Sentences with phrase «trade secretary called»
The international trade secretary called for loyalty in the Tory ranks to make «an overdue and spectacular comeback» and he implored his fellow MPs «to act with an increased sense of discipline».
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Trump called it a «ridiculous situation» before handing over his podium to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to briefly discuss a trade deal with South Korea.
In a statement Friday from the IMF meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the IMF to «step up to the plate» to call out countries engaged in unfair trade practices — a frequent refrain from the Trump administration is that its trade penalty threats are not protectionist, but simply seeking «fair» exchange.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, calling for free and fair trade, said the latest data show that there is much work to be done on trade agreements.
Liu He, a Chinese vice premier and economic adviser to President Xi Jinping, told Steven Mnuchin, the American Treasury secretary, in a phone call just more than a week ago that the two countries should «stay rational and work together to maintain the overall stability of their economic and trade relations.»
«President Trump made it clear from day one that unfair trade practices will not be tolerated under this administration,» Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on a conference call with industry executives.
Also this month, a group of more than 30 US Senators issued an almost identical call in a letter to US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, and US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk.
The illegal wildlife trade also rapidly climbed the U.S. policy agenda, partly motivated by the «Call to Action» issued by then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The FSB expressed concern after Business Secretary Lord Mandelson rebuffed calls to extend the trade credit insurance scheme beyond 31 December, as reported in the Financial Times.
That the former general secretary of the Communication Workers» Union had the audacity to attack the trade union movement in the organ that they most despise, Progress, ensured that this former comrade had joined the dead roll - call of «Blairite zombies».
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn opened a fresh Brexit split inside Labour today after distancing himself from a call by his own Shadow International Trade Secretary for Britain to leave the customs union.
Brexit Secretary David Davis, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Trade Secretary Liam Fox are concerned that proposals for a so - called «customs partnership» could water down the commitment.
The department is separately probing whether international trade minister Mark Garnier breached the ministerial code after he reportedly admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys and calling her «sugar tits».
But in a statement from the Nigerian Wailers signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Fasipe Oluyemi, the group has called on the good people of Nigeria to come out en mass for a protest (#OccupyCBN) to stop this impunity of the Fraudulent Forex Trading, Round Tripping and racketeering going on in the Central Bank of Nigeria aided by its Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and bring to an end the Manipulation of Forex, illegally funding Federal Government budget, short - changing the Money Deposit Bank's reserve ratio at the expense of the Masses as the abuse of internal process.
«Mr Balls, the shadow education secretary, called on supporters to back Miss Abbott during an event held by the GMB trade union, saying that it was important for a woman to be in the race.»
It follows claims International Trade Minister Mark Garnier asked his secretary to buy sex toys and called her «sugar tits».
Yesterday Labour's Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner laughed off the Unite leader's comments Labour couldn't win the General Election calling it «media spin».
Trade unions of university professors and researchers called on the new government to make the nomination of a new secretary of state an «occasion for real political change, the one that [Fioraso] failed to bring.»
Governor Alexander, who would go on to become secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush and is now a U.S. senator, was more colloquial in his description, calling the program «an old - fashioned horse trade with teachers.
And Secretary Kerry must know that the Obama administration is already playing a role in pushing tar sands oil exports as a «free trade» issue, to which an investigative report in the February 13 issue of Rolling Stone called attention: