Sentences with phrase «unilaterally impose tariffs»

The system seems especially important today in light of big cases where the US is trying to unilaterally impose tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and Canadian aircraft for allegedly violating rules governing fair trade.

This law also allows the US to unilaterally impose tariffs on a foreign country's exports or restrict its access to the US market.

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Then again, it's also unclear how a president — any president — would unilaterally impose a 35 % tariff...

If Republicans are able to get a veto - proof majority to back some kind of bill limiting Trump's authority to issue tariffs, it would echo the time when Republicans forced Trump to impose sanctions on Russia last August and locked old sanctions against the country into law instead of leaving them as executive orders that Trump could unilaterally rescind.

Instead, unilaterally imposing a 19th century tariff policy is a sure way to alienate Washington's closest friends and ensure that other, less democratically - minded, states might become tomorrow's «greatest nation on earth.»