Sentences with phrase «of trade delegations»

McDonald also led a Vancouver Board of Trade delegation to Ottawa and Washington, D.C., to lobby for fast border lanes.

Our real estate firm was a member of a trade delegation from B.C. that went to Calgary shortly after the Liberal landslide in the left coast province, bringing a message from our new premier, Gordon Campbell, to Ralph Klein: «Let my people go!»

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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 CTrade Representative Robert Lighthizer on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the trade delegation heading to CTrade Agreement (NAFTA) and the trade delegation heading to Ctrade delegation heading to China.

Ross is also part of a U.S. delegation heading to China this week to talk about possible ways to address alleged trade abuses.

But the divergent U.S. trade delegation is likely to have differing views on the merits of such an offer.

In a brief statement, China's Commerce Ministry welcomed the delegation's trip to Beijing, set for Thursday and Friday, adding that Liu would meet its members to «exchange views» on issues of mutual concern about Sino-U.S. trade and business ties.

* The United States is sending a top - level trade delegation to China this week, but the market was discounting hopes of an agreement between the two countries.

The White House said a high - level delegation of administration officials is heading to China on Thursday to discuss trade issues between the two countries.

Perhaps due to the prickly nature of the Canada - China relationship, Harper's visit has a heavy focus on trade and economics, with the prime minister leading a Canadian business delegation to the industrial city of Hangzhou on Friday and Saturday before heading to the capital, Beijing, for two more days of meetings.

Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, will lead a delegation of President Trump's top economic advisers to Beijing next week in hopes of brokering an agreement to avert a trade war.

The delegation comprises a wide range of views on trade, with Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Kudlow, a former CNBC economic commentator, more receptive to free trade and resistant to draconian tariffs, and Mr. Lighthizer encouraging the president to take a harder line.

The White House is also dispatching a delegation of top officials to Beijing this week to try to soothe tensions in its trade battle there.

Other members of the delegation, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Larry Kudlow, who heads the National Economic Council, appear more inclined to strike deals that would accomplish the president's goal of reducing the gap between what America imports from China and what it sells to the country, and thus head off the risk of an escalating trade war.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's President and CEO, Iain Black, participated in a pre-NAFTA delegation on January 22 in Montreal that brought together the leaders of chambers of commerce from across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a member of the U.S. trade delegation to China, leaves a hotel in Beijing, China May 3, 2018.

A U.S. delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives here on Thursday with a list of asks for President Xi Jinping: reduce China's trade surplus with the U.S., better protect intellectual property, and end policies Washington says favor large Chinese companies and discriminate against American businesses.

The China Daily reports that a Chinese trade delegation of 80, led by Liaoning province governor Zhang Guoguang is leaving for the United States on Sunday for trade talks in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Detroit.

The US delegation to China, which consists of both hawks and moderates on trade issues, is likely to seek a balanced outcome on bilateral trade issues with China rather than taking the predicted adversarial approach, said Chinese experts.

The members of the US delegation include US Ambassador to China Terry Branstad, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the statement noted.

Ma also met with a group of British business leaders traveling with Cameron's trade delegation, among them Peter Williams, founder of Jack Wills, the British retail apparel chain, Julie Deane, managing director of Cambridge Satchel Co., and Ning Li, CEO of London - based furniture retailer MADE.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China raised with a visiting U.S. trade delegation the issue of a ban by the United States on its companies selling components and software to ZTE Corp for seven years, the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A U.S. trade delegation in China has been having very good conversations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, as he headed into the second and likely last day of talks in Beijing.

A U.S. trade delegation in China has been having very good conversations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday, as he heads into the second and likely last day of talks in Beijing.

Donald Trump is sending a high - level US delegation to China tomorrow (May 3) in the hope of de-escalating trade tensions between the world's two largest...

The delegation is expected to include U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and the director of the White House's National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow.

The Trump administration is sending a delegation of top trade and economic officials to China next week at the request of China's government, President Trump announced this week.

As part of her research she visited the Japanese Consulate and chatted with the Trade Commissioner, attended a function at a local Japanese Cultural Center, and met with visiting Japanese executives who were part of an incoming delegation.

