Sentences with phrase «trade negotiators»

WASHINGTON 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.

«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.

The U.S. trade negotiator said at her last news conference: «Why should it have to come together at exactly the same time?

«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.

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.

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.

Trump and his top trade negotiator, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, justify their revival of protectionism by pointing to the big gap between American imports and exports.

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.

«The remedies, in my judgment at least, would be one, doing something on the tariff front, and two, doing something on the investment front, and then perhaps other things,» said Lighthizer, a lawyer and veteran trade negotiator.

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 that don't produce an immediate settlement.

I hear that his best friends the Australians are going out of their way to try to paper over the indignity of his position... so they're going to have informal discussions with Australian trade negotiators who have made it quite clear that they have absolutely no intention of signing a trade deal until the much more lengthy, complex business of us extracting ourselves from the European Union starts.

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.

Canada's trade negotiators know they are in tough as they gather in Mexico City for the fifth round of talks on overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement this week.

He has served as a lead trade negotiator for the United States in both Republican and Democratic Administrations.

Frost is leaving his role as chief executive of the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) to advise Johnson on foreign affairs, having worked previously worked as a government trade negotiator and diplomat.

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.

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.

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.

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

After Trump pulled out of TPP talks in January 2017, the other countries» trade negotiators carried on without the US, and in March they signed an agreement between themselves.

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.

While in Hangzhou, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also discussed a free trade agreement with his British counterpart, Theresa May, and said Australia had sent trade negotiators to Britain to help begin work on the deal.

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

The disadvantages, like the lack of trained trade negotiators or the punishing Article 50 timetable, it did little to address.

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.

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.

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.

But in recent weeks, a group of White House advisers who advocate a tougher posture on trade has been in ascendance, including Robert E. Lighthizer, the country's top trade negotiator and a former steel industry lawyer; Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary who led the metals investigation; and Peter Navarro, a trade skeptic who had been sidelined but is now in line for a promotion.

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.

«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.»

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

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

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

«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.

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

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.

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

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

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

On Dec. 6, Robert E. Lighthizer, the president's chief trade negotiator, had a contentious discussion of administration trade policy with members of the US - China Business Council's board of directors, which includes the chief executives of companies such as Chubb Insurance and General Motors, according to three executives familiar with the session who asked for anonymity to describe a confidential meeting.

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.

In a letter to U.S. trade negotiators (see below), NMPF and USDEC members expressed strong hopes that TPP negotiations will result in a final package that can garner the endorsement of the U.S. dairy industry without requiring a re-examination of the industry's support for Trade Promotion Authority as a critical tool in the approval of well - negotiated trade agreements.

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.

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.

Except that we barely have any trade negotiators or experts for our EU talks, let alone to conduct parallel talks at the WTO.