handed down as negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico met in Ottawa to negotiate reforms to Nafta, a sprawling trade pact that has guided the North American economy since 1994.

One way to deepen Canada's engagement with Asia would be to negotiate an ambitious trade and investment pact with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organization consisting of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and five other Southeast Asian states.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, an ally of trades unions, struck a deal with the State Legislature in June that would give the Building Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York until today to negotiate a fair compensation plan, or the exemption would expire — and the clock ran out with no pact in place.

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a major trade pact, much bigger than NAFTA, being negotiated in secret by the US and many other Pacific Rim Countries.

Ron Kirk, the U.S. Trade Representative, is seeking to negotiate a Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement that has the potential to be the most important regional trade pact ever entered into by the United StTrade Representative, is seeking to negotiate a Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement that has the potential to be the most important regional trade pact ever entered into by the United Sttrade agreement that has the potential to be the most important regional trade pact ever entered into by the United Sttrade pact ever entered into by the United States.

In fact, many of the 12 Pacific Rim countries negotiating the secretive trade pact — Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore, to name a few — have a long and bloody history in the shark fin trade.