Sentences with phrase «trade treaties at»

The UK (and indeed any country) doesn't really need trade treaties at all, just «anything you want to sell here must meet our laws».

French foreign minister says dispute between U.S. courts, French bank puts U.S. / EU trade treaty at risk, Reuters

Not exact matches

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

Because of the resistance of countries of the South at the INTO Ministerial Conference in Singapore in December 1996, the issue of the foreign - investment treaty was assigned to a working group «to examine the relationship between trade and investment».

Gochicoa went on to state: «In a free - trade treaty like the one we are looking at now, the only way to protect one's brand and quality is with an official Mexican standard and a designation of origin.»

Thursday Questions — Energy and climate change Business Statement - Leader of the House Motion — Reform of the court of justice of the EU Motion — European document relating to the EU draft budget Motion — European document relating to EU human rights strategy Adjournment — Arms trade treaty negotiations at the UN

Reviving tensions between the two coalition parties after Mr Cameron vetoed a treaty to help rescue the euro at this month's Brussels summit, Mr Huhne warned the isolationist approach favoured by Tory sceptics would be disastrous for British jobs and trade and foreign investment in this country.

The signing was attended by Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of China's influential economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), Todd Stern, the lead U.S. climate treaty negotiator at the U.S. State Department, Obama adviser John Podesta and Lee Zak, director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

The treaty puts off for 2 years the issue that kept the United States and European Union at each other's throats until early morning in Montreal: whether to legislate the trade of GMOs that are not likely to propagate in the environment.

Ordinary dividends on stocks of non-U.S. companies qualify to be taxed at a lower 20 % maximum tax rate if the stock is traded on a U.S. exchange, the corporation is headquartered in a country where the United States has a tax treaty, or the corporation is incorporated in a U.S. possession.

«His threat to rip up existing treaties and impose new tariffs — even if there are limits to what can actually be accomplished under executive authority — would disrupt global supply chains, jeopardizing the integrated international trade system that has been the key foundation of decades of global growth and prosperity,» warned Stephen Rogers, an investment strategist at Investors Group, in a white paper released before Americans cast their ballots.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto, Kozan moved at age 28 to the treaty port of Yokohama, a former fishing village that by 1870 was a burgeoning center for international trade.

Implementing a CO2 NAAQS set at 350 parts per million would require a much higher degree of economic sacrifice than would be demanded by either the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade bill or the Copenhagen climate treaty, which aimed to stabilize CO2 - equivalent greenhouse gases at 450 parts per million by 2050.

This year Dr Pachauri joined the New York investment fund Pegasus as a «strategic adviser», and was made chairman of the advisory board to the Asian Development Bank, strongly supportive of CDM trading, whose CEO warned that failure to agree a treaty at Copenhagen would lead to a collapse of the carbon market.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

While our political leaders are running around debating cap and trade, emissions treaties, fracking, or worse yet just ignoring the fossil fuel problem, Amory Lovins and his dedicated gang at the Rocky Mountain Institute have quietly put together the manifesto for achieving the era of sustainable energy.

As is noted at NoCapAndTrade.com, Coca - Cola is a target of a boycott against companies who support cap and trade legislation, or the proposed Copenhagen climate treaty (which is designed to implement global cap and trade regulations of carbon dioxide).

10 On the other hand, if Korea complied with the treaty and had a domestic CO2 price of at least $ 25 per ton of CO2, its trade would be treated as normal international commerce with no border tax adjustments.

Justice Binnie went on to discuss the distinction between a commercial right to fish and a right to trade for necessaries, noting that «catch limits» enabling the Mi» kmaq to produce a moderate livelihood «at present - day standards» can be established and enforced by regulation without violating the treaty right.13

Notable mandates: principal negotiator and senior legal counsel to the Algonquins of Ontario in ongoing treaty negotiations in a land claim that covers most of eastern Ontario, including the nation's capital, and in which more than 1.2 million people reside; representing USW Local 2251, the largest local union at Essar Steel Algoma Inc., in the Algoma CCAA restructuring; two significant insurance coverage appellate victories, Urbanmine Inc. et al v. St Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company et al and Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada v. Intact Insurance Company; acting for North American Fur Auctions, successor to the original Hudson's Bay fur trading business, in connection with the amendment, restatement and re-syndication of a credit facility to include Export Development Canada; acted for La Caisse Centrale Desjardins du Québec with respect to credit facilities to finance the construction of a highrise condominium complex containing an affordable housing component

A termination of additional BITs by Indonesia would ironically come at a time when many of Indonesia's neighbours such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand are negotiating the Trans - Pacific Partnership Agreement, a 12 - country multilateral trade and investment treaty which it is understood will likely include an Investment Chapter providing for recourse to arbitration.

In general, subject to the discussion below under the headings «Information Reporting and Backup Withholding» and «Foreign Accounts,» distributions, if any, paid on our common stock to a Non-U.S. Holder (to the extent paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles) will constitute dividends and be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a rate equal to 30 % of the gross amount of the dividend, or a lower rate prescribed by an applicable income tax treaty, unless the dividends are effectively connected with a trade or business carried on by the Non-U.S. Holder within the United States.