"For countries that have many trade barriers against us, we should logically have similar trade barriers against them," said Ross.
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Beijing has said it would be willing to reduce some trade barriers, but only if the United States also lowered trade barriers.
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Countries with the lowest trade barriers (Singapore, Switzerland) have some of the biggest trade surpluses, while countries with high trade barriers (Brazil, India) have trade deficits.
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The damage to the U.S. economy from trade barriers to date remains modest and reversible, but a prolonged stalemate involving ongoing trade barriers would impose much more severe costs.
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They measure support for trade barriers, globalisation and free markets.
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Potential trade barriers also could boost inflation and cut growth.
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But, no, look, getting trade barriers down is absolutely essential.
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The ideal is "no (trade) barriers ... no subsidies," said Trump.
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THEY ARE PUTTING UP TRADE BARRIERS, THEY'RE CLOSING MARKETS, JIM.
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Truly reducing services trade barriers would make the TPP worthwhile.
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The delay did not mollify critics of the trade barriers.
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Norquist said he supports the goal of removing trade barriers.
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All countries in the agreement should be jettisoning trade barriers.
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Falling trade barriers let firms move production to low-cost places.
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And I think trade barriers and tariffs are a bad idea.
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But if the trade barriers persist, projects could be in jeopardy.
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The reconstruction of trade barriers would put all that in jeopardy.
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High trade barriers have not come down since Jokowi became president.
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They must open their markets and take down their trade barriers!
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His desired trade barriers will reduce wages rather than raise them.
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The trade barriers that would presumably go up are entirely artificial.
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They would face new trade barriers and an uncertain legal environment.
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Other countries' trade barriers and tariffs have been destroying their businesses.
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That would result in new trade barriers and snarled supply chains.
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Trump tweeted on Sunday that China will remove its trade barriers.
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Canada has all sorts of trade barriers on our Agricultural products.
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Finally, the case for low trade barriers is not simply theoretical.
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The U.S. would also like the Chinese to minimize trade barriers.
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Second, Trump thinks that trade barriers will protect the US. Nonsense.
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There is near consensus that fewer trade barriers means healthier populations.
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U.S. trade barriers, on the contrary, focus more narrowly on steel.
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And even before any trade barriers are erected, growth could slow.
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Both sides have agreed to open talks designed to reduce trade barriers.
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The bloc aims to ultimately remove trade barriers and tariffs between members.
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The bloc aims to ultimately remove trade barriers and tariffs between members.
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These longstanding trade barriers take a major toll on the trade relationship.
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It would reduce trade barriers across a range of goods and services.
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That would result in new trade barriers and higher costs for businesses.
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That means eliminating remaining distortions and trade barriers that constrain market access.
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And that means not so much in the way of trade barriers.
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But new trade barriers on nuclear fuel could further strain the industry.
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McKinley was becoming an advocate of lowering trade barriers through reciprocal agreements.
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Even so, new trade barriers are something the UK economy cannot afford.
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To the Japanese, Mr. Trump's accusations about trade barriers can seem bizarre.
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That law allows USTR to take unilateral action against unfair trade barriers.
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Starting in 2013, Commerce Ministry officials have suggested they might lower China's own automotive trade barriers once Chinese manufacturers were ready to sell abroad, to prevent them from being used as justification by other countries for reciprocal trade barriers.
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They don't mention the fact that they have trade barriers against our farmers.
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And some of the recent activity would have happened without new trade barriers.
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Growers could be particularly hard hit if Brexit led to new trade barriers.
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Fewer trade barriers allow producers to have a longer, more-efficient supply chain.
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But the main industry that thrives thanks to Nigeria's trade barriers is corruption.
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America will never again export low-value manufactured goods, trade barriers or none.
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NAFTA took effect in 1994 to lower trade barriers among the three countries.
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A country like China has distinctly higher trade barriers than the United States.
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The lesson of the last two years is clear: trade barriers don't work.
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Devaluing currencies or imposing trade barriers are untenable ways to promote trade advantage.
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Yet its fishermen rely on European markets where new trade barriers look certain.
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They want lower trade barriers and a level playing field for private businesses.
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Big trade barriers against U.S. farmers, and other businesses, will finally be broken.
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Stocks slipped on growing fears of a global race to erect trade barriers.
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Loss of market access and new trade barriers for the UK's service sector.
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Traditionally, trade deals focused on reducing trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas.
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That agreement would have greatly reduced trade barriers facing American products in a range of Asian markets with partners who already face low U.S. trade barriers while knitting together an economic alliance that benefits the United States and leaves out China.
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Both Britain's finance ministry and almost all external economists have forecast that increased trade barriers will cause Britain's economy to grow more slowly than if it were to stay in the EU, and the damage increases as trade barriers rise.
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TiSA would seek to lower trade barriers for finance, telecommunications and other service industries.
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He wants you to believe that erecting trade barriers will bring back good jobs.
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"China may not be that vulnerable to trade barriers in the U.S.," Jen wrote.
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But British exporters would face new trade barriers in the European Union and beyond.
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Treaties allowed once poor countries to hit American products with tariffs and trade barriers.
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DUDLEY: WELL, IF TRADE BARRIERS GO UP, IT'S JUST BAD FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY.
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That would trigger new trade barriers and likely plunge the United Kingdom into recession.
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Trade barriers play a big role when American companies evaluate expansion to foreign markets.
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It's also a welcome reminder that trade barriers can fall as well as rise.
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The leadership took a huge risk relaxing thousands of tariffs and other trade barriers.
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"Many countries charge us extraordinarily high tariffs or create impossible trade barriers," he said.
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Those duties have been suspended while the two sides negotiate over reducing trade barriers.
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Limiting access to Chinese consumers through non-trade barriers could hurt American firms' profits.
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He said the two sides would work to lower tariffs and other trade barriers.
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We are depending on trade or on low trade barriers between the main markets.
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It also agreed to lower trade barriers to vehicles imported from the United States.
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Still, consumers ultimately pay the bill for trade barriers in one way or another.
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Beijing's non-tariff trade barriers, including forced technology transfers, have long hurt American businesses.
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He gave no specifics on how China might lower its own steep trade barriers.
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We have endured tremendous economic and non-economic trade barriers in our international growth.
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Paradoxically, simpler agreements could go further than existing lengthy agreements in eliminating trade barriers.
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He wasn't going to reduce US trade barriers unless our trading partners did likewise.
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China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada have retaliated against Trump's previous trade barriers.
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Hassett has also advocated for lowering trade barriers, in contrast to his new boss.
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Traditional free trade agreements aim to lower trade barriers between the countries signing them.
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Yet the TPP could bring about significant reductions in trade barriers for certain products.
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It could become more modest and focus on what it's good at: scrapping trade barriers.
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"I think increasing trade barriers is the wrong way to go for business," he said.
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But additional trade barriers could also spell more trouble for the largest U.S. company, Apple.
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Germany's export-reliant economy is particularly affected by weaker global demand and rising trade barriers.
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By removing the recently implemented trade barriers and by avoiding further barriers in whatever form.
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Such parties typically favour trade barriers and limits on immigration, and are gaining in popularity.
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But there is still the swingeing cost to longer-term growth from higher trade barriers.
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Just as bad would be the other sorts of trade barriers that would spring up.
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IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath offers simple advice: undo trade barriers and curb geopolitical tensions.
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China will take down its Trade Barriers because it is the right thing to do.
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The SWA called for government help to overcome trade barriers and protect jobs in Scotland.
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Germanys export-reliant economy is particularly affected by weaker global demand and rising trade barriers.
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The mutual objective is to reduce trade barriers and strengthen investment protections across the board.
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And although trade barriers are helpful for those who are protected, they hurt other businesses.
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But the world has enjoyed growing prosperity over decades because of continuously reduced trade barriers.
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Nor is it clear that removing all trade barriers would eliminate the U.S. trade deficit.
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Tariffs and other trade barriers represent a destructive force for an otherwise thriving U.S. economy.
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But it is in America's and the world's interest to reverse EU agricultural trade barriers.
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Moreover, slapping trade barriers against China would do little to narrow the American trade deficit.
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A trade war ensues when a foreign country retaliates with trade barriers of its own.
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Our national problem of orchestrated trade barriers and manipulated hyper-consumption is not primarily economic.
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Trade barriers make Americans as a whole poorer and they especially harm those already disadvantaged.
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Trade barriers make Americans as a whole poorer and they especially harm those already disadvantaged.
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The founders recognized how important it was to prevent artificial trade barriers between the states.
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He said the U.S. and E.U. would work to lower tariffs and other trade barriers.
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But an accord does little to reduce the trade barriers Mr. Trump has already erected.
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Businesses are also racing to reorient their supply chains as they await new trade barriers.
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Hundreds of factories were shut down because of a lack of parts and trade barriers.
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And UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the US should lower its trade barriers.
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The program has also become a hindrance to lowering foreign trade barriers to American exporters.
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A disorderly exit would result in new costs and trade barriers for companies in Britain.
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If ultimately incorporated into an agreement, these objectives would comprehensively address most digital trade barriers.
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Haass says presidents seeking lower trade barriers may turn toward arrangements not requiring congressional approval.
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Reducing trade barriers on services requires regulatory harmonisation, which the 303 WTO members find very hard.
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Trade barriers now being put up could soon push central banks to cut their growth projections.
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Broad trade barriers would upset America's allies, invite retaliation and raise costs for American steel consumers.
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"You're going to hurt 70 percent of the economy" with big new trade barriers, Bernstein said.
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Significant trade barriers, especially non-tariff, and connectivity and infrastructure challenges are other obstacles, it said.
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Whirlpool (WHR) plans to ask U.S. officials to impose trade barriers on imports of washing machines.
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Social media companies also have a lot to lose to data regulation and overseas trade barriers.
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And fear, too, goes deeper than fretting about fresh trade barriers or pressure on public housing.
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Trade barriers, which prevent such advances, are a futile, self-defeating way to help the unskilled.
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But the agreement left many fundamental issues unresolved, including forced technology transfers and other trade barriers.
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Trump said trade barriers must come down since the US sends substantial foreign aid to Nigeria.
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Trade barriers are seven times higher than the average for emerging markets, according to the IMF.
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Building up US trade barriers, he argued, will help tear down barriers other countries have built.
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Currency devaluation translates faster into competitive advantage, but trade barriers can maintain an edge for longer.
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Under the new paradigm, the U.S. will no longer go after any and all trade barriers.
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Higher trade barriers and slower growth would ripple through to impact other business costs, said Sanchez.
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U.S. negotiators should press China for protection for intellectual property, lower trade barriers, and market reforms.
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Ryan said he encouraged him to emphasize their shared goal of reducing and eliminating trade barriers.
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But most United States exports to Mexico are also exempted from tariffs and other trade barriers.
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But Ross also said Washington wants Latin American nations to do more to reduce trade barriers.
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His offshoring activities are not unusual in an era when globalization has lowered international trade barriers.
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"The erection of 'trade barriers' allowed X and Y to follow divergent paths," Dr. Page said.
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Yes, the world would be a better place if there were no trade barriers at all.
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Trade barriers must be taken down to enhance economic growth in America and around the world.
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However, he said the trade barriers have not forced Shell to cancel any future investments yet.
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And the reason is simple: trade barriers will do heavy damage to domestic solar manufacturers, too.
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At Mr. Reid's factory, talk of a bountiful future through trade barriers resonates as dangerous nonsense.
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It said that trade barriers were the main risk for Germany, whose economy is export-oriented.
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The single market removes non-tariff trade barriers, too, for instance by maintaining common product standards.
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May's Brexit deal, heightening fears of a disorderly no-deal Brexit and of new trade barriers.
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Canada has said that it does not believe that any trade barriers on metals are warranted.
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So for the moment, trade barriers remain quite low, advocates say, where they might well stay.
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Both leaders should use the time to find areas where they could remove trade barriers, May said.
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But the belief that a wall and trade barriers would prevent this from happening is completely misguided.
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Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United States.
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To rebuild the world economy, the U.S. worked to reduce trade barriers and spread free-market capitalism.
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As for the long-term, there will be uncertainty over regulation and trade barriers following a Brexit.
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Mr Ross has said that his first emphasis will be boosting American exports by removing trade barriers.
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Europe agreed to increase purchases of U.S. liquefied natural gas and lower trade barriers to American soybeans.
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The next president threatens to erect trade barriers, which would disrupt supply chains and dampen productivity growth.
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Working with partners such as Japan, we need to tear down trade barriers—not erect new ones.
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America's next president threatens to erect trade barriers, which would disrupt supply chains and dampen productivity growth.
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While the Chinese Foreign Ministry quickly tried to stave off tariffs and trade barriers threatened by Trump.
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It is expected to compensate trade partners who lose out by lowering trade barriers in other areas.
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Now, let's look at how China has retaliated with tariffs and new trade barriers of its own.
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Trade barriers impose large costs on everyone—even countries, like America, that import more than the export.
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Such tit-for-tat retaliation is intended to demonstrate that trade barriers make industries weaker, not stronger.
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Protectionism ran rampant in the 1930s, but not all economies were equally keen to raise trade barriers.
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Gretchen Watkins, president of Shell Oil, said trade barriers are especially disruptive if they impact ongoing projects.
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Thus far, the strategy of pressuring countries to lower trade barriers by imposing U.S. restrictions has backfired.
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We support this shared vision for the elimination of trade barriers and increased access to global markets.
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At the same time, the U.S. and the EU are seeking common ground on lowering trade barriers.
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That would mean new trade barriers, and disruption to supply chains for food, medicines and manufactured goods.
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That may be good politics, but unless trade barriers are reduced, the exercise is not very useful.
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Trade barriers shield domestic industry from competition, so coddled industries will suffer when these barriers are lowered.
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There simply aren't new markets sitting around waiting to soak up goods diverted by China's trade barriers.
