Sentences with phrase «trade liberalization»

Trade liberalization refers to the process of reducing or removing barriers and restrictions on the international exchange of goods and services between countries. It involves policies and agreements that aim to promote and facilitate more open and free trade, such as reducing tariffs (taxes on imported goods), eliminating quotas (limits on the quantity of goods that can be imported or exported), and minimizing regulatory barriers. The goal of trade liberalization is to boost economic growth, enhance competition, and provide consumers with a wider range of choices at lower prices. Full definition
To this, Neuwirth suggests a form of trade liberalization more radical than most so - called free traders will be willing to swallow.
While economists can agree that trade liberalization benefits economies at the macro level, at the micro level there are always those who see welfare gains, and those whose immediate welfare is reduced as a result of the (necessary) changes in the economy brought about by greater overall efficiencies.
Within Canada the term has come to represent a desire to make trade liberalization more inclusive — to convince Canadians that the results will be of overall benefit to Canada.
Hosted by China's Ministry of Commerce and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, with support from the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, the event aims to promote trade liberalization and economic globalization, and actively open the Chinese market to the world.
As I discussed, the economic benefits we have experienced from trade liberalization were not only in expanding the markets for Canadian exports.
This is a vision more befitting our time, one that does not look back to a heavy industry, carbon polluting economy, now infeasible as it imperils a warming planet and can not be remade in a globally competitive market unlike the period prior to global trade liberalization of the early 1970s.
And there is a plethora of structural policies that can raise trend economic growth — such as trade liberalization or labour market reform — which are being actively discussed by the G20.
In other words, the Fathers and framers intended to make trade liberalization a sweeping constitutional force that would limit the legislative powers of Ottawa and the provinces that are set out in sections 91 and 92 of the BNA Act.
The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, raves about the economic benefits of trade liberalization on its website.
But Chinese officials balked at European demands for trade liberalization and formal assurances that Beijing will scale back excess production by Chinese steel companies.
The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim of adding billions of dollars to the global economy and lifting millions of people out of poverty through trade liberalization.
Nowhere is U.S. President Donald Trump's antipathy for multilateral trade liberalization hitting harder than in Europe and Japan.
Ottawa's exploratory talks on a free trade agreement with China further aligns Canada with the summit's emphasis on greater trade liberalization.
Corporate concerns were only inflamed by President Trump's Asia trip, which showcased his «America First» trade policy and left the United States isolated as 11 other nations agreed to new trade liberalization measures.
Those who lose ground due to trade liberalization typically capture the lion's share of the headlines.
Yes, open markets bring challenges, but the benefits of trade liberalization invariably outweigh the costs.
With the CETA, Canada can reclaim its former role as a leader in the global move toward trade liberalization.
An OECD study said trade liberalization would reduce Canadian retail milk prices by 26 per cent, butter by 46 per cent, cheese by 33 per cent.
Since World War II, developed countries, especially the U.S., have championed trade liberalization, having learned from the ill effects of trade protectionism during the interwar years.
They have tended on the whole to oppose trade liberalization treaties such as NAFTA and currently WTO.
The way forward is not wholesale trade liberalization as being trumpeted by the SAP parties.
John Asafu - Adjaye is an environmental economist whose current research activities include investigating the relationships between trade liberalization, agriculture and the environment.
To the extent that knowledge of, say, green technologies (the know - how rather than the physical good) or best practices to lower the carbon footprint of the operations of a particular heavy industry leads to a decrease in resource inputs and resulting waste streams (and hence material flow), this premise holds water, and points to a different, softer path towards trade liberalization.
Trade liberalization in forest products can enhance competition and can make improved forest management practices more economically attractive in mature markets (Clarke, 2000).
Trade liberalization by itself does not help the poor.
G - 20: The Group of 20 major economies wrapped up their annual summit, held in Hangzhou, China, with a stronger commitment to coordinate policies to support growth and promote trade liberalization.
Ultimately, consumers are the key beneficiaries from trade liberalization.
In the non-system of floating exchange rates not balancing cross external accounts, this global trade liberalization has opened vast opportunities for cost arbitrage at the expense of workers in higher cost developed countries.
Will trade liberalization benefit those countries that have large trade deficits in services?
Trade liberalization has long been seen, with reason, as the silent force that weighed down manufacturing wages, shuttered factories and sent work overseas — for all the net benefits it provided to society at large, it also left entire communities reeling.
The agreement may have accelerated the trade liberalization that was already taking place, but many of these changes may have taken place with or without an agreement.»
The other trend I think we'll see reverse is trade liberalization — another tenet of the Reagan - Thatcher cabal.
Back in New York, Prime Minister Stephen Harper proceeded to address Rubin's somewhat indelicate question by listing a number of policies Ottawa hopes will spur Canada to catch up to its southern neighbour, or at least get closer to it: investment incentives for the manufacturing sector, more trade liberalization, and using government money to encourage the commercialization of research and development activities.
Another key avenue shared by all economies is trade liberalization.
A key component was trade liberalization, both with Europe (Canada and the EU have just announced the preliminary conclusion of the CETA — the Canada - EU Trade Agreement) and Asia.
Trade Liberalization and Transportation in International Trade, Canada in the Atlantic Economy 8, by John M. Munro.
Trade Liberalization and the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, Canada in the Atlantic Economy 5, by W.E. Haviland, N.S. Takacsy, and E.M. Cape.
The Impact of Trade Liberalization 2, edited by H. Edward English, comprising two studies in the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series: No. 7, Trade Liberalization and the Canadian Steel Industry, by Jacques Singer (1969); and No. 8, Trade Liberalization and Transportation in International Trade, by John N. Munro (1969).
Trade Liberalization and the Canadian Furniture Industry, Canada in the Atlantic Economy 6, by David E. Bond and Ronald J. Wonnacott.
Regional and Adjustment Aspects of Trade Liberalization, edited by H. Edward English, comprising two studies in the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series: No. 11, Trade Liberalization and a Regional Economy: Studies of the Impact of Free Trade on British Columbia, by Ronald A. Shearer, John H. Young, and Gordon R. Munro (1971); and No. 12, Industrial Viability in a Free Trade Economy: A Program of Adjustment Policies for Canada, by Roy A. Matthews (1971).
This strategy would also bolster Canada's effectiveness in international leadership, trade liberalization and responsible development.
The TPP excluded China due in part to concerns that it was unable or unwilling to adopt and enforce the trade liberalization policies required by the TPP.
As for the supposed economic benefits of CETA, the reality is that there is no clear empirical data that trade liberalization is the engine of growth, and there is no credible evidence that unregulated trade benefits everyone equally.
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