Sentences with phrase «of trade sanctions»

Likewise, countries with a large industrial agribusiness sector, like Brazil and Argentina, feared the imposition of trade sanctions because cattle ranching and soy production are directly tied to deforestation and increased carbon emissions.

In 1994 LaBudde and ESP spearheaded efforts to expose Asia's illegal black market trade in endangered species which resulted in the U.S. implementation of trade sanctions against Taiwan for illegal commerce in rhino horn and tiger bone, and passage of domestic legislation in China, South Korea and Hong Kong to ban the trade.

China immediately recognized the result with the EU eventually following suit, although the United States only certified Kenyatta's victory one month after the actual election, backtracking on pre-election threats of trade sanctions due to concerns with the ICC charges against the president - elect.

Talk of trade sanctions is pure hyperbole: and the last thing the world needs right now.

It held that talking about «political freedom is not a sound argument for attempting to use the blunt instrument of trade sanctions to win democratic rule for China.

The next round of trade sanctions will likely focus entirely on China, and be levied under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for penalties of IP theft and technological crimes.

We talked about those tech areas, some newer arenas Aspect is eyeing such as artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain — as well as issues such as international competition, diversity, potential effects of trade sanctions on startups, and the changing nature of entrepreneurs themselves.

On April 16th America's Department of Commerce said that China's second - largest telecoms firm had trampled on a settlement reached in March 2017 over ZTE's illegal shipments since 2010 of American - made technology — telecommunications equipment to Iran, and routers, servers and microprocessors to North Korea — in known violation of trade sanctions.

But, «there is every reason to believe that businesses need to be prepared for a series of trade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018,» another financial expert told CNBC.

«There is every reason to believe that businesses need to be prepared for a series of trade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018, and sooner rather than later,» Steve Okun, president for the Asia Business Trade Association, told CNBC in an email after the address.

«It does just underline the unintended consequences of trade sanctions,» Rio Tinto Chairman Simon Thompson said at the briefing.

«The U.S. is wielding the big stick of trade sanctions while keeping saying they are willing to talk.

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Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia - Pacific at futures brokerage OANDA, said new sanctions against Tehran «could...

«Although it has acted swiftly on the latest UN sanctions, China is unlikely to go so far as to fully implement new sanctions that, in its judgment, would risk substantially undermining the economic well - being or social stability not just of North Korea, but also of the Chinese population near the North Korean border, which relies heavily on such trade,» she said.

The E.U.'s decision to fall in with U.S. policy on Ukraine and join it in applying sanctions has angered Moscow, which had counted on the importance of their bilateral trade relations — especially in energy — to protect it.

In an interview about the trade sanctions that President Trump is throwing at China and at Corporate America - whose supply chains go through China in search of cheap labor and other cost savings - Ambassador Cui Tiankai defended the perennial innocence of China, as is to be expected, and trotted out the standard Chinese fig leafs and state - scripted rhetoric that confirmed in essence that Trump's decision is on the right track.

Administration officials say no news is expected at the summit on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement or on new sanctions on the Venezuelan government.

On top of that, the trade sanctions have increased the living costs and made the lives harder for the people.

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

Even the newer packages of sanctions might quickly be dropped, dialogue increased and later foreign direct investment secured if the potential for sustained de-escalation and increased trade was deemed rich enough.

Its targets have included a Middle Eastern telecommunications company doing business in North Korea, a Japan - based entity associated with a United Nations group on sanctions and the general director of a Vietnamese trading company, FireEye said, declining to name the victims.

Besides targeting sources of weapons technology, the curbs were the first time the United States sought to directly attack North Korea's daily consumer trade, said Peter Harrell, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security.

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions against Pyongyang and supporting the country through trade of commodities like coal.

Trump will also push for a trade - focused strategy of North Korean deterrence, encouraging China to enact and enforce stronger sanctions.

All have eventually run afoul of their boss, who alternates between lavishing praise on Xi one day and threatening China with ruinous trade sanctions the next.