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After a long period of protectionist policies, Mexico went through major economic reforms, including decreasing trade barriers.
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"We applaud both governments for working together constructively to reduce trade barriers and open markets," Hinrichs said.
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But reigning in trade through trade wars and trade barriers adds insult to injury for American workers.
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But the evidence shows that tariffs and other trade barriers have essentially no effect on trade deficits.
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That means high trade barriers will remain in effect with little sign of coming down anytime soon.
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Both Mr. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China have declared their desire to reduce trade barriers.
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Washington was in the midst of a bipartisan rush to cut spending, regulations, trade barriers and taxes.
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By contrast, 60% of Democrats said increased trade barriers are a major threat, versus 17% of Republicans.
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Trade talks had broken down earlier this year, leading to increases in trade barriers over the summer.
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And you can't have this smooth exchange of goods and money if you erect big trade barriers.
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Rather than erect trade barriers, economies should encourage competition which boosts innovation and raises productivity, she said.
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U.S. businesses and other advocates are increasingly optimistic that the last trade barriers with Cuba are crumbling.
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Trump has gradually increased trade barriers, particularly with China, in an effort to develop leverage in negotiations.
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On top of that, the European Union takes total advantage of us with tariffs and with trade barriers.
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HOW MUCH CONCERN ARE SUCH TRADE BARRIERS AND WHAT KIND OF EFFECTS WILL THEY HAVE ON THE ECONOMY?
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Sometimes he talks of tariffs as tools to bully others into taking down trade barriers of their own.
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The TPP is designed to reduce trade barriers among members, which would open new markets for American exports.
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However, Trump has refrained from such measures while Washington and Brussels undertake talks to cut other trade barriers.
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The United States is threatening to impose trade barriers against other countries to protect such industries as steel.
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We've had things mentioned like tariffs being slapped on Chinese or on others, all kinds of trade barriers.
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LARRY KUDLOW: Well, look, the President—again, the basic thrust of his policy is to lower trade barriers.
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They have trade barriers that make it impossible for certain groups, like farmers and others, to go in.
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An increase in trade barriers threatens to exacerbate a slowdown in Chinese growth that could dent fuel demand.
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Trade tensions remain in some major economies, raising the risk that trade barriers increase and undermine global growth.
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Since then he has floated the currency, cut taxes and trade barriers and eliminated thousands of public jobs.
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Any hint of protectionism is also likely to worry EU leaders, who seek to break down trade barriers.
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The steel industry in particular has been a fierce opponent of any loosening of trade barriers against China.
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Whirlpool – The appliance maker plans to ask U.S. officials to impose trade barriers on imports of washing machines.
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It also represents potential risks that new trade barriers could pose for businesses and residents along the border.
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"Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs, all trade barriers," he announced in jest as Trudeau grinned nearby.
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On the other hand, it does make sense to push for lower trade barriers from our trading partners.
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The U.S. and China are nowhere close to resolving their deepening feud over tariffs and other trade barriers.
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And those are the ones that come from-- too high tariff barriers, too high non-tariff trade barriers.
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Many Americans blame low trade barriers for the loss of blue-collar jobs, but there is competing evidence.
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Harley's facility in Thailand, for instance, will allow it to tap Southeast Asian markets with minimal trade barriers.
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WTO rules allow members to cite a national security exception to erect trade barriers in times of war.
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The main question is if this happens through the fire of trade barriers or the ice of demographics.
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But if he and his president are actually serious about it, tariffs and trade barriers will be involved.
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The U.S. has repeatedly accused China of unfair trade barriers, as well as theft of U.S. intellectual property.
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Gabriel said such trade barriers would make cars in the United States more expensive and of poorer quality.
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This could lead to the perception that additional trade barriers for foreign imports would give them less competition.
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The critical takeaway is that the distortions brought about by trade barriers impose a cost on the economy.
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Mr. Trump has long championed trade barriers as a way to protect United States manufacturers from foreign competitors.
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By lowering its trade barriers, a government enriches its citizens regardless of the policies implemented by foreign governments.
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Crashing out of the European Union would result in new costs and trade barriers for companies in Britain.
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Nations across Africa are pursuing a large-scale effort to break down trade barriers and integrate their economies.
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Third, Trump believes that US trade barriers will crush China and sustain American global economic and military dominance.
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Volkswagen would also suffer if Donald J. Trump followed through on plans to raise trade barriers with Mexico.
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European leaders criticize President Donald Trump's tactics but share U.S. complaints about Chinese industrial policies and trade barriers.
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Ives said that Apple's tight-knit relationships with Chinese suppliers are unlikely to be threatened by trade barriers.
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In it, he argues that investors have focused on pro-growth policies, while ignoring protectionism and trade barriers.
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But the sudden imposition of new tariffs or other trade barriers today isn't the same as a time machine.
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However, he has refrained from such a measure while Washington and Brussels undertake talks to cut other trade barriers.
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Economists predict the Canadian economy could lose at least 1.5 percent of GDP because of such new trade barriers.
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So erecting across-the-board trade barriers could hurt the very manufacturing industries Trump says he's trying to help.
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Japan's protectionist trade barriers are so restrictive that in 1989 the Reagan administration labeled Japan an unfair trading partner.
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The scandal came at a sensitive moment as the EU and Mercosur sit down to negotiate lowering trade barriers.
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The goal here is to tear down foreign trade barriers and make China and others play by the rules.
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The Trump administration's willingness to use trade barriers as geopolitical weapons remains a key risk to the global economy.
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That is because slashing trade barriers on services requires regulatory harmonisation, which is tough to agree between 164 members.
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But when trade barriers go up, countries can hurt themselves, leading to higher prices, potential shortages and unhappy customers.
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Abe's government has also proposed reforms to domestic regulations and trade barriers that protect Japanese industries but stifle growth.
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Obama, a Democrat, has loosened travel restrictions to the once-forbidden land as well as some other trade barriers.
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Gonand based his estimate on academic research on the role trade barriers play in reducing foreign investment and competition.
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Merkel said there was a broad agreement among G7 leaders that tariffs and other trade barriers should be reduced.
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Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, cautioned Trump earlier on Wednesday against erecting new trade barriers.
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He did, after all, suggest that the G7 countries all eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers with each other.
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Doing so would be a massive blow to decades of work toward lowering trade barriers and syncing international standards.
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In their joint statement, the two leaders agreed to work towards eliminating tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers and subsidies.
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U.S. policy should be focused on lowering trade barriers, and TPA is a crucial element in accomplishing that goal.
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China right now has major trade barriers -- they're major tariffs -- and also major non-tariff barriers, which are brutal.
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"The increase in trade barriers has an immediate negative impact on UK foreign and domestic demand," the IMF said.
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But the quantitative importance of current trade barriers for U.S. economic growth thus far appears to be quite limited.
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"Tensions leading to higher trade barriers and greater uncertainty pose significant downside risks to trade growth forecasts," it added.
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The U.S. is pressing China to agree to guidelines on intellectual property, technology theft, and non-tariff trade barriers.
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No one who opposes free trade in any fundamental or ideological way would seriously propose eliminating all trade barriers.
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The U.S. is reportedly pressing China to agree to guidelines on intellectual property, technology theft and nontariff trade barriers.
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We don't need government trade barriers and "Buy American" rules to make us buy what our fellow Americans produce.
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The avenue that countries use to lower their trade barriers are free trade agreements, which Trump is skeptical of.
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Since the United States already had low trade barriers, trade agreements lowered our partners' tariffs more than our own.
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Cutting these trade barriers to zero would be an extraordinarily complex political challenge on both sides of the Atlantic.
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But he has refrained from such a measure while Washington and Brussels undertake talks to cut other trade barriers.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's tariffs were initially seen as a cudgel to force other countries to drop their trade barriers.
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The agreement took effect in March 2012, cutting almost all tariffs and many other trade barriers between the countries.
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Mr. Trump sold his trade disputes with China, Canada, Mexico and Europe as an effort to lower trade barriers.
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If you think anything that helps China or anything that helps Huawei helps China, then we're talking trade barriers.
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The climate club could blow up if nonmembers retaliated against import tariffs by imposing trade barriers of their own.
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It's an agreement setting rules for trade between the countries and limiting the trade barriers each country can enact.
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So nations were allowed to impose tariffs and other trade barriers under certain limited conditions, like sudden import surges.
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Meanwhile, the European Union also inked a trade deal with Japan, which lowered trade barriers for their pork exports.
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But urgency toward a deal appears to have faded, with both leaders appearing content for trade barriers to continue.
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German automotive trade body VDA said any suggestions about mutually removing tariffs and other trade barriers were positive signals.
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President Trump has promised to protect those jobs, and stricter trade barriers would be a good place to start.
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Increased trade barriers could also incentivize Chinese firms to build more factories directly in the U.S., some analysts said.
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U.S.-India trade is "defying gravity" and continues to grow despite trade barriers on both sides, Rossow told CNBC.
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It's possible that American exporters face more trade barriers abroad, forcing the U.S. government to retaliate against unfair practices.
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Free-market critics of the tax have suggested that border adjustments are tariffs and would thus erect trade barriers.
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TRUMP SAYS THE EU HAS CREATED TRADE BARRIERS, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT, I THINK WE'LL SOLVE IT
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To be sure, firms sheltered by trade barriers might benefit, but the overall economy is worse as a result.
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The demands include changes to China's policies on intellectual property protection, technology transfers, industrial subsidies and other trade barriers.
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NAFTA is, of course, a trilateral agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the US that aims to reduce trade barriers.
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Ironically, Harley is behaving just as Mr Trump wants, "tariff-hopping" to be on the right side of trade barriers.
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He argued bilateral deals offered better terms for U.S. businesses and workers, and signaled an intention to raise trade barriers.
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Chris Martin argues that throwing up trade barriers, dismantling NAFTA and building walls will only bring back more depressing days.
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It&aposs been stabilizing since World War II. But we need to reduce trade barriers between us and the Europeans.
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The second relates to renewed U.S. protectionism or anger over Chinese exports triggering tit-for-tat, growth-stifling trade barriers.
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Tokyo warned last year that Japanese companies would have to leave Britain if trade barriers from Brexit made business unprofitable.
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The agreement shies away from slashing subsidies or toppling tariffs, and instead hacks at the thicket of regulatory trade barriers.
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Poor infrastructure is not the only problem—bureaucracy and other trade barriers matter, too—but it is a significant one.
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The monitoring report said G20 economies also implemented 29 measures to reduce trade barriers during the period, covering $397.2 billion.
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German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned against the growing tide of protectionism, saying that tariffs and trade barriers helped nobody.
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While seeking more protection for the United States, Mr Lighthizer is pushing Canada and Mexico to lower their trade barriers.
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That's why we should do all we can to encourage exports by reducing tariff and non-tariff trade barriers alike.
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The steel industry in Europe, in particular, has been a fierce opponent of any loosening of trade barriers against China.
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The EU plans to relax trade barriers on certain goods from Jordan to create jobs for both locals and refugees.
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Senior administration officials have signaled they would press Japan to remove non-tariff trade barriers and buy more U.S. products.
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Broad reductions in trade barriers may look less alarming if governments retain the right to impede the most disruptive imports.
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Yet U.S. trade barriers — whether to retaliate or to foster better policies abroad — aren't going to reduce the trade deficit.
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PM Modi said there were no assurances for India on market access and non-trade barriers in the RCEP pact.
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He has said that such trade barriers are necessary to fight back against what he has deemed unfair trade practices.
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During that period it erected more trade barriers—from tariffs to subsidies to local-content rules—than most other countries.
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According to the World Economic Forum, American manufacturers face some of the steepest trade barriers for exports in the world.
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As Washington and Beijing square off with threats of tariffs and trade barriers, Qualcomm is a clear target for retaliation.
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The problem is that the Trump administration has not pushed very hard for new trade agreements that lower trade barriers.
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Crucially, if other countries (like China) continue to react with trade barriers of their own, the decline could be global.
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As the leader of the executive branch, Trump has broad abilities to impose tariffs and other trade barriers against countries.
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Initial pledges to increase purchases of U.S. liquefied natural gas and reduce trade barriers to American soybeans are small fry.
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Already, five Republican senators have signed on to an effort to rein in executive authority in imposing certain trade barriers.
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Trump campaigned on an "America First" platform, triggering concern that a new era of U.S. trade barriers might be ahead.
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The only way to lower trade barriers is through international cooperation that benefits both sides and allows for unrestricted growth.
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The upcoming negotiations between the U.S. and Europe are not guaranteed to produce an agreement that significantly reduces trade barriers.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has been ineffective as tariffs, trade barriers, quotas and regulations piled up on U.S. imports.
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The U.S. is reportedly pressing China to agree to guidelines on intellectual property, technology theft and non-tariff trade barriers.
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This would be a terrible idea since our participation has led to reduced trade barriers and increased prosperity for Americans.
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Trump's goal was to remove trade barriers so as to give U.S. exports a fair footing in Japan, he added.
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Abruptly leaving the European Union without a deal in place would mean new trade barriers and an uncertain legal environment.
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The height of national trade barriers is simply not correlated with the size of a country's trade surplus or deficit.
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At the Port of Charleston on Friday, as BMWs cycled out of the docks, trade barriers seemed a distant worry.
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Chinese officials have repeatedly said that they object to threats but do see room to reduce the country's trade barriers.
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Despite moves to lower trade barriers, protectionist policies remain entrenched in some of the largest countries, including Brazil and Argentina.
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The trade barriers are putting the United States, previously a steadfast advocate of global free trade, in an unfamiliar position.
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" Mr. Trump also disparaged Europe for placing trade barriers on American products and treating the United States "worse than China.
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However, the economic momentum has cooled down in the start of 2018 — something that higher trade barriers could dampen further.
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By contrast, East Asian countries that erected trade barriers and built competitive companies in a range of industries have prospered.
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Most emerging markets are primarily export-based economies, meaning that increasing trade barriers directly impact their ability to grow economically.
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And some diplomats say it's inevitable that governments will turn to trade barriers in the effort to fight climate change.
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Beijing has also agreed to address a number of longstanding non-tariff trade barriers to U.S. agricultural exports, Lighthizer said.
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The Trump administration is seeking to halt Chinese intellectual property theft, investment restrictions and other trade barriers imposed by Beijing.
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Nafta eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers among Canada, Mexico and the United States, creating a continent-size market.
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Lighthizer is an experienced trade attorney, so he'll know exactly which legal levers Trump can pull to erect trade barriers.
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Trump could try to mobilize those voters to put pressure on Republican members of Congress to support higher trade barriers.
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American manufacturers — concentrated in the big cities of the North — favored high trade barriers to protect them from foreign competitors.
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Kudlow also said that the United States and China should both take down trade barriers as part of any agreement.
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The United States has been clear we seek greater market access and the removal of trade barriers in our economic relationship.
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Trans Pacific Partnership is aimed at cutting trade barriers in some of the fastest-growing economies of the Asia-Pacific region.
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Trump agreed on Wednesday to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers.
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Or, will misguided protectionism and trade barriers go up all over the region, hurting workers and business all across the Pacific?
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Since 2002, average global support for trade barriers has remained relatively stable at around two-thirds of respondents (see chart 1).
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First, this means building on its strengths, not undermining them: removing trade barriers rather than lapsing into tariff wars, for example.
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But higher trade barriers are likely to hurt most economies, leaving even the winners with a smaller market to work with.
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Even Liam Fox, the pro-Brexit trade secretary, is clear that WTO rules cannot be used unilaterally to avert trade barriers.
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She said there was much more the government could do to make it easier while avoiding "protectionism" and other trade barriers.
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If these other countries are unwilling to lower their trade barriers, then a tariff would at least shut out their exports.
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This is at least the fourth such petition seeking trade barriers because of alleged national security concerns during the Trump administration.
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It lacks a previous U.S. demand to erect trade barriers to protect seasonal U.S. fruit and vegetable growers from Mexican competition.
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And, in order to eventually bring down all trade barriers, and that&aposs the goal, free and open and fair trade.
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Many emerging market and developing economies still maintain higher tariffs and other trade barriers that raise relative prices for domestic investors.
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And Cohn is reportedly the key voice militating against imposing trade barriers that would do serious damage to the US economy.
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Countries with more free trade partners enjoy lower trade barriers to export destinations around the world, and therefore attract more investment.
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"India has implemented a wide array of trade barriers that create serious negative effects on United States commerce," the USTR said.
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The sales announcement comes amid gathering gloom for the global auto industry, with major markets in decline and trade barriers looming.
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But, the U.S. and EU have since publicly disagreed on whether agricultural trade barriers would be part of the trade equation.
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The WTO body can order members to remove any trade barriers if it finds that the policies breach free trade rules.
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They profited from the dismantling of trade barriers, industrial growth and expansion of the state, which required unprecedented numbers of administrators.
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Politicians may well respond to their anger by taking a more populist tack, increasing taxes on business and raising trade barriers.
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We should support American farmers by fighting against trade barriers that are little more than greed wrapped in a green flag.
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Last week, Japanese businesses warned May that they would have to leave Britain if trade barriers after Brexit made them unprofitable.
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Their biggest fear is a scenario where the United Kingdom crashes out of the European Union, leading to new trade barriers.
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In this new term, Germany may face two major challenges; the first is the trade barriers that we have just mentioned.
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The U.S. is reportedly pressing China to agree to new rules on intellectual property, technology theft and non-tariff trade barriers.
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The governments are concerned about job security and cheap Chinese goods flooding the market due to decreased intra-continental trade barriers.
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However, if the final agreement includes Canada and reduces trade barriers, then this is a deal that will let people prosper.
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Some have warned they would have to quit the United Kingdom if trade barriers after Brexit wipe out their profit margins.
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The potential for reprisal has raised fears about a devastating series of trade barriers and damage to the American agricultural industry.
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During the summit, Trump demanded that G-7 countries reduce their trade barriers and defend the tariffs on aluminum and steel.
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An easy way to make consumption more affordable is to reduce trade barriers to international specialization and exchange, not increase them.
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European automakers are particularly vulnerable to trade barriers as parts can move across borders several times to make a finished product.
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However, US trade barriers are already quite low, and the TPP would also open up new markets — especially Japan — for exports.
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The removal of trade barriers led to a tripling of trade, but also a sharp in increase in the trade deficit.
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The government will remove trade barriers for such imports following a 2017 ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO), he said.
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"We want to compete and be able to sell abroad and make sure our government knocks down trade barriers," he said.
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Not only does the pact lower trade barriers, it could also prod Beijing to make changes to enjoy the same benefits.
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But Alcoa's request underscores the risk the Trump administration faces as it tries to protect American firms by erecting trade barriers.
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It is unclear if the Renault deal violates any unilateral United States trade barriers still in place against business with Iran.
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But we already have hundreds of tariffs and trade barriers on China for other exports, such as steel and aluminum foil.
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But his skepticism about lowering trade barriers proved prescient, and his unlikely candidacy presaged Donald J. Trump's outsider run in 33.
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Among the goals are to eliminate tariffs for non-auto industrial goods, and reduce trade barriers in services and medical devices.
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"The global economy will become more accessible and competitive, whether we try to remove trade barriers or impose them," he said.
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The slow pace of progress means that up to $1 trillion in UK trade remains exposed to new potential trade barriers.
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In fact, the surest way to eliminate all trade barriers would be through a simple, postcard-sized Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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The second deal focuses on digital products, such as digital media and software, which will face reduced trade barriers and tariffs.
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Like Trump, Warren's critics label her a "populist" whose policies will increase trade barriers and leave the U.S. economy worse off.
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Trump's protectionist trade policy has been a constant strain on the president's relationship with congressional Republicans who support reducing trade barriers.
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She declined to comment on Trump's latest remarks but said Germany fundamentally sought to lower trade barriers and promote free trade.
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But rebuilding trade barriers, particularly between the United States and Mexico, would forfeit the benefits of trade without reversing the damage.
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If the United States were to impose trade barriers on China, that might slow Chinese demand for Swiss-made textile machinery.
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Volkswagen also stands to lose if President-elect Donald J. Trump follows through on plans to raise trade barriers with Mexico.
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If Mr. Trump erects trade barriers, as he has threatened to do, European exporters would suffer along with the region's economy.
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Manufacturers worry that new trade barriers will obstruct both their international supply chains for parts, and the movement of finished products.
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A U.S. State Department spokesperson in Washington told Reuters that India should lower trade barriers, which were holding back economic ties.
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The Peterson analysts assumed that China and Mexico would retaliate by raising tariffs on American goods and imposing other trade barriers.
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The TPP is expected to reduce trade barriers among these countries, lowering tariffs on goods such as trucks, rice, and textiles.
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The administration had a hand in creating new markets for rural sectors by promoting exports and breaking down trade barriers, Vilsack said.
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Serra said improved U.S. relations were inevitable and will rely on easing trade barriers between the two largest economies in the Americas.
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When fully implemented, the trade deal will create a single market for goods and services by removing existing trade barriers across Africa.
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Trade barriers between the U.S. and China have created fears that a full-blown trade war could derail economies around the world.
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Johnson's deal is expected to put a lid on growth by erecting new trade barriers, which would hurt business operating in Britain.
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The market-friendly former businessman has pledged to revive Argentina's moribund, inflation-racked economy by reducing trade barriers and wooing foreign investment.
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But it hasn't kept up with the emergence of new major trading countries, advances in technology or new types of trade barriers.
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"It is always better to speak with one another than to torment one another with new tariffs and trade barriers," he added.
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Two of the world's most influential economic leaders have warned that there are troubling developments arising from increased trade barriers and tariffs.
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It would also be impossible to exploit the rules of the World Trade Organisation that can allow trade barriers to be avoided.
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They're having trouble agreeing on how to stop an escalating trade war, let alone figuring out how to reduce most trade barriers.
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European markets closed down on Monday afternoon as investors focused on the potential impact that trade barriers could have on global growth.
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But he has refrained from imposing car tariffs while the United States and European Union launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers.
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Trump defenders argue that his tariffs are a short-term tactic meant to shock other countries into lowering their own trade barriers.
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Official figures published Wednesday showed exporters in Europe's largest economy are being negatively impacted by a global slowdown and rising trade barriers.
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It's time for China to lift the trade barriers on U.S. beef so our 1.4 billion Chinese consumers can enjoy beef again.
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"TPP could reverse these trends by lowering trade barriers and solidifying trade relationships between the United States and regional partners," they wrote.
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Economically trade barriers are a bad and harmful idea, but what Findlay offers is a case study in the politics of trade.
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Remarkably, one of the aspects of NAFTA renegotiation could involve a discussion of moving away from the norm of zero trade barriers.
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Anti-dumping rules, like other trade barriers, cause economic harm by shrinking markets and excluding efficient producers, thereby raising prices for consumers.
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Canadian free-marketeers also hoped that the deal would force their government to dismantle convoluted internal trade barriers between provinces and territories.
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Xi, or his surrogates, should approach Trump with the same proposal: zero tariffs and trade barriers between the world's two largest economies.
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"The market development was affected by expectations of differing economic growth and uncertainty about the effects of increased trade barriers," Slyngstad said.
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Diplomats also say "232" duties risk undermining the global trading system if national security becomes an accepted excuse to erect trade barriers.
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But it is deeply entwined with China's electronic supply chain, making it highly vulnerable to collateral damage from U.S.-Sino trade barriers.
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"China will take down its trade barriers because it is the right thing to do," the president said on Twitter in April.
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The potential deal would involve China lowering its trade barriers and the U.S. exporting more goods such as agricultural and energy commodities.
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Always an ardent free-trader, the senator fused economic logic with a knowledge of history to argue that trade barriers hurt America.
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But TTIP's goal is to eliminate trade barriers, even if the public prefers them, to facilitate the smooth movement of corporate capital.
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Far from backing away from the tariffs, Trump may consider threatening new trade barriers at the meeting, according to The Washington Post.
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The risk is that such attitudes harden all around, with more trade barriers being erected, and possibly extending to industries beyond steel.
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"We want to compete and be able to sell abroad and make sure our government knocks down trade barriers," Maschhoff told CNBC.
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Diess said Monday that tariffs don't "make our life easier" and the German firm depended on low trade barriers to maintain margins.
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In the months before the G-20 summit, China was already lowering some trade barriers and opening some of its closed industries.
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That effectively means trade barriers in the Irish Sea, splitting Northern Ireland ever so slightly from the rest of the United Kingdom.
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The president also tweeted on Monday morning about trade, asserting that Canada has "all sorts of trade barriers" on American agricultural products.
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First, he said, the countries will seek to reach an "early harvest" agreement to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers for goods.
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This idea runs counter to the public's assumption that we benefit from lowering our trade barriers only if other governments lower theirs.
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President Trump, by contrast, has signaled a retreat and challenged old friends on trade barriers and the cost of American military outposts.
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And what I saw was on the one free trade agreement that's been modified in Korea, we didn't break down trade barriers.
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The fund now projects economic growth to be steady but slightly lower in 2019 because of higher interest rates and trade barriers.
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Responsible statesmen assuage the pain of economic dislocation without resorting to the palliative of populist "blame-the-foreigner" rhetoric and trade barriers.
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Kudlow said European leaders are considering trade requests from the Trump administration, which is seeking to eliminate tariffs and other trade barriers.
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MILAN (Reuters) - The risk of trade barriers and slowing global business activity has kept the European equity market in check this year.
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Since then, Canada's trade barriers have come under fire, including the tariff of up to 270 percent it imposes on dairy products.
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On a level playing field, American companies can compete with anyone, and our exporters will gain advantage if trade barriers are abolished.
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Trump promised trade barriers, tariffs, and walls, to the gaping consternation of the conservative monied class, and paid no penalty at all.
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The agreement creates a single market that removes trade barriers says Hafsatu Lawal Garba, one of the researchers who worked on the AfCFTA.
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But since in this case both countries are raising trade barriers, there's no way to escape the conclusion that the conflict is costly.
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A new PwC survey shows nearly 60% of global CEOs are worried about protectionism and rising trade barriers, up from 40% in 2012.
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Trump's weak argument could empower China – and other countries – to erect their own trade barriers under the cover of vague national security arguments.
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The pressure for higher trade barriers was only defused by the Plaza Accord of 1985, a rich-country pact to weaken the dollar.
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The escalating tension sent shivers through financial markets as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.
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The risk is that formidable trade barriers and even more tariffs would be put into place, and American workers will pay the price.
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Its success was built on the structural reforms of the 1980s and '90s, when trade barriers crumbled and foreign-exchange controls were removed.
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The OECD sees the potential for new trade barriers between the United States and the European Union and Brexit-related uncertainties, as well.
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It&aposs to lower everybody else&aposs trade barriers down to a reasonable area, so that there is more trade, rather than less.
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In the case of a no-deal Brexit, trade between Britain and the EU would face immediate trade barriers and restrictions on business.
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Powell insisted that trade issues are not within the bank's mandate, but he said that high tariffs and trade barriers are typically harmful.
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There is a chance that it will all end with some cosmetic announcement by the Chinese that they will reduce some trade barriers.
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That would mean new trade barriers, disruption to supply chains for food, medicines and manufactured goods, and a shock to the broader economy.
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His political legacy includes activism in support of free-market initiatives such as eliminating trade barriers between countries and easing regulations on industry.
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That led to immediate retaliation from Canada and Mexico, while the EU has yet to officially respond with trade barriers of its own.
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Over the last several decades, lower tariffs and relaxed trade barriers strengthened global supply chains and fueled a major increase in global trade.
