Sentences with phrase «senior trade officials»

Senior trade officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet again in Washington in an intensified push to reach a NAFTA agreement in the next few weeks.

A letter from 15 trade associations representing over 30,000 US steel - using manufacturers and employing one million American workers was sent to President Donald Trump and senior trade officials earlier this week.

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At a news conference following a series of meetings with senior U.S. trade officials and lawmakers in Washington, Guajardo said that Mexico was still trying to understand the U.S. proposals that would require 50 % of vehicles» value content be produced in the United States as part of updated North American Free Trade Agreement rtrade officials and lawmakers in Washington, Guajardo said that Mexico was still trying to understand the U.S. proposals that would require 50 % of vehicles» value content be produced in the United States as part of updated North American Free Trade Agreement rTrade Agreement rules.

«They won't liberalize dairy very much,» said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a former U.S. Treasury international trade official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C. «They might do some token stuff on ice cream but it won't amount to anything.»

«The United States will not receive any fast - track access to this agreement if they choose to return one day,» a senior Canadian trade official told a teleconference Thursday from Santiago, Chile.

Those top 60 companies initiated almost 1,100 meetings with senior federal officials last year alone, while their five most active trade associations initiated another 729 meetings.

A China - based business source with knowledge of discussion among senior European officials said there had been a «clear effort» by the U.S. government over the past six months to introduce a coordinated approach to Chinese industrial policy, but that Trump's proposed metals tariffs under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 had undermined support from Europe.

Senior officials at South Korea's financial watchdog have compared speculative trading in bitcoin to a «Ponzi scheme» and say they are mulling a ban.

The EU's position is «close to the US», according to a senior official, although the Europeans insist this should be handled in accordance with World Trade Organisation rules.

Bittrex, a U.S. - based trading platform for cryptocurrencies, announced the hiring of three senior executives, including two former U.S. government officials, to help manage the company's rapid growth and ensure compliance with the emerging legal and regulatory environment.

Porter had been organizing weekly trade meetings in which senior officials and Cabinet secretaries debated the merits of the proposals.

«We needed a very senior voice in China especially because we are launching exploratory trade talks,» a senior official said.

There have been phone discussions and the sharing of e-mails with senior officials such Jared Kushner, the president - elect's son - in - law, who has been given special responsibility for trade.

Phil Levy, who was a senior official on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, told me that his rule of thumb for characterizing something as a trade war is that the escalation of trade barriers is «uncontrolled.»

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and other senior economic officials will meet with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday to discuss the two countries» trade disagreemTrade Representative Robert Lighthizer, and other senior economic officials will meet with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday to discuss the two countries» trade disagreemtrade disagreements.

With mounting uncertainty over the future of the North American free - trade agreement and more states eyeing possible Buy American rules, Ontario is keeping the policy ready in case it is needed, a senior government official told The Globe and Mail.

The Chinese premier and other senior officials met David Cameron and other coalition figures in a summit this morning, as British officials furthered their goal of securing $ 100 billion of bilateral trade with China by 2015.

In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a senior official at a city agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.

In 2016, as federal investigators dug into allegations that Mayor Bill de Blasio traded favors for political donations, a senior official at a city agency at the center of the probe was demoted and given a sharp pay cut.

The 51 - year - old was active in the trade union movement and was a senior elected official with the Civil and Public Services Association then later the Public and Commercial Services Union.

Federal law forbids senior government officials from owning, trading, or purchasing properties that pose a direct conflict of interest with their official roles, explained Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen.

At this year's Global Pet Expo, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) hosted productvie discussions between a senior U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official and more than 40 executives and others in the responsible pet trade.

IFCOT is an annual international travel trade summit organized by PATA and Ivy Alliance, and has been held for ten times with thousands of participants, including industry elites, senior officials of destinations tourism departments, experts and media that come from over 70 countries.

IFCOT is an annual international travel trade summit organised by PATA and Ivy Alliance, and the past ten events has attracted thousands of participants, including industry elites, senior officials of destinations tourism departments, experts and media from over 70 countries and destinations.

UN News Center: With the kick - off of the United Nations post-2015 sustainable development agenda fast approaching, ministers and senior Government officials from across the globe have gathered in Cotonou, Benin, today to discuss how to strengthen the world's 48 least developed countries to produce more goods and trade in international markets more efficiently.

The senior White House official told me that they were exploring an energy deal that would include a «serious» and «short - term» increase in domestic production — perhaps opening up for oil exploration places like the waters off the coast of California — that would appease the «Drill, baby, drill» crowd, while also adopting a cap - and - trade plan that could take effect one or two (or more) years after 2012, which is when Obama's current plan would start.

A senior White House official told The New Yorker that the administration was exploring a deal that would include a cap - and - trade system and «serious» and «short - term» increases in domestic oil production in places like the California coastal region.

A senior administration official, speaking on background, suggested cap and trade would be in the budget because Obama campaigned on it.

The US team includes former senior officials of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission, the SEC and two former General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporatio

Mr. Ryan formerly served as a senior official with the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Advising on numerous potentially sensitive dismissals, including senior board executives; head teachers; trade union officials; repeat tribunal claimants;

Another senior administration official defended Mnuchin, noting that after getting the order from Trump, he told the Staff Secretary and had multiple conversations with trade representative Bob Lighthizer, who worked in lockstep with him on this.

TOKYO (AP)-- A senior U.S. Treasury official touring Asia has urged banks and financial regulators in the region and elsewhere to do more to tighten oversight of booming trading i

Policymakers around the world may debate ways to deal with the volatility of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies but imposing global, across - the - board regulations on their trading won't be easy, a senior Bank of Japan official said on Thursday.

A senior official at asset management giant BlackRock said this week that he doesn't see the case for a bitcoin exchange - traded fund (ETF).

SEOUL — South Korea has yet to decide how to regulate crypotocurrency trading, a senior government official said, highlighting Seoul's struggles to supervise a market that critics say remains opaque and vulnerable to risks such as money laundering.

A former senior U.S. official blocked Moscow - based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab from joining a prominent trade group made up of...

A senior Hong Kong treasury official has said blockchain could bolster China's ongoing efforts to significantly expand its trade capabilities.

A senior official at the People's Bank of China is reportedly calling for a wider ban on services related to cryptocurrency trading in the country.

Last week, a senior tax official said as many as 400,000 - 500,000 bitcoin adopters are set to receive notices wherein «they will have to pay capital gains tax on the bitcoin investments and trade.»

Overall, Abyzov is the latest senior official from the Russian government to openly support a more accommodative environment for cryptocurrency trading activity.