Sentences with phrase «of trade fights»

BEIJING (AP)-- Facing the risk of a trade fight with the United States, China announced plans Tuesday to allow full foreign ownership of automakers in five years.

When lawmakers return from recess next week, they are likely to be besieged by various industries seeking protection from the economic fallout of the trade fight between the Trump administration and China that threatens to impose $ 50 billion in retaliatory duties on U.S. exports.

Not exact matches

The Canadian government is buoyed by other recent developments in Canada-U.S. trade: this week Boeing has dropped its legal fight against Bombardier and there are indications of a potential settlement in a dispute over glossy paper.

Abe also welcomed the impending visit to Japan of China's Premier Li Keqiang to (a) set up a trilateral free trade area with China and South Korea, (b) conclude the agreement on an East Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, (c) join China's erstwhile shunned Belt and Road infrastructure projects, (d) promote multilateral trade and (e) fight trade protectionism.

Paul Wells of the Toronto Star wrote at the end of July that Canada should be ready to fight a trade war, «as soon as a Trump presidency stops being hypothetical.»

While NABUCO, the trade group representing college and university business officers, is making the case that these tax reforms will hit students and employees of higher education, Skorina said it is going to be a tough fight.

But while the companies are keeping quiet, collectively and through the mouths of their supporters and trade groups, they are putting up a fight to stop the proposed tax dead in its tracks.

«So many times it happens too fast You trade your passion for glory Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past You must fight just to keep them alive»

If this trade fight escalates, China could fire back by selling a large chunk of the $ 1.17 trillion of U.S. treasury bonds it holds.

To fight it, we need to fight poaching and the «exploitation and trade of threatened species.»

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

Whether you're fighting to save the free world, cutting your losses or seeking the best trade possible, understand that you must stay abreast of the environment and corporate battle conditions.

«I don't think anybody doubts that the cost of fighting fires has gone up,» said Debbie Miley, executive director of the National Wildfire Suppression Association (NWSA), a trade group for private wildfire fighters.

THE fight for control of Foodland entered a new phase this week with reports the company was talking with interested parties to rival grocery wholesaler Metcash Trading's aggressive bid for the locally based supermarket chain.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he would impose stiff tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, making good on a key campaign promise and rattling stock markets as the prospect of a global trade fight appeared imminent.

Zoellick recalled how hard Canada fought for the inclusion of that chapter in the original Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA's precursor.

The agreement is also a victory for a president whose most ardent campaign supporters were animated in part by a promise that Mr. Trump would fight for them against an international free - trade establishment that they believe had robbed them of jobs and depressed their wages.

The escalating trade fight between the U.S. and China rippled through global markets on Wednesday, hitting everything from the price of soybeans and cotton to shares of U.S. exporters.

It also has implications for relations between the United States and some of its closest allies, and could further strengthen Canada's resolve to fight changes that the Trump administration is demanding as it seeks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

BEIJING — China has struck a hard stance on the issue at the root of the looming trade fight between Beijing and Washington: China's government - led drive, which Washington describes as breaking international rules, to build the cutting - edge industries of the future.

Those levies would harm the farmers and business interests that the Trump administration has promised to protect and would fuel a trade fight that could undermine the president's goal of strengthening American industry.

The ability for Trump to abrogate hard - fought existing trade agreements, to kill off universal healthcare, to deficit spend building a huge amount of infrastructure — including a wall — and provide tax cuts to those of least need is deeply unsettling to many.

The issue looked definitive, of course, way back when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives beat John Turner's Liberals in the epic 1988 election — the campaign so bitterly fought over the trade deal with the U.S. that Mulroney secured at great political risk.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce for China was quoted on Friday saying, «China doesn't want a trade war, but we're not afraid to fight a trade war.»

«It's a fight we don't want to have, though, because while these fights can drag on in international trade tribunals for years it really puts the pinch on smaller producers... In the short term, what I'm most interested in is protecting the ability of Nova Scotia forestry producers to continue to work without being subject to an unfair duty at the border.»

«This is a very complex piece of business,» says former prime minister Brian Mulroney, who negotiated the original Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement and later fought to secure Canada's place at the NAFTA table.

Moreover, there is growing anxiety that technology developments on the near horizon will crush the jobs of the millions who drive cars and trucks, analyze medical tests and data, perform middle management chores, dispense medicine, trade stocks and evaluate markets, fight on battlefields, perform government functions, and even replace those who program software — that is, the creators of algorithms.

The city would «fight for its rights» in the event of discriminatory trade practices being implemented against it, Yau said.

«We're extremely pleased to have COSCO with us in this fight,» said BTTC campaign co-chair and Vancouver Board of Trade CEO Iain Black.

Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when President Donald Trump picked a trade fight with the Asian nation.

REGINA — The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade (GVBOT) has gained support from business organizations across the country in its fight to make Canada's aviation industry more competitive.

WASHINGTON — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an «assault on our country» by foreign competitors.

This adage suggests that traders take advantage of the prevailing primary trend, rather than trading against - or «fighting» - it.

That has blurred the lines over the pending solar trade fight even within the United States, where American manufacturers are squaring off against American installers and users of the panels.

Rumors of insider trading and other issues related to the fight between proponents of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin likely played a role in this week's dramatic drop.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

But our strength will come from the trade unions of the farmers, the unions of the wage earners, the movements for the unemployed, the homeless, those without official papers, who are fighting on every continent.

It was his conviction that all races bear the image of God that led him to fight so vociferously for the end of the slave trade.

The latest data estimates 45.8 million people are in modern slavery today worldwide, and impacting change in such a lucrative and exploitative system of oppression feels a bit like fighting the Transatlantic Slave Trade of the 1800's.

However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment, in the era of globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

One thinks of Mother Teresa fighting on the side of the dying in Calcutta, or William Wilberforce in nineteenth - century England taking on the slave trade, or Martin Luther King, Jr., attacking racism in America.

You say the conserviatives of the time fought tooth and nail against ending the slave trade?

While the GATT was mandated to deal solely with trade in merchandise goods, the scope of its successor body, the WTO, was enlarged as a result of these talks to include four new areas: trade in agriculture, trade and investment in services, intellectual property fights and investment measures.

After failing to get the bishops to oppose the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), Clarke took a leave of absence to fight it himself, and at the 1992 NAFTA signing ceremony stood up and called Prime Minister Brian Mulroney a liar.

The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle, sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...

«There is a need, so we studied trade groups that fight on behalf of their members who might not be able to individually.»

Other activities in four municipalities in Mindanao include forum on golden rice and organic agriculture, organic food and products fair, press conference, concert, cultural presentations (reading of poems on organic agriculture composed by farmers), t - shirts printing, dissemination of campaign materials, sharing of farmers» practices and innovations, boodle fight, and opening of organic trading post.

«China does not want to fight a trade war, but it is absolutely not afraid of a trade war,» the ministry said in the statement.