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He later revealed that they were not for national security purposes at all, but in response to current trade barriers facing U.S. exports.
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The administration now has another opportunity to lower trade barriers for the United States through renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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On Sunday, Trump warned other countries that the U.S. would retaliate if they continued to place trade barriers and tariffs on U.S. products.
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And another study by the International Monetary Fund found that the reduction of trade barriers in advanced countries led to increased economic growth.
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If Trump is serious about getting other countries to lower their trade barriers against the U.S., he should be highlighting the WTO assessments.
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Below is a list of key steel trade barriers, looming or current, put in place the world over since the U.S. tariff move.
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However, he said establishing trade barriers to protect jobs will only result in a global trade war that will hurt the global economy.
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These currently include a gaping $347 billion trade deficit, non-tariff trade barriers, and intentional, chronic and massive violations of U.S. intellectual property.
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A trade war begins when one country puts up trade barriers, making it harder for foreign countries to sell goods and services there.
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The U.S. government has often scolded other nations for imposing import trade barriers that hurt their citizens in order to protect special interests.
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Trade and the deals to reduce trade barriers often threaten the livelihood of workers in the industries exposed most directly to foreign competition.
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The two sides said that they had agreed to discuss tearing down all tariffs, trade barriers and subsidies on non-auto industrial goods.
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Opposition groups signaled on Thursday that they would keep a close eye on what emerges from this new attempt to dismantle trade barriers.
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Separately, here's an illustrated guide to President Trump's longtime focus on trade barriers, and how he became a mighty Man of (American) Steel.
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Lawmakers last month rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, heightening fears of a disorderly no-deal Brexit and of new trade barriers.
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But if Harley-Davidson does not adapt to the rising trade barriers, it stands to sell fewer motorcycles, which could harm its profits.
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The United States and European Union accuse Beijing of unfairly subsidizing its green industries and have raised trade barriers against Chinese-made goods.
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We are going to protect a tremendous durable economic prosperity cycle with low taxes and deregulation and energy and getting trade barriers down.
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Beijing is also trying to keep alive long-shot, three-way talks that would lower trade barriers among China, Japan and South Korea.
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The two sides will also begin talks to cut other trade barriers, they announced on Wednesday following a meeting at the White House.
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Trade experts, economists and business groups alike have long argued that the introduction of further trade barriers will be damaging to both sides.
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Her cabinet wants to reduce trade barriers with Europe but maintain the right to forge new trade deals, and diverge from regulatory standards.
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Aside from new models, the focus at the show will be on how trade barriers could add to the industry's already formidable challenges.
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Car manufacturers, which rely on complicated global supply chains, are worried that Brexit will lead to new trade barriers and delays at borders.
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Economists are worried that rising trade barriers between the world's major economies will drag on global growth and, by extension, erode energy demand.
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Chinese leaders have threatened in the past to retaliate against raised trade barriers, but have yet to take direct action following Trump's announcement.
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Potential renegotiations of NAFTA could deter these gains if the deal doesn't include reducing both trade barriers and government favoritism for certain industries.
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"Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs, all trade barriers between Canada and the United States, so I'm very happy," Trump told reporters.
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The escalating tensions sent shivers through financial markets as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.
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Exports of "semis" rose 8% in the first half of 2019 despite the proliferation of trade barriers and anti-dumping duties on Chinese products.
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ICCR works with independent cosmetic industry trade associations to align cosmetic product regulations globally in order to minimize trade barriers while maximizing consumer protections.
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He's making it seem as if trade is really bad for the United States and therefore we are going to put up trade barriers.
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"This decision will forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports, reduce trade barriers, open new markets, and protect American invention and innovation," Arizona Sen.
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"Tesla is a winner if China is serious about lowering trade barriers, but I don't think they're serious about anything, " Cramer told a caller.
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For decades, the US has led the push to establish free trade norms around the world and persuade countries to eliminate their trade barriers.
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"If trade barriers rose higher or concerns about such developments increased, domestic investment and output could be slower than we project," the agency added.
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"If trade barriers rose higher or concerns about such developments increased, domestic investment and output could be slower than we project," the agency said.
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Business leaders have long complained about the theft of intellectual property and non-tariff trade barriers they say do real harm to American companies.
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However, G20 economies also implemented 29 measures to reduce trade barriers during the period, covering $397.2 billion, it said in a regular monitoring report.
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The second half of the twentieth century saw an unprecedented removal of trade barriers, cheered on by the Chief Globalization Cheerleader — the United States.
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In an interview with CNBC in May, two months after resigning from the administration, Cohn made it clear where he stood on trade barriers.
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But they also spelled out downside risks that could limit economic growth, such as trade barriers, the dollar's appreciation and uncertainty on fiscal measures.
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Various finance officials said the decades-long effort to tear down trade barriers had lifted millions of people in poor nations out of poverty.
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Scrapping trade barriers unilaterally would draw howls from British farmers and manufacturers, just as abolishing much EU regulation would rile environmentalists, unions and consumers.
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Reducing trade barriers will address the trade slowdown, and approving agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership builds momentum for open trade and investment.
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Freeland framed the new trade barriers as a necessary evil to ensure Trump doesn't think he can push around his neighbor without facing consequences.
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" On trade, Inslee's plan calls for "increasing trade barriers on fossil fuels and products causing or resulting from deforestation practices" among other things. "U.
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In reality, the trade barriers he would erect would harm rather than help the living standards of most Americans, by making imports more expensive.
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The TPP negotiations to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies are ambitious in scale but have been fraught with problems.
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"Trade barriers make Americas as a whole poorer and they especially harm those already disadvantaged," said James Davis, a spokesman for the Koch network.
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During the last 2628 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers.
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Trump has agreed to refrain from imposing tariffs on cars imported from the EU while the two sides negotiate to cut other trade barriers.
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Apple has asked the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to further exempt trade barriers on Apple Watches and iPhone parts, among other materials.
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Economists persuaded governments to abandon mercantilism by demonstrating that trade barriers imposed higher prices on the masses while narrowly benefiting those sheltered from competition.
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Lighthizer is currently overseeing US negotiations with Canada and Mexico to revise the 1994 free-trade agreement that eliminated trade barriers between their economies.
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"North American and European stocks had a positive development in the quarter despite the prospect of increased trade barriers," Grande told a news conference.
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He would stand as a right-left populist who supports closed borders, trade barriers, local and nationalistic culture and an America First foreign policy.
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Strong interest groups in the Philippines want to keep those trade barriers, including wealthy families that own companies that benefit from limiting foreign competition.
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Weak pricing, tight credit and corporate monopolies have put pressure on farms in recent years, and new trade barriers have exacerbated their economic problems.
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President Trump's tariffs, which were initially seen as a cudgel to force other countries to drop their trade barriers, may be here to stay.
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His administration has questioned years of efforts to lower global trade barriers, arguing that they hurt American workers and led to big trade deficits.
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In many sectors, NAFTA stipulates that trade barriers would only gradually be phased out, which was designed to smooth economic shocks in vulnerable industries.
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"India has implemented a wide array of trade barriers that create serious negative effects on United States commerce," the agency said in a statement.
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"There's been maybe two or three times in the last 40 years we've seen trade barriers being used under this law," Bown told me.
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Still, the threat of further tariffs rattled stock markets, in part because China has said it plans to retaliate against any American trade barriers.
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The case will also be a test of the president's willingness to impose the kind of powerful trade barriers that he has frequently threatened.
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As that territory's experience demonstrates, and as economists have long argued, lowering trade barriers regardless of other governments' trade policies fuels domestic economic growth.
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Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said on Monday that Harley-Davidson's decision was evidence that raising trade barriers was a bad idea.
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Those agreements have little to do with eliminating real trade barriers, such as the tariffs that the 1995 World Trade Organization deal largely eliminated.
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The Heritage Foundation's annual "Index of Economic Freedom" shows that countries with low trade barriers are much more prosperous than those that restrict trade.
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Saunders admitted that rising trade barriers could bring problems to the U.K. economy, which has relied significantly on exports over the last few decades.
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As well as reducing trade barriers, the bloc has sought to integrate in other areas, such as financial markets and free movement of people.
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A trade deal could help set the stage for Trump's reelection in 2020, bringing down trade barriers and installing a new sense of certainty.
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In May, the African Union initiated the African Continental Free Trade Area, a deal aimed at breaking down trade barriers and minimizing trade disputes.
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This would be an important first step to rebalancing the authority over tariffs and trade barriers that Congress has ceded to the executive branch.
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If the United Kingdom has not agreed a new trade agreement with Brussels when the clock expires, it will face significant new trade barriers.
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Creating new trade barriers in the globalized world trading system will simply lead to a leakage of jobs by car manufacturers to outside jurisdictions.
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Car manufacturers, which rely on complex international supply chains, are worried that Brexit will lead to new trade barriers and delays at the borders.
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A more likely outcome would be China erecting trade barriers to keep American innovators out if they refuse to comply with their data demands.
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He is also facing a January 26 deadline to decide whether to erect trade barriers to protect US solar panel and washing machine manufacturers.
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New trade barriers would be a serious threat to German growth and could sour relations with one of the United States' most important allies.
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A recent United States paper submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a notable step toward establishing rules to remove digital trade barriers.
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However, in this case, it is a notable first step toward knocking down digital trade barriers and an indicator of the administration's trade agenda.
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Several Republican senators griped that USMCA had drifted too far in labor's favor and would hinder the deal's fundamental goal of reducing trade barriers.
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The former superpower enabled the lowering of trade barriers and relaxation of restrictions on flows of capital around the world, supported by the U.S. dollar.
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That's where the U.S. needs a root and branch review of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, trade practices, comity and basic rules of reciprocity.
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The disagreement is on whether raising trade barriers mostly hurts the country that is raising them or mostly hurts the country that is being targeted.
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But it's in America's interest for the president to do his best to eliminate trade barriers, level the playing field and shrink our trade deficit.
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"Neither side has an interest in putting up trade barriers," Weidmann, who also sits on the European Central Bank's Governing Council, said in a speech.
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New Zealand and Japan have led the way in saying they remain committed to a deal to cut trade barriers in the Asia-Pacific region.
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"Ever since President Trump rolled out his steel and aluminum tariffs last year, Brown-Forman's stock's been the victim of new trade barriers," Cramer said.
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The move, along with rising steel trade barriers and an infrastructure spending splurge by Beijing, helped global steel prices surge 45 percent since December 2015.
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While lowering trade barriers might increase crop supply and reduce the cost of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, farmers may suffer as a result.
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Since the second world war, those countries have had lower trade barriers, and that period has coincided with an unprecedented period of peace and cooperation.
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The minutes also spelled out the downside risks that could limit economic growth, such as trade barriers, the dollar's appreciation and uncertainty on fiscal measures.
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The UK Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned Thursday that "heightened uncertainty and declining confidence" would deter investment while higher trade barriers would slam exports.
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But most importantly, there is little overall relationship between the level of trade barriers to which a country agrees and aggregate employment in that country.
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In the '90s, center-left parties in the United States and Western Europe embraced lowered trade barriers, greater financial integration, welfare retrenchment, deregulation, and privatization.
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American politicians are more concerned with those who will struggle to keep pace with jobs relocating across industries and borders as trade barriers are lifted.
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SX8P, which is mainly composed of hardware firms sensitive to trade barriers, fell 2.7 percent on the news, which could herald higher costs for companies.
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The U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association, urged the Trump Administration last month to cut trade barriers to Japan, the biggest export market for U.S. beef.
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On top of this the European Union has a Trade Surplus of $151 Million with the U.S., with big Trade Barriers on U.S. goods. NO!
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Sure to come up are the Afghanistan conflict (Italy is a key US partner) and Trump's push to bust trade barriers with the European Union.
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Requiring approval from Congress before imposing trade barriers would reclaim some of legislative branch's trade authority found in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution.
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The Japanese government warned early last year that its companies could move elsewhere in Europe if trade barriers after Brexit wipe out their profit margins.
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Deficits are not primarily driven by differences in trade barriers but by macroeconomic factors, such as growth rates and levels of national savings and investment.
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BERLIN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Non-tariff trade barriers between the European Union and Turkey must be eliminated, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said on Thursday.
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Trump's trade proposals, Reich argues, assume the U.S. can't compete and must erect trade barriers lest other countries flood America with better and cheaper products.
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Trump went into the meeting sparring with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, tweeting that they use tariffs and trade barriers.
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On Thursday, for example, the Bank of England warned that the erection of international trade barriers could have a "significant negative impact" on global growth.
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We're engaged in very important discussions across the board, whether it's agriculture or IP or tech transfer or cloud or cyber-hacking or trade barriers.
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"It is clear that we now see a much higher and real risk of triggering an escalation of trade barriers across the globe," he said.
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Instead, the United States is piling on debt and adopting policies — immigration restrictions, increased trade barriers, looser financial regulation — that many economists view as counterproductive.
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The trade wars that broke out after 2008 have involved mainly nontariff or "stealth" trade barriers, including cheap state loans and subsidies for favored industries.
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On average, the United States has trade barriers that are higher than Canada's and Japan's and about equal to those of its closest European allies.
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Under the European Union, German manufacturers can assemble their cars in low-wage countries and export them without worrying about tariffs or other trade barriers.
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President Trump and Prime Minister Modi have plenty in common, but that doesn't include a desire to quickly lower trade barriers between the two countries.
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This one must be completed before the end of the year or trade barriers will be erected between the country and its biggest export market.
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China, while currently accounting for only a minor share of U.S. steel imports due to existing trade barriers, is by far the world's largest producer.
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But that effort never flowered into a full negotiation largely because of the EU's refusal to address U.S. demands to lower its agricultural trade barriers.
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The gap had continued to grow despite the White House's intense pressuring of Beijing to loosen its trade barriers and to stop appropriating U.S. technology.
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Trump has promised to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal secured by President Obama that would reduce trade barriers between many Pacific Rim countries.
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Now, steel manufacturers -- among others -- are facing a surge in foreign imports in anticipation of new trade barriers Trump promised but has yet to deliver.
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He also threatened to levy a tax on European cars if the EU did not remove tariffs and trade barriers on a range of goods.
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Breaking from decades of US presidents lowering trade barriers, Trump is waging a global trade war that spread this week to Argentina, Brazil and France.
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Companies have been forced to spend big on preparations for a disorderly Brexit, which would mean new trade barriers and major delays at border crossings.
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In January, the International Monetary Fund warned that the imposition of new trade barriers and other "inward-looking" policies could derail surprisingly strong global growth.
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But inflation in one country behind protective trade barriers doesn't work either, as was demonstrated during the inflationary spiral of the late 1960s and 1970s.
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As frictions with the United States began heating up in 2018, China stepped up efforts to lower trade barriers with the rest of the world.
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Trump could also try to pursue bilateral trade deals with major economies that would've lowered trade barriers with the US under the TPP like Japan.
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Trump said Europe agreed to increase purchases of U.S. liquefied natural gas and lower trade barriers to American soybeans, aiding U.S. farmers and the energy sector.
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LIESMAN: BUT YOU DO NEED TO PROCESS IT. BECAUSE THE MINUTES SHOWED US YESTERDAY THAT ONE OF THE CONCERNS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE ARE TRADE BARRIERS.
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WILLIAMS: WELL, CLEARLY, IF A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES HAVE TRADE BARRIERS, THAT WOULD HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON GROWTH AND IT WOULD ALSO RAISE INFLATION, TOO.
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TRUMP: Justin has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA: Let&aposs say an actors in good shape.
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Trump fired back soon after on Twitter, addressing both leaders directly, saying they were charging "massive tariffs" on U.S. goods and had erected other trade barriers.
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That would suggest that any impositions of trade barriers could hit growth in China that is behind much of the wealth in exporting nations like Germany.
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But the express-delivery industry faces a new challenge: the return of trade barriers due to the protectionist bent of Donald Trump and because of Brexit.
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Observing the erection of trade barriers or border fences, some may wonder why they should fear the outfits that proposed such ideas in the first place.
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"Trade barriers such as tariffs increase the cost of both consumer and producer goods and depress the economic benefits of competition, inhibiting economic growth," she said.
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It then fell sharply during the Great Depression as countries raised trade barriers, but has since reached an all-time high of around 60% of GDP.
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The loudest complaints are about the inclusion of Canada in the list of countries thwacked by trade barriers, which has damaged a highly integrated economic area.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday predicted China would take down its trade barriers, while Chinese officials have said this is not the time for negotiations.
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This latest action on steel and aluminium could be a gambit to show that Mr Trump is not bluffing when he threatens to erect trade barriers.
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Retaliating against U.S. trade barriers, Beijing has imposed a 40 percent import tariff on soybean imports from the United States, creating excess in the soybean market.
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Instead of imposing new import tariffs, the Trump administration should strive to expand economic freedom by eliminating trade barriers in this country and around the world.
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Trade sanctions have proliferated in the interim but there are plenty of gaps between the multiple trade barriers if Chinese exporters were minded to exploit them.
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Trump agreed last month to refrain from imposing tariffs on cars imported from the European Union while the two sides negotiate to cut other trade barriers.
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The EU has said it would respond in kind if Trump imposed further car tariffs while the two sides discuss how they could cut trade barriers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Japan warned Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that its companies would have to leave Britain if trade barriers after Brexit made them unprofitable.
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On Sunday, Trump predicted China would take down its trade barriers, and said: Taxes will become reciprocal and a deal will be made on intellectual property.
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THERE ARE ALSO SIGNIFICANT NON-TARIFF TRADE BARRIERS, STANDARDS, LICENSING, ALL KINDS OF OTHER GAINS THAT THE FOREIGN COMPANIES BENEFIT FROM BECAUSE THEIR GOVERNMENTS SUPPORT THEM.
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Over time, as both countries recognize their co-dependence and need to achieve global scale in their key industries, the justification for trade barriers will diminish.
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Here's why: The essence of a free trade agreement is to support the free flow of goods by reducing trade barriers, things like tariffs and quotas.
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The two sides also agreed to begin discussions on how to resolve issues of concern, including intellectual property protection, non-tariff trade barriers and cyber theft.
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Patrick Minford, chair of the Economists for Free Trade group, said in March that with the UK working outside of EU trade barriers competition will increase.
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President Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reached an agreement, announced in the Rose Garden, to start work on eliminating trade barriers and tariffs.
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Still, American business groups expressed concern over the possibility that the United States tariffs would spur others around the world to raise their own trade barriers.
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Background reading: President Trump's tariffs, initially seen as a cudgel to break down trade barriers, increasingly look like more permanent measures intended to shelter American industry.
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The two benchmarks are headed for monthly losses of around 8% and 5%, respectively, weighed down by trade barriers between the world's two biggest oil consumers.
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Whatever unpopularity Giammattei faces over this deal will likely be dwarfed if the US -- recipient of around 40% of Guatemala's exports -- suddenly puts up trade barriers.
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Tech shares joined industrials in a sharp fall when American markets opened for the week, amid growing fears of a global race to erect trade barriers.
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The fund attributed much of the damage to rising trade barriers and trade uncertainty, which it blamed for reducing investment and demand for machinery and equipment.
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As we enter a new year, let us advocate for what keeps our economy strong: fewer trade barriers and the protection of intellectual property (IP) rights.
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We advise the key players to embrace transparency in negotiations and remove trade barriers, to continue the drumbeat of cooperative prosperity across the North American continent.
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However, U.S. officials clarified on Friday that Trump's visit will not result in even a limited trade deal as they have concerns over India's trade barriers.
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He is obsessed with China's persistent trade surpluses with America, even though economists keep telling him those are driven by more than just China's trade barriers.
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European titans like Danone, Nestle and LVMH, which are wholly unrelated to the aircraft subsidy complaint against Airbus, could face costly trade barriers as a consequence.
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Another major risk looms: President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened tariffs on cars assembled in Europe if the European Union doesn't move to reduce trade barriers.
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The fund blamed the "subdued growth" partly on rising trade barriers and heightened geopolitical tensions, and called for a "balanced" way to fend off those risks.
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We were the first country to join the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which has removed trade barriers and boosted trade with the United States.
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While he said the "higher trade barriers are clearly negative from a long-term microeconomic perspective," in the near-term they actually could be a positive.
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He is obsessed with China's persistent trade surpluses with America, even though economists keep telling him those are driven by more than just China's trade barriers.
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Analysts at Fitch Ratings said Tuesday that the China deal had raised their estimates for global growth, but done less to lower trade barriers than anticipated.
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He argued the fear of trade barriers would keep policy loose in China, despite strong money supply growth and booming house prices, which would help emerging markets.
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"This decision will forfeit the opportunity to promote American exports, reduce trade barriers, open new markets, and protect American invention and innovation," McCain said in a statement.
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As the US promises to erect trade barriers, China aims to double trade with the region to $500 billion and investment to $250 billion within 10 years.
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China said a "certain member" of the WTO had unilaterally raised trade barriers and imposed import tariffs in an arbitrary way and without authorization from the WTO.
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"As an exporting nation, Canada is always eager to work closely to reduce trade barriers between our countries," Trudeau said at the podium, barely containing a grin.
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Late last month, the White House said it would crack down on that behavior, outlining a series of actions aimed at punishing China for its trade barriers.
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The first is that the United States will renounce NAFTA, which it can do after six months' notice, or simply shred it by putting up trade barriers.
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The escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington sent shivers through financial markets, as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.
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Trade protectionism should be opposed, trade barriers removed and transaction costs lowered, Jiang said, adding that work needed to be done to harmonize and standardize mining regulations.
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Her company, which manufactures a portable gluten tester, is a prime example of the kind of small hardware venture that could suffer as trade barriers go up.
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In sensitive sectors such as sugar, NAFTA stipulates that trade barriers would only gradually be phased out, which was designed to smooth economic shocks in vulnerable industries.
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Any country seeking to increase exports would do better to focus on developing good products and channels to access foreign markets rather than putting up trade barriers.
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"We are able to export our high quality products freely without the trade barriers we deal with elsewhere and with a say in the rules," she added.
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He has floated the local peso, cut taxes and trade barriers and eliminated thousands of public jobs in his quest to cut state spending while stimulating growth.
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While speaking Saturday at the summit, Trump threatened other leaders that if they do not reduce trade barriers, the U.S. is "not going to deal" with them.
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The deal removed trade barriers between the Virgin Islands and their region's economic superpower, and prevented them from falling into German hands during the first world war.
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A commitment by Trump and Xi to begin eliminating tariffs and reducing trade barriers would be a major step forward for both countries — and the global economy.
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Canada will retaliate against new U.S. tariffs by imposing its own trade barriers on U.S. steel, aluminum and other products, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday.
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Market sentiment got a boost after U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to work toward eliminating trade barriers on industrial goods.
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Trump agreed to put off auto tariffs on Europe and the two leaders said they would begin broader talks over lowering other trade barriers on industrial products.
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Trump and Juncker announced Wednesday that the US and EU had agreed to begin talks geared toward removing all tariffs and trade barriers imposed on each other.
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Malmstrom spoke after two days of meetings with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo about a deal that would eliminate a broad range of trade barriers.
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"Governor Walker believes there should be no tariffs or trade barriers as the President stated earlier this month at the G7 summit," Walker spokeswoman Amy Hasenberg said.
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Between 220006 and 2202, presidents imposed trade barriers in only 2628 of the 28500 cases, according to an October report by the Peterson Institute of International Economics.
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The president has said that businesses and farmers will be better off when the levies push U.S. trading partners away from what he considers excessive trade barriers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain would face trade barriers if it left the European Union and its single market, the EU's financial services commissioner Jonathan Hill said on Monday.
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If Trump is to impose trade barriers on China and others, he said, then capital currently lodged in those markets may seek the traditional security of Japan.
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Another innovation in the T.P.P. was provisions to help small businesses, which lack the resources of big corporations, to navigate export rules, trade barriers and red tape.
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The alliance between the former enemies may soon be tested by Mr. Trump, who has grumbled about Japanese trade barriers and the cost of U.S. military support.
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Today, many politicians and editorial writers frame every policy proposal, from cutting taxes to raising trade barriers, in terms of the number of jobs it will create.
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Mr. Trump could pull the United States out of that agreement, which would erect new and damaging trade barriers on agricultural exports from states such as Iowa.
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Mr. Trump says other countries have taken advantage of the U.S., while most Republican leaders say lower trade barriers have helped America build the world's leading economy.
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While the G20 is a forum for international cooperation and reducing trade barriers, Mr. Trump has seized on stiff tariffs as a favored cudgel against trading partners.
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Initially seen as a short-term strategy to force other countries to drop their trade barriers, President Trump's tariffs increasingly look like a more permanent economic tool.
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Trade talks will continue, but the U.S. has asked China to remove "all of its many trade barriers" that prevent U.S. companies from doing business in China.
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Moreover, trade barriers would be disruptive to employment in their own right: United States auto production now relies on extensive North American supply chains in auto parts.
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In a tweet on Sunday, he threatened even more tariffs, saying the United States would retaliate "with more than Reciprocity" if "artificial" trade barriers were not removed.
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Their biggest fear is a scenario where the United Kingdom crashes out of the bloc, leading to new trade barriers while putting jobs and investment at risk.
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British manufacturers' expectations for future business hit a 17-month low in April, partly because of fear of trade barriers, the research firm IHS Markit said Tuesday.
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The TPP is critical because it will reduce and eliminate trade barriers across 2202 Pacific Rim markets comprising nearly 2628 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP).
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Brexit, of course, will create significant trade barriers in Europe, so any decision regarding it will immediately affect markets, even if Brexit doesn't happen for a while.
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The European Union and the United States are each other's largest trading partner, and there is general agreement that both sides would benefit from lower trade barriers.
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For now, businesses hope that Mr. Trump is not really serious about erecting trade barriers with Europe, which would arguably damage the United States economy as well.
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Vietnam has asked India to reduce trade barriers on its exports, such as black pepper and cashew nuts, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Friday.
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The escalating tensions between Beijing and Washington sent shivers through financial markets as investors foresaw dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.
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China is preparing to spend $85033 trillion in infrastructure projects under its auspices in an effort to sow goodwill and reduce trade barriers between China and Europe.
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Many experts think that outcome would incur huge adjustment costs, with Britain and the EU erecting trade barriers in place of their current seamless "single market" relationship.
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Aggressive steps to correct unfair trade barriers and practices by others can also help U.S. companies participate on a more level playing field in other countries' markets.
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Many of those critical trading partners have retaliated with billions of dollars' worth of trade barriers of their own against exports coming out of the United States.
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The deal was aimed at tearing down U.S., Canadian and Mexican trade barriers, but Trump has complained that the U.S. got the short end of the deal.
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Positive job data in the United States on Friday reassured investors who have yet to witness an actual slowdown due to the implementation of higher trade barriers.
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Economic data also failed to reassure investors with euro zone factory growth slowing to an 18-month low in June amid widespread concerns about new trade barriers.
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The eleven nations that have been working to lower trade barriers and end protectionist policies under this Partnership are a diverse mix of developed and developing economies.
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Erecting higher trade barriers won't do much good for American workers if technological progress, rather than trade with China or Mexico, is the primary factor destroying American jobs.
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The hope would be that the WTO forces Country X to cut its subsidies or gives the US permission to use trade barriers against Country X's tennis balls.
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A so-called hard Brexit, with Britain crashing out of the EU without a deal, would hamper trade as business would face immediate trade barriers and other restrictions.
