Sentences with phrase «trade negotiator said»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

«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 Agreetrade negotiator during PresidentBill Clinton's administration and helped complete the North American Free Trade AgreeTrade Agreement.

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

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

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.

Farmers are among America's largest exporters, and often become a target in trade spats, said Darci Vetter, the former chief agricultural negotiator for the United States trade representative.

And John M. Weekes, Canada's negotiator for the North American Free Trade Agreement in the early 1990s, said the president's «notion is going down very badly in Canada.»

Daniel Schwanen, the Toronto - based C. D. Howe Institute's resident expert on trade and international policy, says one possibility is that negotiators will quickly prioritize a short list of topics truly up for serious discussion.

Negotiators this week will try to advance on the most contentious issues, including automotive rules, investment dispute settlement and procurement, while also attempting to finish work on less sensitive topics where there's more consensus, such as telecommunications, digital trade and energy, the people said.

But it would be inflammatory,» said Jon Johnson, a negotiator in the original Canada-U.S. trade agreement, a government adviser on NAFTA and now a C.D. Howe Institute analyst.

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.

«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.

Clarke said Britain would lose out in global trade talks to emerging economies if it left the EU, warning negotiators would be «outgunned by the Americans».

European negotiators are keen to ensure a «level playing field» for trade between Britain and the EU27, said Tomlinson, which means meeting similar environmental standards.

«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.