Sentences with phrase «other trade pacts»

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When Schwanen compares this Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with other bilateral agreements we've signed (the last international trade pact Canada signed was with Latvia), however, he notes that it contains more concessions.

Australia and New Zealand said on Tuesday they hope to salvage the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations to join the trade pact after U.S. President Donald Trump kept his promise to pull out of the accord.

The countries voiced different opinions regarding a regional trade pact, with the US focusing on Trump's «America First» agenda and others advocating increased regional free trade.

Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.

One way to deepen Canada's engagement with Asia would be to negotiate an ambitious trade and investment pact with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional organization consisting of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and five other Southeast Asian states.

With respect to the United States, half of Canadians (51 %) hold the opinion that the gains from securing a trade pact with Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Australia and the other TPP nations, outweigh the retaliatory risks that may come from the U.S., if they are upset by new agreement:

One of our largest trading relationships has been put at risk by the perceived snub offered to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Vietnam in November when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau missed a scheduled press conference intended to announce that Canada, Japan and nine other Trans - Pacific Partnership countries had reached agreement in principle on a revised trade pact.

The «free trade» pact between the U.S. and 11 other nations has garnered intense opposition, particularly from labor unions.

He said he supported fast - tracking the trade pact because the same has been afforded to other presidents.

He noted that one - fifth of all jobs in New York State depend upon international trade, and that his own district garners some $ 612 million a year from exports, all of which he argued would be endangered should other nations negotiate trade pacts without the United States.

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a major trade pact, much bigger than NAFTA, being negotiated in secret by the US and many other Pacific Rim Countries.

Other members of the Connecticut's congressional delegation have expressed concerns about the trade pact's possible effects on jobs and want a series of protections.

California, New York and other states are joining some Canadian provinces and European countries in a pact aimed at eventually linking their «cap - and - trade» markets in heat - trapping gases.

The U.S. is currently in talks with 11 other Pacific Rim nations to develop a Trans - Pacific Partnership trade pact.

Unfortunately, however, the U.S. proposal --- which is, crucially, legally binding and enforceable --- has thus far met strong resistance from other countries in the trade pact and risks being rolled back, further threatening the shark population.

Washington was one of the founding members of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), a carbon trading program, but has left that pact along with five other states.