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Canada, meanwhile, has agreed to lift a visa requirement for Mexican citizens in exchange for Mexico's removal of trade barriers that prevented Canadian beef from entering the country.
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He cited Trump's promises for lower taxes, infrastructure and defense spending, less regulation and higher trade barriers, as long as those barriers do not dent growth too much.
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By clubbing together they recognised the destruction of the 1930s, when countries erected trade barriers to protect their domestic economies but ended up harming themselves as a result.
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But the agreement he's struck with the European Union would erect significant trade barriers for companies operating in the United Kingdom, reduce growth and leave the country poorer.
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With Cohn absent in debates over trade policy, it seems likely that Trump could become even brasher in his proposals to erect trade barriers around the American economy.
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The TPP, which aims to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies but does not include China, can not take effect without the United States.
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Trump, who is on a four-day state visit, said his goal was to remove trade barriers so as to give U.S. exports a fair footing in Japan.
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Trump, at a news conference with Abe after a summit, said his goal was to remove trade barriers to put U.S. exports on an equal footing in Japan.
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Either they will force other countries to drop trade barriers and crown him as dealmaker-in-chief, or they will pay down government debt while saving favoured industries.
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Rising trade barriers, sharper than expected slowdowns and major economies have paved the way for the World Bank to reduce its Global Economic Growth Forecast for the year.
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"Moreover, some of the risks that we have highlighted at our spring meetings in April have now begun to materialize, especially from the rising trade barriers," she added.
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But, to succeed, we need to look forward to where the economy is going: technology, creativity, entrepreneurialism, instead of backward towards closed borders, trade barriers and factory smokestacks.
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Despite blossoming economic links and genuine chemistry between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama, the two nations still lack free movement of goods without trade barriers.
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The erection of trade barriers between Britain and the EU might force consumers and companies to source more goods and services from domestic suppliers, instead of foreign ones.
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First, like Trump, Sanders is supportive of reforming free-trade agreements such as NAFTA — which reduced trade barriers between the US, Canada, and Mexico — to protect American industries.
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That is what trade barriers force us to do and we are both impoverished as a result, losing both time and money that could have been better spent.
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THIESSEN: -- they put out a joint statement saying they are going to zero tariffs, zero trade barriers and zero subsidies on non-auto-- (CROSSTALK) WILLIAMS: Not realistic, Marc.
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The National Trade Estimate Report on foreign trade barriers released around the same time specifically mentioned restrictions on agriculture imports and licensing and local content in mobile technology.
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And I think the trick of to fine, use the threat of tariffs as leverage, but the goal is not to raise trade barriers around the United States.
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President Trump also kept trade tensions high over the weekend, threatening to continue imposing tariffs on countries that do not lower their own trade barriers to U.S. goods.
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WHEN Ronald Reagan, running for president in 5003, proposed doing away with trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico, he did so with his usual hyperbole.
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It would be a major challenge for BBS and Brindisa if the deal Britain eventually negotiates with the 27 remaining EU members involves a return of trade barriers.
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GROWTH: Positive job data in the United States last Friday reassured investors who have yet to witness an actual slowdown due to the implementation of higher trade barriers.
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U. agreement identifies a goal and starts a process, Xi should suggest phasing out all tariffs and trade barriers over a period of, say, three to five years.
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"Companies will export less to Britain, they are planning to scale back investment and staffing on the island and they are afraid of more trade barriers," added Schweitzer.
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Here is why China should care: In a study released this week, we show that when American workers get too little trade compensation, they demand more trade barriers.
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Since domestic producers couldn't get there on their own, trade barriers were needed to prop them up and fund their inefficiencies through higher prices paid by U.S. consumers.
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Three decades of economic reform in China, plus lower trade barriers after the country joined the World Trade Organization in 18.23, lit a fire under the economy there.
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After a meeting with Juncker at the White House on Wednesday, Trump agreed to refrain from imposing car tariffs while they start talks on cutting other trade barriers.
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Manufacturers across the country want to see this partnership prioritize economic issues and include concrete steps to tackle trade barriers that have long plagued their success in India.
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Even before the announcement of new tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports from China, trade barriers were already having dire consequences for American businesses, workers and consumers.
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Fears over 'no deal' The most worrying scenario for business is one where Britain crashes out of the European Union without a deal, leading to new trade barriers.
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In a statement made after the meeting, BMW hailed free trade, claiming the reduction in trade barriers has made its own success story in the United States possible.
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Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that he expected China would remove its trade barriers, adding that the U.S. and China had a "[g]reat future" ahead.
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Our new Trade Deal with Mexico focuses on FARMERS, GROWTH for our country, tearing down TRADE BARRIERS, JOBS and having companies continue to POUR BACK INTO OUR COUNTRY.
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The TPP was also expected to reduce trade barriers to American clean energy exports in partner countries, saving the U.S. renewables industry at least $24 million a year.
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The two sides said they would work to eliminate trade distortions, increase communication on trade barriers, and increase trade in the tech-tech sector, according to the statement.
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The World Trade Organization warned on Wednesday that trade barriers being erected by major economies could jeopardize the global economic recovery, with their effects already starting to show.
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At a surprise news conference, President Trump and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said they would work toward lowering tariffs and other trade barriers.
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The announced trade barriers came just hours after a group of countries signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal that no longer includes the United States.
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It came after a year of failed efforts by the Trump administration to compel India to lower its trade barriers, including the tariffs it charges on American goods.
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The Trump administration has made containing China's economic rise a priority, imposing steep tariffs to force the Chinese government to lower trade barriers and stop subsidizing its industries.
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For Mr. Kudlow's claims about trade barriers imposed by China and the European Union to be accurate, he would need to selectively apply different metrics in each case.
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During his speech Tuesday in Davos, Trump reaffirmed that tariffs on China will remain in place and noted that these trade barriers have been a key negotiating tool.
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"The limited nature of this (Phase 1) deal begs the question of prospects for further progress on lowering trade barriers," Mizuho analysts said in a note to clients.
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American negotiators want to see trade barriers for agricultural products lifted, but EU member states are standing firm on food safety standards and restrictions on genetically modified foods.
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Threatening a trade war will put pressure on China to stop cheating and it will end up leading to free markets and lower trade barriers for American goods.
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The Chinese market imports relatively few foreign-made vehicles, the various trade barriers that have infuriated the Trump administration effectively limiting imports to specialty and high-end models.
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The currency has fallen to record lows since last year, deepening losses after Trump's win due to his threats to impose trade barriers on U.S.-bound Mexican goods.
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The CEO of Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas warned about the impact of tariffs and trade barriers Wednesday, with the company lowering its revenue guidance for the year.
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American cars are very rare in Japan, though this is not a result of Japanese policies or trade barriers but rather the price and reputation of American cars.
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Renegotiating NAFTA could serve as a valuable opportunity to promote prosperity, but only by reducing trade barriers and government privilege so individuals in different countries can mutually benefit.
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"Over the longer term I am considerably more cautious about the economic outlook," said Dudley, who last year also criticized the White House's efforts to erect trade barriers.
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As trade tensions escalate between Washington and Beijing, the U.S. Senate quietly passed legislation on Thursday that would lower trade barriers on hundreds of items made in China.
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TTIP is a free trade accord that would significantly reduce trade barriers between the US and the European Union, and has been in the negotiation stage since 2013.
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But overall, it's designed to do what most free trade deals do: lower and eliminate trade barriers like tariffs (border taxes) for selling and buying goods between countries.
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"But if it did deteriorate into permanent trade barriers that would be something that the committee would have to consider and adjust to," he said, referring to the FOMC.
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It asked people if they sympathize with cutting tariffs or think they are necessary (1978 to 1998) and whether they favor agreements to cut trade barriers (2004 to 2014).
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Yet far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, along with Guedes and his team, have pledged to bring down trade barriers, open up the economy and make Brazilian business more competitive.
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Peru is also part of efforts to reduce trade barriers between Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and the Pacific Alliance bloc made up of Peru, Mexico, Chile and Colombia.
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China responded strongly and the escalating tension between Beijing and Washington hit financial markets, with investors fearing dire consequences for the global economy if trade barriers start going up.
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Faltering trade growth in certain parts of the world amid increasing trade barriers and decline in investments are extremely worrying, the OECD's chief economist Laurence Boone told CNBC Tuesday.
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Detailed talks seeking to tear down long lists of foreign trade barriers and even transform protectionist foreign economies into something substantially freer should be recognized as a mug's game.
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Trump said at a news conference with Abe after their summit that his goal was to remove trade barriers to put U.S. exports on a fair footing in Japan.
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Mr Minford forecasts that a hard Brexit followed by the unilateral abolition of all trade barriers and much EU regulation would boost Britain's GDP by 6.8%, or £135bn ($175bn).
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If Trump succeeds in using trade wars to bring down European and Chinese trade barriers, he may end up being one of the greatest free-trade presidents in history.
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The growth outlook for the German economy remains clouded, however, by rising trade barriers such as tariffs and business uncertainty linked to Britain's chaotic departure from the European Union.
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But since the mid-2000s, these effects have waned as trade and productivity gains have slowed, and rising trade barriers could reverse some of these benefits, the IMF said.
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"Higher trade barriers and persistent uncertainty may weigh on import growth among Norway's trading partners, but may also lead to the krone remaining weaker than assumed," the bank said.
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Singapore came narrowly behind, according to the UBS Investor Watch 2017 report, with 84 percent of Singaporean millionaires holding this view and highlighting the risk of greater trade barriers.
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TRADE Barriers to trade would be raised for British companies as the EU imposes import tariffs which average 5 percent but are higher for some exports such as cars.
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Pence had also said that the U.S. would be working with the Indonesian government to reduce trade barriers in a bid to improve market access in Indonesia, Reuters reported.
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But he added that Mexico has had success persuading China to ease trade barriers on some goods and expects it to continue to open up as its economy matures.
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Strong job data in the United States on Friday reassured global equity investors who have yet to witness a tangible slowdown due to the implementation of higher trade barriers.
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We also need to point out that President Trump is irrational in claiming that withdrawing from the Paris trade agreement will protect the American worker against harmful trade barriers.
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"In the long term, the United States would be shooting itself in the foot by imposing tariffs or other trade barriers," VDA President Matthias Wissmann said in a statement.
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Trump said on Monday he will address his proposed immigration overhaul in his speech as well as his efforts to lower trade barriers around the world for American exports.
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The removal of trade barriers has played a significant role in reducing global poverty and encouraging peace between nations, achievements that could be eroded by tit-for-tat backsliding.
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The Bank of England said that May's plan could result in new trade barriers that would cause the UK economy to be 0.75% smaller than currently forecast in 2023.
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The National Institute for Economic and Social Research said on Monday that new trade barriers would make it difficult to sell services from the United Kingdom and discourage investment.
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As Mr. Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton praised the trade agreement as "the gold standard" for lowering tariffs and other trade barriers while protecting workers and the environment.
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Erecting our own tariffs and quotas, insulting our allies, and refusing to engage in international cooperation will result in more trade barriers, not less, and ultimately a poorer country.
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For all the bellyaching by the Europeans, Japanese and Chinese about Trump's unjust tariffs, the truth is that almost all other nations have higher trade barriers than we do.
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The 2013 program also described the "friendship" with Washington as a "cornerstone" of Germany's international relations and talked about strengthening transatlantic economic ties through the removal of trade barriers.
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On Sunday, President Donald Trump doubled-down on his rhetoric on Twitter, calling on other countries to end all trade barriers or face a new round of retaliatory measures.
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Obstfeld said that persistently weak growth that leaves lower-income people behind has fueled a political movement "that blames globalization for all woes" and seeks to raise trade barriers.
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For ag products, there are also provisions that enhance science-based standards for sanitary and phytosanitary measures, which in the past have been used as non-tariff trade barriers.
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The U.S. Commerce Department last month set steep trade barriers that brought to a halt shipments of soyoil-based biodiesel from Argentina and palm oil-based supplies from Indonesia.
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The percentage who wanted to see a renegotiation of the agreement, which removed trade barriers between Canada, the United States and Mexico, fell to 24 percent from 34 percent.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC earlier Thursday that rising trade tensions between the U.S. and the rest of the world will help lower trade barriers for American companies.
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Related: Treasury's Mnuchin: 'I don't think we're in a trade war' The Trump administration has been urging the European Union to lower their trade barriers to reach an agreement.
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The deepening rift has sent a chill through financial markets and the corporate world as investors predicted dire consequences for the global economy should trade barriers start going up.
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I'm not going to argue the merits of either of these policies, but there are sound reasons why economists believe that trade barriers will not bring back manufacturing jobs.
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That countered optimism over news that U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to refrain from imposing car tariffs while Europe and the United States negotiated to cut other trade barriers.
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The United States and China have swapped tariffs on $250 billion worth of each other's goods so far, with President Trump threatening more unless China lowers its trade barriers.
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But in the past several trading sessions, that apathy has been replaced by what looks like mounting alarm about the prospect of a global race to erect trade barriers.
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Mr. Modi is likely to ask Mr. Xi to let in more Indian pharmaceuticals and ease some of the trade barriers, but Chinese analysts do not anticipate big changes.
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The United States-India trading relationship has become increasingly tense, with the Trump administration deeply frustrated with India's trade barriers to medical devices, agricultural goods, electronics and digital trade.
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Let's hope that over the next year, IP protection is stronger, government officials advocate for fewer trade barriers, jobs become more plentiful, and our economy continues to get stronger.
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Without the text, whether China will be putting the force of law behind agreements on certain intellectual property provisions, nontariff trade barriers and financial markets remains an open question.
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The fear is that Mr. Trump could abandon the trade organization entirely, essentially unraveling an institution that has been instrumental in lowering trade barriers over the past two decades.
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The United States in June stripped India's special trade privilege citing "a wide array of trade barriers", though it did not specifically cite its concerns over data storage rules.
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The United States in June stripped India's special trade privilege citing "a wide array of trade barriers," though it did not specifically cite its concerns over data storage rules.
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Businesses were warned to prepare for increased trade barriers, and consumers cautioned over higher credit card charges when purchasing EU products in the event of a "no deal" Brexit.
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" In April, the party (rebranded as National Rally) called for European nations to use trade barriers as a cudgel against "rogue states that abandon the fight against climate change.
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Since World War II, few nations have escaped poverty without a huge lift from exports, and rising trade barriers will make it harder for developing countries to do that.
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Every year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative produces a voluminous report on foreign failures to protect intellectual property and another massive report on foreign trade barriers.
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A former civil engineer, Macri has cut taxes and trade barriers and eliminated thousands of public jobs as he faces the challenge of reducing government spending while stimulating growth.
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So far China has not responded to President Trump on these ... you know, they're stealing our technology, they have tall trade barriers, and they're breaking a lot of laws.
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And so I don't see any reason why there can't be a leveling of the trade barriers, trade rules and still everyone I think everyone can succeed and thrive.
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"If politicians erect trade barriers or start a currency depreciation race, there are only losers in the end," he told RND, in comments due to be published on Wednesday.
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Beyond their limited lobbying abilities, the mining companies have no control over whether the trade dispute is resolved, or whether it morphs into a situation of effectively permanent trade barriers.
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It aims to bring all 54 members of the African Union (AU) together in a single market of 1.2 billion people by removing trade barriers such as tariffs across Africa.
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Analysts estimate that U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba could reach $1.2 billion if remaining regulations are relaxed and trade barriers are lifted, a market that U.S. agribusiness wants to capture.
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The 12-member TPP, which aims to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies but does not include China, can not take effect without the United States.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As trade tensions escalate between Washington and Beijing, the U.S. Senate quietly passed legislation on Thursday that would lower trade barriers on hundreds of items made in China.
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President Donald Trump has been levying tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods since the start of his administration, while China has been retaliating with trade barriers of its own.
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"We cannot say that, because we have a fire in the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian agribusiness is the great destroyer and should therefore face trade barriers," Dias told journalists in Brasilia.
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While China is the chief source of the global oversupply of steel and aluminum, it currently ships little steel and aluminum to the US because of previously-imposed trade barriers.
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This as the market was perceived as oversold with anticipation growing that spillover from any boost to the U.S. economy from a Trump presidency could offset newly erected trade barriers.
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On the economic side, it sets up programmes to bring eastern countries' labour rules and food- and product-safety standards in line with EU ones, and to ease trade barriers.
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Bilateral trade rose to $115 billion in 2016, but the Trump administration wants to reduce its $31 billion deficit with India, and is pressing New Delhi to ease trade barriers.
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TRADE: Trump predicted on Sunday that China would take down its trade barriers, expressing optimism despite escalating trade tensions between the world's two largest economies that have roiled global markets.
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And this is before accounting for growth, which, in spite of Mr Trump's tax and regulatory policies, would probably fall as a result of his immigration crackdown and trade barriers.
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As a response to worries about robots, apps and immigrants competing away middle-class jobs, wage insurance makes more sense than, say, trade barriers or a steeply higher minimum wage.
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Special tax breaks and high trade barriers have turned this remote outpost into the source of 90 percent of the air conditioners, cell phones, TVs and microwaves sold in Argentina.
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He noted the importance of lowering trade barriers between provinces, estimating it could boost Canada's economic growth by 0.2 percent point per year, or some C$4.5 billion ($3.4 billion).
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Consumers benefit from open trade and the ability to purchase more unique goods — like French wine and Colombian coffee, for example — that might be lost if trade barriers are high.
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Chinese government officials offered assurances on currency convertibility and easier access to its financial markets while simultaneously warning the US government about following through on threats to erect trade barriers.
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Moreover, Wall Street banks operate in many countries, so if the U.S. adopts trade barriers, other nations may counter by prohibiting American firms to conduct business in these various jurisdictions.
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Most international firms which publicly expressed an opinion ahead of last June's referendum backed Britain remaining in the European Union, fearful of extra costs, trade barriers and unpredictable currency swings.
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A tangle of tax breaks is unlikely to be relinquished without a fight, and the coddled manufacturing sector cherishes the subsidies and trade barriers that shield it from foreign competition.
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Speaking at a news conference as he prepared to leave Canada on Saturday, Trump demanded that foreign leaders drastically reduce trade barriers or risk losing access to U.S. markets altogether.
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"E3" stands for Germany, France and Britain, which are parties to an international treaty that seeks to lift trade barriers with Iran while preventing the country from developing nuclear weapons.
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That commonsense approach works for the rail transport, air transport and highway transport sectors, each of which is characterized by low U.S. trade barriers and a thriving domestic manufacturing base.
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In Europe, however, there were encouraging signs of de-escalation after Trump agreed last week to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides negotiate cutting other trade barriers.
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Kempf urged the United States and the European Union to reach an agreement soon to lower trade barriers instead of sliding into a trade dispute of tit-for-tat tariffs.
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Market players will monitor Chinese President Xi Jinping who will speak at the Boao Forum Tuesday, after President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that China could remove its trade barriers.
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For years, Southeastern U.S. growers of fresh, seasonal produce have struggled as Mexican growers swamp the American market every winter with cheap produce, thanks to NAFTA's elimination of trade barriers.
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He persisted in his defense of tariffs on imported goods, but at the same time, he called for the complete elimination of all trade barriers among the G-2628 members.
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This more readily permits the U.S. to end trade barriers through negotiation than does the EU whose leaders would be falsely seen as bargaining away the health of EU citizens.
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President Trump suggested at the recent Group of Seven (G7) meeting that countries should simply eliminate all tariffs and trade barriers, exposing the real problem no one wanted to discuss.
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Kudlow said he wasn't sure when the US and EU would strike a final free-trade agreement, but said Wednesday's deal was crucial to ending trade barriers between the countries.
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There are any number of economic consequences of this, including potentially lower, though more equally shared, economic growth, but one stands out as an easy call: trade barriers are inflationary.
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It would lead to lower tariffs and address the behind-the-border barriers that are clearly explained in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's latest Foreign Trade Barriers report.
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That should help prevent trade barriers based on how plants are bred, and that could help set a standard when the issue comes up with other nations, such as China.
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Between the lines: The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee said in March that it is "unrealistic" to think new trade deals could offset the trade barriers created by Brexit.
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He was limited to one five-year term, during which he began the privatization of government-owned utilities, lowered trade barriers and sought to integrate former guerrillas into civilian society.
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The Philippines was excluded from the Obama-era Trans-Pacific Partnership because its high tariffs and other trade barriers for keeping out foreign competition appeared to be an insurmountable obstacle.
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After Wednesday's meeting at the White House, Trump agreed to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the European Union and the United States start talks on cutting other trade barriers.
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Speaking to the National Association of Realtors on Friday at a Washington hotel, the president denounced the European Union for putting up trade barriers to American farm products and cars.
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The aim will be for the United States to ease its tariffs; in exchange, China will be expected to lower trade barriers and further open its markets to American businesses.
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While China is the chief source of the global oversupply of steel and aluminum, it currently ships little steel and aluminum to the US because of previously imposed trade barriers.
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Many in Corporate America agree with the Trump administration's goal of getting China to play fair on trade, especially the use of non-trade barriers such as forced technology transfers.
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After more than three years of painstaking negotiations, an ambitious effort to dismantle trade barriers between the European Union and United States stalled amid opposition from, of all places, Germany.
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"It is very consistent with the president's stance on liking trade barriers, liking protectionism," Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said of the report.
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Here's what's likely to happen next: Washington and the European Union remain at odds over aircraft subsidies, trade barriers, and plans by European countries to impose taxes on digital services.
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So while NAFTA eliminates most tariff and trade barriers, it doesn't subordinate local sovereignty in any significant way – an important hot spot for the millions of Britons who supported Brexit.
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Mr. Trump believes the United States can reduce its dependency on other governments by imposing high trade barriers and ensuring that the goods that Americans consume are made at home.
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Anything that impedes companies from achieving that target, such as a bump from a trade spat or further dollar appreciation in anticipation of new trade barriers, would undermine equity valuations.
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Without rules of origin, non-member countries can skirt around tariffs and other trade barriers by exporting goods through the lowest-tariff member country and into the other member nations.
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Trump agreed in July to hold back on a threatened 25 percent import tariff on EU cars while the two sides discussed removing trade barriers, including duties on industrial goods.
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Trump did open the door to giving China more time to reduce trade barriers and address other irritants if they make good-faith efforts, such as purchasing more U.S. goods.
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Experts warn that new trade barriers and tariffs would wipe out years of economic growth in the United Kingdom and put the country's auto industry at risk of total collapse.
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Trump told a news conference with Abe after their summit that he wanted U.S. exports to be put on a fair footing in Japan through the removal of trade barriers.
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For automakers, the rapidly changing trade barriers is causing them to rethink major production decisions made years ago when few people expected tariffs to be imposed or threatened with such force.
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Trump agreed to refrain from imposing tariffs on European-made cars, while the two sides started discussions on reducing other trade barriers in a bid to avert a transatlantic trade war.
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On the other hand, increased deficits, reduced public investment, curtailed immigration and new trade barriers — all of which have been proposed at various points by President Trump — would all reduce growth.
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But the results, at least so far, and I understand it&aposs early, is that instead of lowering their trade barriers in response to our threats, they&aposre raising their tariffs.
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While investors are looking ahead to see how increasing trade barriers between China and the United States might affect corporate earnings, political turmoil remained a focus for financial markets on Thursday.
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Eliminating trade barriers and encouraging trade among a bunch of Pacific Rim countries gives those countries alternatives to selling goods in the Chinese market and reduces China's economic leverage over them.
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While the U.S. has its own protectionist tariffs (for example, a 25 percent tariff on imported trucks), our competitors generally have higher tariff and non-tariff trade barriers than we do.
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Pompeo's remarks at the U.S.-India Business Council refer to a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to end preferential trade treatment for India from June 5 over the trade barriers.
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"As policy priorities go, undoing the trade barriers put in place with durable agreements and reining in geopolitical tensions top the list," the IMF said in its October World Economic Outlook.
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That ought to mollify MPs from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, who have threatened to vote down any Brexit deal that erects new trade barriers between the province and the mainland.
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LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - Britain would face trade barriers if it left the European Union and its single market, the EU's financial services commissioner Jonathan Hill will say later on Monday.
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Increased trade barriers would likely pose problems for German industrial companies with large footprints in the U.S., said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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" "China will have no choice but use non-trade barriers, such as retractions on U.S. investment in China and their profits, or double the size of tariffs imposed on U.S. goods.
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Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro cited Japan on Monday for non-tariff trade barriers and said Washington must use its leverage as the world's largest market to boost U.S. exports.
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With trade barriers, mainly tariffs, likely to rise for products exported from the UK to the 27 other EU countries, the UK will be a less desirable location for U.S. firms.
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Trump told a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday that he wanted exports to be put on fair footing in Japan through the removal of trade barriers.
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But he made clear the EU would be willing to act against the US whether it was related to a border tax proposal or the erection of other arbitrary trade barriers.
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Higher trade barriers might generate some new manufacturing jobs, but it probably wouldn't create those jobs in the same Rust Belt towns that have lost jobs over the past 15 years.
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However, trade barriers are unlikely to bring manufacturing jobs back as investors would likely be reluctant to commit capital to manufacturing ventures that are only viable on the back of protection.
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The British economy would be at serious risk: About 44 percent of British exports go to the EU, so new UK-EU trade barriers could well cause a new British recession.
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Global Trade Alert recently found that most G20 countries, including Germany and Japan, have put in place substantial new non-tariff barriers, despite the G20's commitments to reduce trade barriers.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping, delivering an address at the China International Import Expo on Tuesday, called for international tensions to be resolved through discussion, urging the removal of global trade barriers.
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In recent decades, the EU has made great progress in dismantling trade barriers among member countries, allowing the EU to function as a single integrated economy much like the United States.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain welcomed an initiative agreed between U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to cut trade barriers, easing the threat of a transatlantic trade war.
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I MEAN, YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT WE PUSH VERY HARD TO TRADE AND THAT LEADS TO LOWER TRADE BARRIERS, BETTER ACCESS TO THEIR MARKETS, BETTER PROTECTION OF OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
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A wider set of trade barriers, however, will impose mounting costs on American businesses and families (even if the costs are greater on China, whose growth depends especially heavily on exports).
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The United States and China are locked in a trade war over U.S. demands that China change its policies on intellectual property protection, technology transfers, industrial subsidies and other trade barriers.
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Trump left the meeting between the world's leading industrialized countries with a warning to U.S. allies, saying that if they don't remove trade barriers with the U.S. they will face consequences.
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The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership aims to level trade barriers between the 10 ASEAN members and six other countries in a bloc encompassing nearly a third of all global trade.
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"Should trade barriers or higher duties hinder exports from Germany, it could lead to employees fearing more for their jobs, especially those working at companies relying heavily on exports," he added.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday that rising tensions in trade negotiations between the U.S. and the rest of the world will help lower trade barriers for American companies.
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A solution that keeps America strong by making it economically wise to invest in domestic manufacturing while knocking down trade barriers that prevent U.S. products from entering markets around the world.
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BMW, along with other German-based European arms of GM and Ford, all of which have U.K. based plants, have suggested that trade barriers would bring significant and currently incalculable costs.
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China has warned Trump about putting up trade barriers, with President Xi Jinping telling him on Monday that cooperation was "the only choice" for relations between the world's two largest economies.
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"Another fast-developing steel market investing in internal capacity and erecting trade barriers cannot be a long-term benefit for the global industry," the ISSB said in a note on Vietnam.
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For years, the company lobbied the United States government to take action to protect the aluminum industry, advocating tariffs and other trade barriers to stop imports of cheap metal from China.
