Sentences with phrase «of trade treaties»

As more international trade becomes electronic and not just a matter of shipping goods or shifting money from country to country, the laws governing electronic transactions attract the attention of the makers of trade treaties.

And the value of trade treaties might be called into question, undermining U.S. efforts to implement free - trade deals with European and Asian - Pacific trading partners.

A recent example of a trade treaty making rules for e-commerce legislation is the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) among 17 Pacific Rim countries, including Canada.

Not exact matches

They begin with an immediate overhaul of NAFTA, with his ordering the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to form a study on the ramifications of withdrawal from the treaty and what would be required through legislation to do so.

It ended up being OK — a trade treaty meant that FXR pays Canadian tax rates, which are much lower than those of Scandinavian nations, on its profits from the region — but checking ahead of time saved him from a potentially unpleasant surprise later.

With an agreement reached on the Trans Pacific Partnership, the 12 - member trade and investment treaty, opinions began swirling about what the deal means for the future of Canada.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

The Roundtables generated multiple policy recommendations on issues such as standard setting; monitoring and enforcement, expanding the role of women in trade policy and practice, and linking trade treaties with human rights protection.

A number of international treaties and the World Trade Organization's agreement on Trade - Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) extend protections to international technology transfers, including copyrights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, layout designs of integrated circuits, and undisclosed information.

He would also have the US Trade Representative notify Mexico and Canada that the US intends to propose some amendments to the treaty, which could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country of origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.

On Day 1, Trump would begin reforming NAFTA, including ordering the Commerce Department and International Trade Commission to begin a study on what the ramifications of withdrawing from the treaty would be, and what would be required legislatively to do so.

In a belated mobilization to save the deal, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in recent weeks flooded Capitol Hill with executives from companies that stand to lose lucrative trade preferences if Trump fulfills his threat to withdraw from the treaty.

But the TPP will mark the first time that Canada has accepted trade treaty obligations governing patent linkage, which could interfere with cost - saving reforms.Copyright and trademarks — TPP copyright rules would require far longer terms of copyright protection, based on the U.S. model, and could require protection for controversial practices such as «digital locks,» which allow copyright holders to encrypt software in computerized devices.

Because of the resistance of countries of the South at the INTO Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996, the issue of the foreign - investment treaty was assigned to a working group «to examine the relationship between trade and investment».

The US has, for reasons of its own (including fears that the treaty can pose a challenge to such laws as the Helms - Burton law and the D'Amato law which seek to penalize foreign corporations which trade with or invest in Cuba, Iran or Libya), declared that it would not accept the treaty in its present form.

Gochicoa went on to state: «In a free - trade treaty like the one we are looking at now, the only way to protect one's brand and quality is with an official Mexican standard and a designation of origin.»

Before the beginning of the Central America Free Trade Agreement in 2005, the United States had a trade surplus with all nations involved with the trTrade Agreement in 2005, the United States had a trade surplus with all nations involved with the trtrade surplus with all nations involved with the treaty.

As of the last year, the United States has trade deficits with the other CAFTA treaty signers including Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

This shift in global trade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trtrade policy places China in the middle of a rivalry among competing potential trading blocks, including the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement that is currently being negotiated without China, the anticipated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment trTrade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union (EU), the proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia that includes China, and even a potential China - EU investment treaty.

The TPP is a major part of President Barack Obama's trade agenda, and he has sought «fast - track» authority from Congress that would grant him unilateral power to negotiate the deal and would leave the legislative branch only able to vote yes or no on the treaty, with no possibility of introducing amendments.

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Now in government, and indeed, in charge of Bis which houses, separately, both the arms export promotion and licensing units, Cable is hiding behind the proposed international arms trade treaty to still any moral qualms.

«What I want to do is negotiate a new comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union,» she said, «to have that negotiated within that two year timescale the treaty has set, and then as part of the ongoing relationship, of course we'll have an implementation period when that is put into place.»