On top of that, New York's financial regulator may suspend the bank's ability to transact dollar - clearing activities, which will target the bank's trade - finance unit that is at the heart of the sanctions - violation charges.

Despite a series of regulatory sanctions, his company's stock is trading near its all - time high.

«Investors seem reluctant to price in anything more severe than trade sanctions, and the absence of another «fire and fury» Trump tweet has helped encourage markets to respond warily.»

China has denied that its laws require technology transfers and has threatened to retaliate against any US tariffs with trade sanctions of its own, with potential targets such as US soybeans, aircraft, or heavy equipment.

The beneficial owners of SP Trading were not sanctioned by any government and neither was Taylor in relation to his company formation activities.

On November 8, the US House of Representatives held a hearing on the effectiveness of a 1999 law known as the Kingpin Act, which is used to sanction individuals suspected of involvement in the drug trade.

«Overall, we continue to trade a waiting game for the U.S. decision on Iran, waiting to have sanction headlines trigger some frenzied buying,» said Olivier Jakob, managing director of energy consultancy PetroMatrix.

The sanctions came after ZTE violated terms of a settlement with U.S. regulators over selling telecommunications gear to Iran and North Korea, which were subject to U.S. trade embargoes.

Although the sanctions row predates the administration of President Donald Trump, it will make an example of ZTE, reckons Mr Su, as tensions mount between America and China over trade disputes and technological dominance.

China has denied that its laws require technology transfers and has threatened to retaliate against any U.S. tariffs with trade sanctions of its own, with potential targets such as U.S. soybeans, aircraft or heavy equipment.

Unlike other provisions of the official agreement, the currency provision is not enforceable through panels that typically settle disputes, or through officially sanctioned retaliation, the usual method for policing trade deals.

On December 10, 2003, faced with the adverse decision and the growing threat of a trade war, President Bush rescinded the tariffs before the EU implemented its full list of sanctions.

A number of business groups are also arguing against further sanctions, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, several tech groups and trade associations that represent retailers, agriculture, telecommunications, clothing and the auto parts industry.

If the EU does not comply with the WTO ruling, it could have to pay the price in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in trade sanctions.

Commodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further price gains.

«However, this could only be the beginning, as the Trump administration ponders the extension of further sanctions on the Chinese trade relationship.»

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

The global economy is struggling to cope with a barrage of hard conditions such as uncontrolled money printing, trade wars, sanctions, increasing interest rates and a decline in retail trade.

On the political front, «Denominating oil contracts in yuan would promote the use of China's currency in global trade, one of the country's key long - term goals as an alternative to the dollar — making this even more appealing to sanctions - threatened countries relying on the dollar,» Ramady wrote in The National.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has created a bounty to encourage whistleblowers to come forward in exposing «pump - and - dump» schemes withunique information that leads to sanctions of $ 1 million or more are eligible.

LONDON (Reuters)- The London Stock Exchange on Tuesday said it would suspend trading in the global depositary receipts (GDRs) of Russian aluminium and power producer En + (ENPLq.L) due to U.S. sanctions.

The first phase of sanctions targeted individuals, but these new measures prohibits U.S. institutions from trading new bonds with the government of Venezuela or state - owned oil company PDVSA, a move intended to choke off the regime's finances.

Compelling China to change course with respect to these kinds of market access barriers is long overdue, but U.S. missteps (such as imposing restrictions unilaterally through channels not sanctioned by the World Trade Organization) could initiate a much larger and more deleterious sequence of protectionist measures.

North Korea also ran a near - record trade deficit of $ 1.96 billion with China in 2017, the NIS reportedly informed the National Assembly on Monday, owing to United Nations Security Council sanctions banning exports of goods including coal, marine products and garments.

Mergers and acquisitions involving Russian companies, including Morgan Stanley's planned sale of its global oil - trading unit to Rosneft, are threatened by Western sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.