Delegations were led by the chief negotiators for the three countries, who indicated that progress was made in the areas of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules, customs, trade facilitation, telecommunications, good regulatory practices, anti-corruption, market access for goods, technical barriers to trade (TBT), digital trade, and some sectoral annexes.

Lighthizer will be part of a Trump administration delegation that includes U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House trade and manufacturing adviser Peter Navarro and new White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow.

A series of meetings organized by the Ontario Trade Commission in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, has led to a delegation visit to Japan and Korea from February 20 to 27.

As CMI goes to press, a high - level delegation of US officials is in Beijing for initial talks to address economic and trade tensions.

On April 12, Mr. Ryan spearheaded the drafting of a letter signed by the entire Wisconsin congressional delegation to the Commerce Secretary, the acting U.S. Trade Representative and the acting Agriculture Secretary.

In 2017 we will again present the strengths of German engineering in Ethiopia, this time with a delegation of member companies, who will be taking part in the first International agrofood plastpack Ethiopia trade show.

During the most recent Sino - Dutch economic and trade talks, Hein Schumacher, CEO of FrieslandCampina, who took office this January, as a member of the Dutch business delegation, accompanied Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to visit China and had a friendly meeting with Chinese media.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson, who led the business delegation of the trade mission to China, said in the company's latest Farmlink magazine that within seven years, Chinese dairy consumption will reach 70 billion litres.

«New York's Congressional delegation must move immediately to sponsor and pass a law that declares the entire World Trade Center district a War Memorial where one group of Americans may not move to insult another class of citizens.»

He was accompanied by a government delegation including the Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo; Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen; Mr Joseph Ghartey, Minister for Railways; Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister for Transport; Kwasi Amoako Atta, Minister for Roads and Highways; Charles Adu Boahen, Deputy Minister for Finance; Mohammed Amin Adam, Deputy Minister for Energy; Mohammed Habib Tijani, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mrs Gifty Ohene Konadu, Coordinator of the «One District One Factory» initiative and Reginald Yofi Grant, Chief Executive of the Ghana Investment Promotion Cen

Successive Congresses» delegation to Presidents of extraordinary powers over trade, and the next Congress's domination by exceedingly conservative Republican party organisations imply that the crucial first year of Mr. Trump's presidency could be a time of sharp changes in America's relations with the world — if that is what he wishes.

The speakers discussed the state's delegation of responsibility to civil society, trade unions, local communities and business actors.

The 11 person U.S. delegation, along with representatives of several U.S. government trade and investment - focused agencies, was led by the Honourable Penny Pritzker — U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

He reminded supporters of his gamble to free Libyans from the clutches of Colonel Gaddafi, and listed the 10 countries to which he's led trade delegations since May 2010.

Elumelu's engagements in the U.S. comes after the recent visit by a delegation of members of Obama's Presidential Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC - DBIA), along with representatives of several U.S. government trade and investment - focused agencies.

Other members of the Connecticut's congressional delegation have expressed concerns about the trade pact's possible effects on jobs and want a series of protections.

Osinbajo stated this while meeting with a delegation of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), led by Mr Hiroyuki Ishige, the organisation's Chairman and CEO on the sideline of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

But Doniger, who as a U.S. EPA official at the time was part of the U.S. delegation, said Americans pushed back, believing that a trading component would be key to eventual ratification.

Jan Romere, of the Swedish delegation, says that «for the Nordics, it was urgent that something be done about the environmental problems» in the region, not least because they «stand in the way of closer cooperation and trade».

PetQuip (booth 4470), the international trade association of pet equipment suppliers, is hosting a delegation of British exhibitors at this year's Global Pet Expo.

PetQuip, the international trade association of pet equipment suppliers, is hosting a delegation of British exhibitors at this year's Global Pet Expo.

APPA also supports foreign trade commissions, which bring delegations of qualified buyers to Global Pet Expo, and individual meetings are created with APPA members.

«Our participation in Global Pet Expo 2016 with a delegation of Italian manufacturers is only the first of a number of actions that we are planning for the future and will involve other leading trade events worldwide,» said Giuseppe Pierini of Promopet, Zoomark International's managing and operating secretariat.