It is a blunder for example, I repeat, that President Muhammadu Buhari stayed away from the Extra-ordinary session of the AU in Kigali on the African Continental Free Trade Area Treaty, the same treaty that had been approved and endorsed by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), just because some unionists screamed that they were not consulted.

The treaty — the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's trade agenda — would ease trade barriers and a host of regulations between the United States, Australia and several Asian and Latin American countries.

Meanwhile, the Speaker of Parliament has referred the treaty to three committees of Parliament: the Trade and Industry, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committees for consideration and report.

An international treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973), known by its acronym, CITES, also addresses this problem.

A few years earlier, Brackett had worked on the implementation in Canada of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and became familiar with their permits and treaties.

The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's influential economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Todd Stern, the lead U.S. climate treaty negotiator at the U.S. State Department, Obama adviser John Podesta and Lee Zak, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

The jaguar is protected by an international treaty which bans all trade in any part of the animal.

But beyond the horse - trading, there's also a substantive need for transparency, from the United States» point of view, particularly if a legally binding treaty is some years off, he said.

The treaty puts off for 2 years the issue that kept the United States and European Union at each other's throats until early morning in Montreal: whether to legislate the trade of GMOs that are not likely to propagate in the environment.

After 5 years of bitter negotiations, delegates from 130 countries finally hammered out a global treaty that will govern the trade of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

The autonomy of African states on seed policy is limited by trade deals, such as free trade agreements or investment treaties, signed by States.

As long as groups pursue goals that can not be reduced to economics, as long as divisions of friend and foe reflect differences of ethnicity, political principle, and religious faith, not just collisions of material interests, there will be a need for statecraft as well as for international technology and trade treaties.

If Country A sent over a bunch of diplomatic trade representatives to negotiate a completely banal treaty, and Country B unexpectedly launched a naval and aerial blockade of Country A... «I would most likely be very upset with Country B.»

Ordinary dividends on stocks of non-U.S. companies qualify to be taxed at a lower 20 % maximum tax rate if the stock is traded on a U.S. exchange, the corporation is headquartered in a country where the United States has a tax treaty, or the corporation is incorporated in a U.S. possession.

Sadly, the actuaries above me, who had signed the treaties before I was employed by AIG, forgot to inform the investment department that the treaty limited the trading of around 20 % of the bonds of the company in ways that would be mimicked 10 years later in CDOs.

«His threat to rip up existing treaties and impose new tariffs — even if there are limits to what can actually be accomplished under executive authority — would disrupt global supply chains, jeopardizing the integrated international trade system that has been the key foundation of decades of global growth and prosperity,» warned Stephen Rogers, an investment strategist at Investors Group, in a white paper released before Americans cast their ballots.

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The only other choices you have are to ask for a peace treaty or a trade agreement, both of which can only be done if they are relatively friendly toward you.

Trade treaties can be signed, allies can be formed, taxes can be controlled, and money can be invested in research efforts to strengthen military or economic aspects of your rule.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Kozan moved at age 28 to the treaty port of Yokohama, a former fishing village that by 1870 was a burgeoning center for international trade.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

Of course, it is possible that nations will agree to expand the global cap - and - trade systems foreseen under the Kyoto climate treaty.

Implementing a CO2 NAAQS set at 350 parts per million would require a much higher degree of economic sacrifice than would be demanded by either the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade bill or the Copenhagen climate treaty, which aimed to stabilize CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million by 2050.

But in late 2004, Russia decided to pass the treaty — unexpectedly, and as part of a move to have its application for World Trade Organisation membership accepted by the European Union.

This year Dr Pachauri joined the New York investment fund Pegasus as a «strategic adviser», and was made chairman of the advisory board to the Asian Development Bank, strongly supportive of CDM trading, whose CEO warned that failure to agree a treaty at Copenhagen would lead to a collapse of the carbon market.