Sentences with phrase «of trading standard»

But where they do, consumers are protected by MRLs, which are a form of trading standard.

Not exact matches

The commerce secretary concluded the figures mock a standard criticism of Trump's fixation on the U.S.'s trade deficit with its NAFTA partners.

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) and Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production standard (WRAP) both grew out of U.S. market reactions to labour abuses in Central America during the 1990s, while the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) and Ethical Trade Initiative (ETI) worked to address early European concerns with the fair treatment of workers across North Africa, India and Bangladesh.

The agency recently warned that some cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs) might be in violation of the law, and that much of this activity is taking place without the standard protections for investors.

The EU's position is that only a «standard» free trade agreement will be possible, with «no direct branching in areas like financial services» and only «limited EU commitments to allow cross border provision of services.»

The CEO of Standard Chartered said tariffs could be an «effective» opening gambit for trade negotiations, but ultimately would provide a negative if there were escalating tensions between China and the U.S.

He also expressed doubt about the concept of embedding wage standards in a trade agreement:» It would establish a principle wage norm in free trade agreements, which is certainly outside the spirit of the World Trade Organization.&rtrade agreement:» It would establish a principle wage norm in free trade agreements, which is certainly outside the spirit of the World Trade Organization.&rtrade agreements, which is certainly outside the spirit of the World Trade Organization.&rTrade Organization.»

In 1991, it became the first U.S. company to officially adopt theTransFair internationally recognized standards of fair trade as guiding principles for itsbusiness.

China is off to a strong start in 2018 and any trade spat with the U.S. would not be felt until later in the year or in 2019, says Kelvin Lau of Standard Chartered Bank.

Touting this country's high - tech sector and the job opportunities it's creating has become a standard part of any speech during trade missions.

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.

Trump would also instruct the US trade representative to notify Mexico and Canada of the administration's intention to propose amendments to the deal, which, as CNN reported, «could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.»

The problem is, says Ottawa financial planner Marc Lamontagne, once you're used to a certain standard of living, it's harder than you think to trade down.

The concern comes in the wake of complaints by environmental activists and trade unions that this deal and others will erode standards for food, work and industry.

Hillary Clinton — who once lauded the deal as the «gold standard» of trade agreements — has spent months trying to convince nervous progressives that she has no intention of supporting the 14 - nation pact once she gets in office.

The three western provinces already operate a reasonable facsimile of what an internal free trade regime should look like with their New West Partnership, which streamlines business regulation, smoothes worker mobility across provincial borders and establishes common transportation standards.

Washington said Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub, had not met the minimum standards for the elimination of the illicit trade.

A spokeswoman for Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry appeared similarly open to the U.S. rejoining, noting that the TPP was «designed to be an inclusive agreement, which is open to like - minded countries willing and able to meet its high standards.»

However, in his opinion, this importance of China is overstated by standard trade data, in part because the trade growth figures can not account for all the goods flowing into and out of the country.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger called Trump's climate decision a «strategic gift to the Chinese, who are eager to fill the void that Washington is leaving around the world on everything from setting the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the infrastructure projects that give Beijing vast influence.»

As part of his role, he will be responsible for setting standards for Securities Systematic Solutions, a newly created initiative that seeks to bring together all electronic trading efforts.

The Trade Agreement Act of 1979, Public Law 96 - 39 (July 26, 1979), prohibits Federal agencies from engaging in any standards or related activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.

People who think they need to trade daily will often lower their standards, chase the market, force trades, or some combination of all three.

Trading was halted Monday in Lumber Liquidators after its shares dropped more than 20 percent following a CBS report that the company sold flooring with higher levels of formaldehyde than permitted under California's health and safety standards.

The former trade minister and chairman of Standard Chartered bank has set a new target of 33 % female board members by 2020 and widened the scope to all FTSE 350 firms.

At the close of trading in New York, the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was down just over 1.5 percent, to 1,921.22.

But the general point is that high terms of trade, all other things equal, will raise living standards, while low terms of trade will reduce them.»

Throughout our history, we have successfully relied on our exports and imports, particularly during the vast expansion of global trade in the decades following the Second World War, to support our rising standard of living.

In particular, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) remains relevant: its goal — bringing together two of the world's largest economies around a high - standard agreement - is still a worthy one that would go a long way in sending a concerted message to Beijing.28

NEW YORK, April 19 (LPC)- The Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) is developing a standard industry framework for Green loans to allow more activity in the U.S., which is lagging the European loan market due to a previous lack of corporate and regulatory support.

In the internal memorandum, sent to approximately 17,000 brokers at Merrill Lynch and Merrill Edge, a trading sub-unit where clients manage their own trades, the company purportedly justifies the ban due to concerns about the «suitability and eligibility standards of this product.»

Directors must have a history of achievements that reflect high standards for themselves and others, enabling them to contribute to the superior performance of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Board.

This is what I wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative global financial system of settling trade and balance - of - payments transactions without the United States.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

Some of these agreements have resulted in significant market opening; others have been of lower standard and have dodged the tough issues necessary to maximize income gains from trade; still others have resulted in trade diversion rather than trade creation and have created a so - called «noodle bowl» of overlapping and sometimes contradictory agreements that have become a thicket of regulations that businesses often find difficult to understand.

Joining as a member of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) in 2008, the Group Integrated the latest BSCI Code of Conduct into local trading contracts and conduct regular compliance assessments to ensure ethical business standards are in place.

109 For most of the last century, enforcers reviewed vertical integration under the same standards as horizontal mergers, as set out in the Sherman Act, the Clayton Act, and the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Even by the standards of the commodity business (and the commodity trading business in particular) Glencore is known for its appetite for political and legal risk, and its willingness to deal with sketchy counterparties.

At the October trade show for NACS, the association for Advancing Convenience and Fuel Retailing, Hershey showed plenty of ideas for traditional displays, such as putting larger king - size bars next to standard bars.

In a recent speech to the St. John's Board of Trade, Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge made a strong case that Canada should concentrate on increasing productivity, so that we can have sustainable economic growth and rising standards of living in the future.

While it still offers the standard trading option it also provides a number of variations:

Virtually every cryptocurrency exchange offers the purchase and trade of Bitcoin as standard.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

Borzi, assistant secretary of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration and chief architect of the fiduciary redraft, told Investment Advisor in an exclusive interview in mid-March that while brokerage industry trade groups have been prodding the DOL and SEC to collaborate on their fiduciary rules so that they end up with «one fiduciary standard,» having identical rules just isn't possible.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Virtual currencies, he argued, are valued as highly as they are because of the «oxygen provided by the connection to standard means of payments and trading apps that link users to conventional bank accounts.»

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.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

That's the nice thing about ETFs — they often provide interesting trading opportunities outside of my standard trend trading model.