Sentences with phrase «trade negotiator»

President Donald Trump ordered his chief trade negotiator to consider imposing tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion of Chinese products Thursday, in a dramatic escalation of his trade war with China.

In 1981, he joined Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), serving as a trade lawyer, a trade negotiator at HQ as with the Canadian Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Korea.

As a trade negotiator, Mr. Woods played a key role in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations.

Of course Obama would be the candidate more likely to engage in tariff wars to defend domestic industries, at least unionized ones, so perhaps McCain should hire him as trade negotiator.

Chiarelli thinks that Chara would make a shrewd general manager (if not an intimidating trade negotiator on the draft floor).

From then on, my life was occupied by college, graduate school, and a high - flying career as an international economist and trade negotiator in Washington, DC.

«The fact that we have the Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement as a fall back gives us greater leverage in a negotiation,» said trade lawyer Matthew Kronby, a former Canadian trade negotiator who is now a partner at law firm Bennett Jones in Toronto.

You don't have to be a professional trade negotiator to be skeptical of the idea that U.S. President Donald Trump decided to exempt Canada from his steel and aluminum tariffs simply because that nice, good looking guy who's prime minister of Canada phoned to plead on behalf of Canada's steel and aluminum producers.

On Thursday, Trump ordered his chief trade negotiator to consider imposing tariffs on an additional $ 100 billion of Chinese products.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator said on Tuesday he was not looking to negotiate changes to China's state - driven economic system in trade talks in Beijing this week but would seek to expose it to more foreign competition.

You want someone who can run a meeting so that everyone feels like they've been listened to — and not somebody running their own agenda,» Wendy Cutler, a 30 - year veteran trade negotiator for the US government, told me.

But Trump and his chief trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, don't see it that way.

International trade laws limit the type of help governments can provide to companies, but the role of the Chinese government is particularly opaque, said Mark Wu, a professor of law at Harvard and a former United States trade negotiator in the administration of President George W. Bush.

«This was a defensive tweak,» says Michael Hart, a professor of trade policy at Carleton University and former Canadian trade negotiator.

«If you know a Canadian trade negotiator, please give them a hug.

«He has done incredible damage to our relationship with Mexico, some to Canada and a lot to the European Union, all of which was not necessary and not desirable,» said Shapiro, who served as a trade negotiator during PresidentBill Clinton's administration and helped complete the North American Free Trade Agreement.

President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said he hoped to further open China's economy to U.S. companies.

Also, U.S. President Donald Trump's chief trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, said he hoped to further open China's economy to U.S. companies.

The Republican presidential front - runner's campaign pledges to impose 45 percent tariffs on all imports from China and 35 percent on many goods from Mexico would spark financial market turmoil and possibly even a recession, former trade negotiators, trade lawyers, economists and business executives told Reuters.

A summary of the proposal, seen by Reuters and circulating among auto industry officials based on descriptions from Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators, would require the $ 16 wage on work comprising 40 percent of the value of light - duty passenger vehicles and 45 percent for pickup trucks.

NAFTA renegotiations too will have their domestic redlines; the trade negotiators will see these, but Trump may not.

U.S., Mexican, and Canadian trade negotiators meet this week in Washington DC for the first of seven lightning rounds to reshape what Trump calls the «the worst trade deal» ever signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

Efforts by Trump and U.S. trade negotiators to link the NAFTA trade pact talks to the duties received short shrift from Ottawa and Mexico City.

While Bolivia is marginalized by the powers that be at the WTO, its views probably are more mainstream than those of most trade negotiators.

Canadian free trade negotiators are going all - out to get a deal with the EU on a new free trade agreement.

Canada and U.S. trade negotiators working to expand markets for GMOs don't only have a problem with individual European Union states like France.

In this case, the somnambulism was based on misplaced optimism that trade negotiators would be able to solve the NAFTA problems, blithely ignoring the significance of President Donald Trump's repeated declarations that the agreement was the worst deal in history and constantly threatening to walk out unless the U.S. got what it wanted in the renegotiating process.

Trade negotiators from the U.S. and China are in Beijing digging in for the first round of what they expect to be recurring, difficult talks...

«I think our trade negotiators have profoundly failed Canadians and our future innovators.

«In addition to specific information, we asked Arkansas businesses to communicate their thoughts, concerns and observations about the proposed tariffs in order to ensure those views are heard by our elected officials and trade negotiators in Washington.»

On Friday, trade negotiators began the second round of efforts to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Various media said Trump was considering detonating the trade equivalent of a nuclear option — an executive order to withdraw from the trade agreement, which would instill fear in members of Congress, industry and Canadian and Mexican trade negotiators.

A parliamentary committee has told the government's Brexit and trade negotiators that they must not sacrifice Britain's high food standards in order to secure trade deals.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

It will be well understood by the trade negotiators we would sit down with if substantial talks did open with Canada, or China, or India, or the US.

Some DIT trade negotiators and experts are expected initially also to carry out work for the Brexit ministry, officially known as the Department for Exiting the European Union, as the UK seeks to thrash out its new relationship with the EU before spring 2019.

I think it helps when trade delegations, banks, trade negotiators and such folk arrange actual deals.

Different countries will have different ways of ensuring that their trade negotiators have effective access to the expertise within their governments.

«They don't have a bevy of trade negotiators in Britain anymore — trade negotiations for the last number of decades have been handled by the EU,» he says.

Not exact matches

Only after this issue has been fixed along with the question of citizens» rights and the Irish border, will negotiators be able to focus on trade.

The Brexit schedule would have the U.K. leave the EU in March 2019, but negotiators have so far been unable to indicate what sort of trading relationship will exist between the two sides at that point.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

It now looks impossible for negotiators to meet their goal of getting an agreement by the end of this month, especially amid the prospect of escalating trade tensions from the steel dispute.

It could be seen as a gesture of goodwill for Canadian and Mexican negotiators who are in talks with the U.S. to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.

China will refuse to discuss Trump's two toughest trade demands when American negotiators arrive in Beijing this week, potentially forcing Washington to escalate the dispute or back down, The New York Times reports.

The three nations have vowed to continue talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) through March, but the yawning disagreements on core U.S. demands are piling pressure on negotiators to come up with fixes before Mexico's 2018 presidential campaign begins in the spring.

Malaysia's trade minister said negotiators from the remaining TPP countries would be in «constant communication» to decide the best way forward.

Early in Trump's presidency, Ross was his go - to negotiator, helming the administration's trade talks with the Chinese.

Early in the morning of October 5th, negotiators in Atlanta were busy ironing out the final creases of contention between the 12 parties to the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP)-- an ambitious deal that will help liberalize trade, increase market...

Trudeau will head into his meeting with Trump after talks with the influential House of Representatives» Ways and Means committee, one of two bodies of U.S. lawmakers helping negotiators put forward the U.S. positions on trade.