Sentences with phrase «owned by foreign governments»

This includes many foreigners and companies owned by foreign governments such as Hugo Chavez's oil company, CITGO.

Witness the new rules for takeovers by «state - owned enterprises» — companies owned by a foreign government — recently unveiled in the budget omnibus bill.

Not exact matches

Foreign trade shows or fairs, set up by foreign governments to showcase their own manufacturers, are held to tempt potential impForeign trade shows or fairs, set up by foreign governments to showcase their own manufacturers, are held to tempt potential impforeign governments to showcase their own manufacturers, are held to tempt potential importers.

Foreign investors hit the brakes last December, shortly after the Harper government approved the Nexen and Progress deals and the prime minister warned that future takeovers in the oilsands by state - owned enterprises (SOEs) would be approved on only an exceptional basis.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

It also includes companies that file with a government agency but are owned by private companies, domestic or foreign, that do not file such financial statements.

Their call to reduce barriers to foreign investment is welcome, as is the notion that governments need to «lead by example» by moving more of their own services online.

The Chinese government has said that it will remove the strict ownership caps on EVs by the end of the year, allowing foreign companies to wholly own businesses in China.

That is, a private or publicly - owned American company operating in a foreign country — and Canada is in this context a foreign country — receives aid from the U.S. government that, as the Canadian government's legislation describes, appears to constitute direct or indirect influence by a government or agency.

Foreign private businesses, not just state - owned enterprises, can be manipulated by their home governments to advance foreign policy or national security aims.Foreign private businesses, not just state - owned enterprises, can be manipulated by their home governments to advance foreign policy or national security aims.foreign policy or national security aims.»

«To be blunt, Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead.

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

They're starting to talk about control over our natural resources when it's a takeover by a foreign government through a state - owned enterprise of a foreign government.

The government followed up by making an illegal gift to American car manufacturers by saying «We're going to break international law and only give subsidies to U.S. auto companies, not foreign - owned companies in the United States.

From missionaries in foreign lands, from Christians scorned by their own kinsmen in non-Christian areas, from loyal churchmen persecuted by totalitarian governments come declarations of Christ's blessing and Christ's love.

Since the Russian channel RT (formerly «Russia Today») was recently asked to register as a foreign agent, because it is owned by the Russian government, shouldn't the same be requested of the BBC?

«Foreign government - owned news organizations, including China Daily, the English - language newspaper owned by China's government, register under FARA.

DAMAC, the company partnering on Trump's new golf course in Dubai, awarded a multimillion - dollar contract to a firm owned by the Chinese government — violating the president's promise to avoid foreign government transactions while he's in office.

The law applies to companies that are owned or controlled by foreign governments.»

Omitting or limiting these core provisions enabled the Chinese government to continue legislating in favour of Chinese state - owned enterprises and avoided recourse to international arbitration by foreign investors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a conference call with reporters on Thursday said he was concerned hackers, perhaps backed by a foreign government, could «wreak havoc» in New York elections, including his own bid for a third term.

More and more, Edward becomes informed on the questionable and intrusive tracking, legal manipulation, and data collection being secretly conducted by the U.S. government on not only foreign threats, but its own citizens without formal warrants, court orders, or proper search - and - seizure procedures.

In this situation, the foreign bank will not be FCA - regulated but it may still be regulated by its government's own protection scheme.

Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnerships.

While Alexander von Humboldt's observations on the aesthetics of the continent's extraordinary scenery were influential, it was only after the colonies obtained independence from Spain that the New World opened up to the gaze of foreign artists who arrived individually, drawn by their own aesthetic interests, or collectively in commercial missions dispatched by foreign governments.

In his own words, Paglen's artistic project is to create «new metaphors» for the «invisible war» — the weaponization of space, the militarization of the internet, mass surveillance, and counterintelligence efforts by U.S. and foreign governments over the past 15 years, most of which remain classified.

The United States carries tremendous debts, much of it owned by foreigners and foreign governments, other countries» sovereign wealth funds are looking to acquire chunks of the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollars is the world's reserve currency primarily because of inertia rather than our economic strength, and we ship money abroad every day to buy plasma tvs and gasoline.

Jennifer Kennedy, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, explains that things tightened up in 2012 following the government's approval of two foreign bids: the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation's $ 15.1 - billion acquisition of Nexen Inc. and the $ 5.2 - billion acquisition of Progress Energy by Malaysian - owned Petronas.

Finally, Akande writes, «[o] ne further area where there is reason to be cautious about the application of international law by national courts is when those national courts seek to apply international law not against their own governments but against foreign governments.»

Telecommunications equipment or services produced or provided by an entity that the head of the relevant agency reasonably believes to be an entity owned or controlled by, or otherwise connected to, the government of a covered foreign country.