Sentences with phrase «regional trade pact»

Ron Kirk, the U.S. Trade Representative, is seeking to negotiate a Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement that has the potential to be the most important regional trade pact ever entered into by the United States.

From launching a data - mining drive aiming to find supply - chain pressure points to sending officials to mobilize allies in key U.S. states, Mexico and Canada are bolstering their defenses of a regional trade pact President Donald Trump vows to rewrite.

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.

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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.

Teachout called for rejecting the deal outright, renegotiating existing trade agreements with China and Mexico and limiting future trade deals to bi-lateral rather than regional pacts.

Without aggressive enforcement of state rules, standards, or pacts — roughly half the states are members of regional cap - and - trade initiatives, for example — the United States could achieve only a 12 % cut below 2005 levels by 2020.