Sentences with phrase «trade sanctions»

There is little point in imposing trade sanctions on someone to force them to do something they would be doing anyway.

But the president stopped short of imposing trade sanctions.

This penalty would be in the form of international trade sanctions.

... Secondary enforcement can come from trade sanctions, but this typically would be unnecessary.

A6 Is it really worth the business risk and reputation to overcome trade sanctions?

The EU has mulled striking back with trade sanctions on US agriculture, as well as on symbolic products like Harley - Davidson motorcycles, Kentucky bourbon, and bluejeans.

The Associated Press reported in early July that the bank violated U.S. trade sanctions by processing transactions for clients in Cuba, Iran and Sudan.

ZTE was forced to pay $ 892 million to the United States government in 2016 after pleading guilty to violating U.S. trade sanctions on Iran, and the fine resulted in the company posting a loss during the 12 - month period, although ZTE did state that -LSB-...]

On the other hand, some developed countries are pressing for trade sanctions against states found to violate human rights, especially human rights standards that are generally based on the Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labor Organization.

An export ban could be imposed, depending on the findings of the U.S. court on the company's alleged violation of trade sanctions against North Korea and Iran.

Rapidly developed in the mid-1990s as a result of threatening US trade sanctions on Japanese luxury cars, the LX 450 started production in November 1995 [4] and was released to the US in January 1996 as a 1996 model; Canada received the LX from 1997.

If the EU does not comply with the WTO ruling, it could have to pay the price in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in trade sanctions.

If China doesn't agree, Senator Kerry said the U.S. is also considering trade sanctions in the form of carbon tariffs to try to bully China at the negotiating table.

«There is every reason to believe that businesses need to be prepared for a series of trade sanctions between the U.S. and its key trading partners in 2018, and sooner rather than later,» Steve Okun, president for the Asia Business Trade Association, told CNBC in an email after the address.

Legislation, such as trade sanctions, also has been used to penalize nations that oppress religious believers.

A Devon MP has called for an end to Russian trade sanctions which are «disproportionately» hitting UK pork and dairy farmers.

However, more serious reactions, like trade sanctions or military retaliation, would further escalate the situation and might cause more harm than good for the country.

He submitted the evidence to the United Nations Security Council, which then put trade sanctions on Liberian timber.

Norway's insistence on killing whales has finally unleashed the full force of international disapproval — in the shape of threatened trade sanctions by the US.

After these amendments were passed in the mid-1980's, the Reagan Administration asked Japan to comply with the IWC moratorium on whaling or face trade sanctions and loss of fishing rights in U.S. waters.

ZTE is also working its reputation up after accepting a record fine from the Department of Justice for breaching trade sanctions.

«The U.S. is wielding the big stick of trade sanctions while keeping saying they are willing to talk.

All have eventually run afoul of their boss, who alternates between lavishing praise on Xi one day and threatening China with ruinous trade sanctions the next.

The tariffs would be the first time the Trump administration has directly targeted China with big trade sanctions.

Yet the United States could face a challenge in crafting trade sanctions that circumvent allies and target China.

The Commerce Department will impose the tariffs under a rarely used law that allows emergency trade sanctions for «national security.»

The Wolf - Specter Bill, Wolf says, now focuses on restricting government aid, not trade sanctions, to encourage change.

The co-operative cited a spike in the Australian dollar and a global dairy market that continues to weaken after China slashed its spending on bulk dairy imports and amid Russia's ongoing trade sanctions on many western products.

Weighing trade sanctions, Trump said he's «considering all options» to address an influx of cheap aluminum and steel imports into the United States.

Meanwhile a bonfire of EU trade sanctions would create employment through increased trade with non-EU nations.

South Korea has filed $ 711 million worth of annual trade sanctions with the WTO as a response, but China's adherence to WTO rules has been questionable since it joined and it has only filed for a discussion with the US.

This weekend's agreement by nearly 200 members of the Montreal Protocol will be legally binding, inviting trade sanctions for countries that fail to live up to their obligations.

Developing nations say the Bush team threatened them with trade sanctions if they didn't yield on issues of interest to them.

If ratified, this treaty will be legally binding and enforceable through trade sanctions.

Moreover, Iceland faces an imminent Pelly Certification and possible trade sanctions by the United States for continuing to defy the IWC commercial whaling ban.

And, if conflict is unavoidable, lawmakers and regulators must consider that relatively few cases are actually litigated, and penalties in the form of retaliatory trade sanctions are subject to negotiation.

Likewise, countries with a large industrial agribusiness sector, like Brazil and Argentina, feared the imposition of trade sanctions because cattle ranching and soy production are directly tied to deforestation and increased carbon emissions.

Advising on financial and trade sanctions legislation, including setting up compliance systems, and on the impact of sanctions legislation on existing operations.

The extensive work force behind a Vatier international business lawyer in France also handles the interpretation and application of preferential trade agreements between the EU and its major trading partners, as well as the interpretation and compliance with EU, U.S. and UN trade sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has allegedly sent his hackers out to swipe digital coins as his country faces tightening trade sanctions.

Cross-exchange data from CoinMarketCap reveals the extent of bear sentiment arising from the confused situation in Seoul and the news of additional trading sanctions from Beijing.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and individuals.

Like most countries, Canada has an economic and trade sanctions regime in place.

In 1988 and 2000, federal officials considered imposing trade sanctions against Japan because Japan violated international whaling rules.