Once European
trade barriers against Canadian icewines and non-VQA table wines were lifted, a flood of new labels replaced it.
The policies are being championed by Japan, but have met some resistance from developing countries who fear that they may be a means of introducing
trade barriers against less efficiently manufactured products.
«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new
trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.
Not exact matches
Asian companies protested
against this favoritism that discriminates
against Japanese firms that have relocated in the United States to take advantage of a tariff and non-tariff
trade barriers.
On climate change, Macron predicted the U.S. would return to the Paris climate agreement because «Let's face it: There is no planet B.» On the U.S.'s aluminum and steel tariffs (to which Trump has offered Europe only a temporary exemption), Macron warned
against trade barriers, noting that «commercial war is not the proper answer.»
Word of the announcement came as the Trump administration on Wednesday warned that it would vigorously defend U.S. national interests
against «hostile» powers such as China and Russia, vowing to use «all available tools» to combat unfair practices - a sign that the president may be preparing to erect new
trade barriers.
After decades of tearing down
barriers to
trade, a backlash
against globalization has triggered a move toward the reimposition of
trade obstacles.
«We applaud US government efforts to eliminate these
barriers and strengthen our competitiveness globally, including the World
Trade Organization (WTO) challenge
against Canada which seeks to ensure that British Columbia grocery store consumers can choose from the vast array of the world's great wines.»
Or a country can raise
barriers against products that are considered to be
traded unfairly from specific countries.
If a «health justified»
trade barrier here was permitted to override EU
trade rules, overseas governments could use spuriously based health justified
barriers to apply discriminatory measures
against scotch whisky.
The AP article on the bill cites a 2006 survey of economists wherein 90 percent of those surveyed came out
against such «protectionist tariffs and
trade barriers,» and Matt Welch at Reason's Hit & Run blog has some harsh words about the idea.