Sentences with phrase «trade pact»
A trade pact is an agreement made by multiple countries to reduce barriers to trade and increase economic cooperation. It helps countries trade goods and services more easily with each other, often by reducing tariffs or duties on imports and exports. The purpose is to promote economic growth and create more opportunities for businesses in those countries. Full definition
He also said he wants South Korea to pay the cost of the U.S. THAAD anti-missile defense system, which he estimated at $ 1 billion, and intends to renegotiate or terminate a U.S. free trade pact with South Korea because of a deep trade deficit with Seoul.
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The Kremlin says that Russia and its ex-Soviet allies will sign a free trade pact with Iran.
Since taking office, Trump has taken a hard line on trade, abandoning a 14 - nation Pacific trade pact and threatening to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.
The freshly inked Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP)-- the biggest trade pact in two decades encompassing 40 percent of the world economy — may be hailed as transformational, but it will take many years before the economic benefits are actually felt, say analysts.
The Trans - Pacific Partnership can't come into force without the support of the United States, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said the day after Donald Trump promised to withdraw the U.S. from the 12 - country trade pact on his first day in office.
He also said Trump has sent mixed messages, including signaling that he may now be interested in re-engaging in the 11 - nation Trans - Pacific Partnership trade pact that he dropped out of after he was elected.
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Trump is currently debating U.S. participation in NAFTA, the iconic 24 - year - old trade pact with Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. and South Korea have agreed on a revised trade pact that provides relief from U.S. tariffs on steel, senior Trump administration officials said on Tuesday.
He noted that one - fifth of all jobs in New York State depend upon international trade, and that his own district garners some $ 612 million a year from exports, all of which he argued would be endangered should other nations negotiate trade pacts without the United States.
Conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats in Congress are jockeying to nix both trade pacts for different reasons, according to a recent story in the New York Times.
In his first week in office, Trump withdrew the US from the huge free trade pact after criticizing it sharply as a bad deal for American workers on the campaign trail.
Will Canada walk away from the 11 - country trade pact if it doesn't include several new «progressive» chapters Canada has been pushing for?
Ron Kirk, the U.S. Trade Representative, is seeking to negotiate a Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement that has the potential to be the most important regional trade pact ever entered into by the United States.
While tech goods are already face no tariffs under NAFTA and industry representatives said there are no data flow restrictions in the region hampering trade, U.S. firms want an updated NAFTA to help them access other markets by serving as a tech template for future trade pacts.
Fast - tracking flawed trade pacts is a deal - breaker.
When asked whether Japan would be open to negotiating a bilateral trade pact with the United States, Ishihara said it was still uncertain whether U.S. trade officials would start such negotiations.
When Schwanen compares this Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with other bilateral agreements we've signed (the last international trade pact Canada signed was with Latvia), however, he notes that it contains more concessions.
Their concern stems from testimony Thursday by International Trade Minister Francois - Philippe Champagne, who said he doesn't see Parliament ratifying the 11 - country Pacific Rim trade pact before this fall.
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.
America's eagerness to strike a deal on its biggest trade pact comes as U.S. stocks tumbled, falling in seven of their last 10 trading sessions on concern President Donald Trump's protectionism could spark a trade war.
October 26, 2016 • Thursday was to be signing day for a major trade pact between Canada and the European Union.
This sudden surge in affection for the Canada - US - Mexico trade pact first implemented in 1994 doesn't necessarily equate to a belief that it will remain intact, however.
For Canada, it would mark the biggest bilateral deal in decades, while China would score its first trade pact with a G7 country.
The government is pursuing trade pacts with more than two dozen nations, according to Industry Canada.
The general consensus is that trade pacts also could be really good for small businesses seeking to grow.
The recently announced trade pact is «a very strong card» to play in any future negotiations, the president said.
And Trump seemed to take a softer tone toward multilateral trade pacts.
As the fourth round of talks in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation begins this week near Washington, a consensus is growing that a series of untenable U.S. bargaining positions is part of simple plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to lay the groundwork so he can walk away from the continental trade pact to please his domestic base.
Their agreement on a free - trade pact timed with the G20 meeting in Germany can be as substantive as it is symbolic, raising the key question of whether it might serve as a turning point for the United States as the Trump administration decides on its future trade agenda.
Among those on the dais was Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat with whom he quarreled bitterly in the spring over legislation authorizing him to negotiate trade pacts like one with 11 other Pacific Rim nations.
«Yes, he's unpredictable,» says another Canadian corporate bigwig in Palm Beach, who worries about a Trumpian America retreating from the world, and abandoning trade pacts.
LET IT RING: A proposed trade pact between the United States and South Korea demonstrates the close ties symbolized by the Korean Friendship Bell in Los Angeles.
The ruling was handed down as negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico met in Ottawa to negotiate reforms to Nafta, a sprawling trade pact that has guided the North American economy since 1994.
American negotiators are working to rewrite trade pacts with Mexico and South Korea, in large part because these countries run large bilateral trade surpluses with the United States.
In a statement Tuesday, Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Secretary, said the administration would ultimately reduce the trade deficit by enforcing trade rules, renegotiating existing trade pacts and forming new ones.
The most anti-trade U.S. presidential candidate in decades, he's called NAFTA «a disaster» and threatened to pull out of the historic trade pact.
But Ottawa has other trade pacts in the works, and a flexible currency would help cushion any blow.
The reason: Canadian officials said Wednesday it's increasingly likely that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to dump the trillion - dollar trade pact.
November 3, 2017 — When President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Trans - Pacific Partnership in the days following his inauguration, many thought it would signal the death of, what was at the time, the globe's largest trade pact.
From launching a data - mining drive aiming to find supply - chain pressure points to sending officials to mobilize allies in key U.S. states, Mexico and Canada are bolstering their defenses of a regional trade pact President Donald Trump vows to rewrite.
Mr Obama is currently in Germany where he is keen to hammer out a controversial American — European trade pact.
He told officials from both countries he will not pull out of the Clinton - era trade pact, instead vowing to rework the deal.
This culminated in Mr. Recchia's embarrassing, blundering response when asked about his stance on the Trans Pacific Partnership, which he seemed unable to describe beyond its initials — despite having just held an event about the massive trade pact with labor leaders.
June 29, 2016 • Is Donald Trump's assertion that the U.S. steel industry fell victim to dumping, unfair trade pacts and self - serving politicians accurate?
There's the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act (which has its 40th anniversary on Tuesday), treaties and trade pacts aimed at conserving biological diversity, the moratorium on whale hunts.