Sentences with phrase «one's main trading partner»

(An index that measures the value of the dollar against the currencies of the U.S. main trading partners had risen almost a full percentage point through Asian and European trading.)

The dollar has appreciated 12 percent against the currencies of the United States» main trading partners since June on expectations of tighter monetary policy and economists estimate it could shave 0.6 percentage point off growth this year.

The Chinese are in an untenable situation where they live off their main trade partners while advocating globalization, multilateralism and the empty shell of «win - win cooperation.»

Apart from slowing global demand, export growth is seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

China, North Korea's main trading partner, could effectively defund Pyongyang and bring about the collapse of the government, as the US has encouraged.

Increased demand from the United States, Canada's main trading partner, and a weaker currency are making a difference.

Canada is a net exporter of commodities while our main trading partner, the United States, is a net importer.

Apart from slowing global demand, exports are seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

We would become more concerned about a negative growth impact from trade negotiations if we were to see rising tariffs on the goods that bulk the largest in the exchange between the U.S. and its main trading partners.

In Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny convened an emergency Cabinet meeting as Ireland's stock market suffered the biggest market falls in Europe, reflecting the fact that Ireland's main trading partner is Britain.

This seems to be a strong hint that the markets should expect any further strength in the US currency against those of China's main trading partners to be at least partly offset by a decline in the renminbi against the dollar.»

It goes on to consider the experience elsewhere, comparing economic growth in Australia's main trading partners, the euro area, Japan, China and the US.

«Economically, we see uncertainty regarding the UK's future trading relationship with the EU, its main trading partner, where we see a risk of a significant reduction in market access,» Nell says.

On Sunday, the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, threatened to cut off trade with any country that does business with North Korea — an unsubtle, and impractical, warning to its main trading partner, China.

At a time when confidence was fragile, living standards falling, interest rates already at record lows, banks weak and inward - looking and when our main trading partner was in crisis...

We were always going to have some sort of intimate relationship with it, or cut ourselves off entirely from our main trading partner.

The success of renewed negotiations will crucially hinge on China, the DPRK's main trading partner and the new great power of the Asia - Pacific region.

Main trading partners are: China (7 percent of total exports and 10 percent of imports), Germany (7 percent of exports and 8 percent of imports) and Italy.

Nigeria and South Africa have both benefited from a recovery in commodity prices since early 2016, though not as much as their main trading partners — China, the United States and the euro zone.

The EU is the UK's main trading partner and there are fears if we leave some multi-national firms may choose to move another EU country.

Cabinet minister Chris Grayling, who is leader of the House of Commons, told the Guardian: «We don't have a free trade agreement now and we are already one of the US's main trading partners.

Its main trading partners include the United States, United Kingdom, and Finland.

The post World War II economic boom saw the establishment of mining (mainly alumina for bauxite), tourism, manufacturing and construction sectors, and the USA replace the UK as Jamaica's main trading partner.

Higher interest rates have increased demand for the dollar, causing it to appreciate against our main trading partners.

The US and China have made it clear that if Australia won't address climate change, two of its main trading partners will.

Is it good international relations for Australia to have a Prime Minister's chief advisor who believes our main trading partners to be stupid?

The international protest has been growing the past year especially since last years ATA - judgment of the CJEU, with many of the EU's main trading partners having threatened to take retaliatory measures against the EU for applying their scheme to third country carriers.

Such developments come also as a result of a wave of foreign investment into Africa, particularly from China, which in 2009 overtook the US to become Africa's main trading partner.

The United States is one of our main trading partners and we have a Free Trade Agreement in place since 2009.