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The forum's chairman, PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, said in his closing remarks at APEC that the region had to focus on reducing trade barriers to ensure prosperity for all people.
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ISTANBUL, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Turkey asked the United States to lift trade barriers between the two countries during talks on Saturday aimed at sharply increasing bilateral commerce, Turkey's trade minister said.
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The report also presented other actions the president could take to stem imports, including trade barriers focused exclusively on autonomous vehicles and parts, according to several people familiar with the findings.
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And while large companies might have the resources and legal teams to navigate those trade barriers, startups often rely on streamlined data sharing agreements to make sure they're operating legally abroad.
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Over the weekend, he predicted China would take down trade barriers and agree to protect America's intellectual property, even as the Chinese ruled out any talks in the current charged atmosphere.
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Analysts said the new sanctions will allow Mr. Maduro to blame the economic crisis, which began when he took office in 2013, on the trade barriers imposed by the United States.
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Many British companies, having already been battered by uncertainty over Brexit, can scarcely afford new trade barriers that threaten to snarl supply chains and make their products and services more expensive.
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Indonesia's trade minister Enggartiasto Lukita in July said he will advise Washington that Indonesia will remove trade barriers for U.S. apples following a WTO ruling as part of lobbying for GSP.
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The country's ambassador to Britain, Koji Tsuruoka, issued a blunt warning about Brexit in February when he said Japanese companies would have to leave Britain if trade barriers made them unprofitable.
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"Economic principles suggest that trade barriers will weigh on productivity in the longer term, as countries are forced to produce goods in which they have no comparative advantage," the bank wrote.
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Moreover, market analysts wonder how Mr. Trump will balance these policies, which are mostly positive for financial markets, with his promises to increase trade barriers on goods from Mexico and China.
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Analysts said the new sanctions will allow Mr. Maduro to blame the economic crisis, which began when he took office in 2013, on the trade barriers imposed by the United States.
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A formal notice of withdrawal would give Congress six months to pass the pact or potentially return to a pre-Nafta trading system with higher tariffs and more restrictive trade barriers.
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While the spirits industry may not be directly affected by car tariffs, the imposition of additional trade barriers by Mr. Trump would undoubtedly provoke backlash and more retaliation against American products.
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Some of the purchases, which Mr. Lighthizer has projected will roughly double American exports to China by 2021, are expected to happen naturally, as China lowers trade barriers to American goods.
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The United States wants China to commit to lowering trade barriers, ending the forced transfer of intellectual property in deals with American companies and scaling back subsidies of state-owned enterprises.
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The issue is politically fraught since the Trump administration has made rebuilding U.S. basic metal industries a key promise to voters and views trade barriers as a tool to achieve that.
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Lighthizer said the talks would be tackled in two "tranches", with hopes for an "early harvest" from the initial talks on reductions to tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers in goods.
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Independence might lead to trade barriers at the English border, or different regulations between the two countries, especially if Scotland sought to rejoin the EU, as its government has implied it would.
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But the removal of trade barriers over the last 40 years has also destroyed millions of U.S. factory jobs, once the main source of a decent living for a shrinking middle class.
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In their letter, the groups warned that Beijing's efforts to control more of China's Internet and technology would "effectively erect trade barriers along national boundaries" while failing to achieve its security objectives.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he hoped to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Argentina later this week and to talk about trade barriers.
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The following is a breakdown of the issues unique to the U.S.-China trade talks: ONE-WAY DEAL Traditional free trade agreements aim to lower trade barriers between the countries signing them.
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Last week, China's President Xi Jinping attended for the first time the World Economic Forum in Davos and spoke on the benefits that globalization and reduced trade barriers has provided for China.
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"Lowering trade barriers is critical to ... creating more access to goods for buyers on a global basis," Mike Dabbs, eBay's senior director of government relations for the Americas, said in a statement.
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"Trade barriers emerging in the course of Brexit such as tariffs or regulation would considerably harm supply chains and raise the costs for suppliers," Thomas Schiller, head of automotive at Deloitte, said.
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The second option is that tariffs and other non-trade barriers continue to be raised, until they reach a level where the Chinese and U.S. economies are completely divorced from each other.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina Dias, said on Friday that agribusiness should not be blamed for the fires sweeping through the Amazon rainforest and that potential trade barriers are unjustified.
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Rather than sniping snootily about Donald Trump's taste for well-done steaks slathered with ketchup, liberals should worry about the administration's plans to erect trade barriers and possibly start a trade war.
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"We expect bilateral trade to reach $10 billion a year by 2020...and I hope president Tran Dai Quang would work to remove trade barriers for Indonesian products, including automobiles," he said.
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"JUSTIN has agreed to cut all tariffs and all trade barriers between Canada and the United States," claimed President Donald Trump to laughter on June 27th, at the G27 summit in Quebec.
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The following is a breakdown of the issues unique to the U.S.-China trade talks: ONE-WAY DEAL Traditional free trade agreements aim to lower trade barriers between the countries signing them.
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In addition to worries about trade barriers and drug regulation once Britain leaves the EU, industry executives are concerned about their ability to recruit foreign staff and loss of EU science funding.
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U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to refrain from imposing car tariffs while the two sides launch negotiations to cut other trade barriers, easing the threat of a transatlantic trade war.
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Two U.S. senators this month called on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to soften India's stance on data localization, warning that measures requiring it represent "key trade barriers" between the two nations.
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A major lobby group warned that a disorderly Brexit would disrupt almost every part of the UK economy, and French carmaker PSA said new trade barriers could doom its factory near Liverpool.
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Also, a "no-deal" Brexit would lead to high trade and non-trade barriers between the U.K. and the rest of the European Union with negative consequences for growth, the IMF stated.
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Cramer has staunchly supported a trade war against China and the European Union, among other powers, despite his constituency largely consisting of farmers who have been impacted by tariffs and trade barriers.
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"Canada maintains discriminatory and burdensome nontariff trade barriers impeding U.S. wine exports," Tom LaFaille, vice president and international trade counsel for the wine group said in the letter commenting on trade deficits.
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Trump has been less forthcoming about his own plan for rural America, but this much is true: American farmers have benefitted greatly from international agreements that remove tariffs and other trade barriers.
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Investment flows to locations with low trade barriers, where the political and business climates are stable, where respect for the rule of law is secure, and where crony capitalism is sufficiently suppressed.
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Trump agreed in July to hold back on a threatened 25-percent import tariff on EU cars while the United States and Europe discussed removing trade barriers, including duties on industrial goods.
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Shares of U.S. steelmakers jumped, with U.S. Steel last up 5.1 percent, but industrial heavyweights like Boeing and Caterpillar fell as investors worried about higher raw material costs and trade barriers elsewhere.
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As Beijing has raised duties on American exports in response to U.S. tariffs, it has lowered trade barriers for other countries, according to an analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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Trade barriers can come in the form of tariffs (taxes on imported goods), quotas (limits on the number of goods that can be imported) or strict regulations that shut out foreign sellers.
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But with trade barriers, subsidies and tariffs still in place around the world, often the question is one of how to achieve a free, or freer, marketplace that will help economies flourish.
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Rising trade barriers in steel and beyond threaten to crimp global economic growth, economists say, while for steelmakers, slowing growth in China, which consumes half the world's steel, is of particular concern.
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The most frequently cited objectives (like fewer foreign trade barriers against our exports) would help the average American but accelerate the pace of creative destruction in some parts of America's industrial heartland.
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Even if the Chinese economy does struggle under the weight of the trade barriers erected by U.S. President Donald Trump, there are still likely to be commodities that can hold their own.
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"You recognize there is no free lunch with trade barriers and they do end up imposing costs on yourself and have to face retaliatory measures that put costs on you," Bown said.
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American tariffs against Mexico and Canada are particularly controversial because NAFTA was designed to virtually eliminate trade barriers between the three countries to make it easier to sell goods to one another.
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The global group, which works to reduce trade barriers and resolve disputes among its members, is increasingly being viewed with skepticism by the United States, which had long been its biggest advocate.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that China would take down its trade barriers and that the two countries would reach a deal on intellectual property.
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It did so on the grounds that the East African countries were contravening rules that require them to show they are "making progress" toward eliminating trade barriers to American goods and investment.
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But tit-for-tat political rhetoric and tariffs, along with tales of dairy farmers' personal struggles with trade barriers, often make bigger headlines than stories about the nefarious manipulation of computer software.
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"If you model a future where everybody else reduces their trade barriers to ours, then that's massively good for the global economy and massively good for the U.S. economy," Mr. Hassett said.
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But that was before Mr. Trump followed through on his plans to impose tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, a move he says will force other countries to lower their trade barriers.
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U.S. President Donald Trump cited trade barriers last year when removing India from its Generalized System of Preferences program that allowed zero tariffs on $5.6 billion of exports to the United States.
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One of Mr. Trump's complaints about Japan, repeated for decades by American trade negotiators, is that its economy is organized to keep foreign products out even without overt trade barriers like tariffs.
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The World Trade Organization said in a report on Wednesday that trade barriers being erected by major economies could jeopardize the global economic recovery and their effects are already starting to show.
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Some of the Koch-supported initiatives, such as eliminating trade barriers and protecting immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, contrast directly with policies implemented by President Donald Trump.
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Against this backdrop, boosting Sino-Russia bilateral trade could open a door to growth for both Moscow and Beijing as lawmakers and officials confront trade barriers like sanctions and imports tariffs elsewhere.
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Growth is expected to slow dramatically this year as Europe grapples with new trade barriers, uncertainty over Brexit and political spats that undermine confidence in the euro and put banks under stress.
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Here's what's likely to happen next: EUROPEAN UNION Washington and the European Union remain at odds over aircraft subsidies, trade barriers, and plans by European countries to impose taxes on digital services.
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At the dawn of the atomic age, U.S. government incentives and trade barriers sparked a gold rush for uranium, the chemical element that was fueling the nuclear arms race at the time.
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However, it is also important because the paper constitutes a little-noticed approach to countering China's digital trade barriers and demonstrates the administration's willingness to use the WTO to establish trade rules.
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China's state council said that it would step up punishment for intellectual property violations - a key sticking point in the U.S.-China conflict - and that it would lower non-tarrif trade barriers.
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The trade dispute between the United States and China rattled the world economy during the last 19 months as both countries raised tariffs and other trade barriers while negotiations sputtered and stalled.
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But he added that it would not likely reveal anything that is not already in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's annual list of trade barriers, which also was released on Friday.
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Trump's tariff announcement and Cohn's subsequent departure represent a kind of double victory for Navarro, as well as others in the White House advocating for erecting big trade barriers around the US economy.
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He has now taken firm control of the trade rules he long decried, and is in position to reverse decades of American presidents pushing for lower trade barriers and an interconnected global economy.
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While the immediate market reaction to the tariffs taking effect on Thursday was muted, investors and analysts will look to see how the increased trade barriers impact corporate earnings in the months ahead.
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Both said they agreed to increase space cooperation and to work to lower trade barriers after the U.S. imposed restrictions recently on imports of Brazilian steel and aluminum, though they gave no details.
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But the fact that China underpins Australia's prosperity, through its demand for minerals, food and other goods, makes her question some of Mr Trump's policies, especially the threat of trade barriers against China.
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Kevin Cramer called on Trump to continue to use his arsenal of trade barriers in order to beat China, which he believes will lead to a stronger position for the U.S. in negotiations.
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However, the original 12-member TPP, which aims to cut trade barriers in some of Asia's fastest-growing economies, was thrown into limbo in January when U.S. President Trump withdrew from the agreement.
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A wealth of studies looking at the micro level assess what happens when firms are subjected to some sort of unexpected shock—say, the removal of trade barriers, leading to higher import competition.
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Trump said on Monday he will address his proposed immigration overhaul in his State of the Union speech as well as his efforts to lower trade barriers around the world for American exports.
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It said the strong economy provided opportunities for more ambitious reforms to level the playing field for the domestic private sector and boost investment by reducing administrative and licensing procedures and trade barriers.
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US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin triggered a brawl over protectionism during his first overseas meeting last month when he blocked fellow G20 finance ministers from issuing a longstanding exhortation against erecting trade barriers.
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As for the EU referendum, it is hard to imagine many countries where the Remain and Leave campaigns would, as in Britain, squabble over which outcome would do more to lower trade barriers.
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In fact, the US and Mexico have such tightly interconnected economies that putting up trade barriers today could end up causing more job losses than were caused by NAFTA in the first place.
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Hurt by Trump's threats to impose trade barriers on Mexico and hit by the prospect of higher U.S. rates, the peso weakened to a record low of roughly 22 per dollar in January.
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Nomura said in a research note last week that U.S. trade barriers on high-tech products from China could hurt China's parts suppliers - Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea and Singapore – more than China itself.
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On Ireland, such a scenario appears hugely complicated without raising some form of trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. That would be anathema to the hardline Protestant DUP.
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In the seventies and eighties, the Pratan system of interconnected workshops ran smoothly, but in the nineties, as trade barriers fell around the world, fashion houses saw an opportunity too good to resist.
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Like with the European Union, these tariffs put us in a better negotiating position to demand the reduction of Chinese trade barriers in order to expand markets for American small businesses and farmers.
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To understand how dismantling trade barriers helps the country, we also need to take a broader view of the American economy, and not focus solely on disruptions and lost jobs in particular sectors.
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After a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the White House on Wednesday, Trump agreed to refrain from imposing car tariffs while they start talks on cutting other trade barriers.
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He has pledged to create an oil and gas boom that will spawn "massive new wealth" and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to eliminate "big trade barriers" for American products.
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Critics in the United States complain that the W.T.O. allows China to keep steep trade barriers: triple the average tariffs of the United States and double the average tariffs of the European Union.
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The proposed Latinamérica Unida would be similar in structure to the European Union, a federation of nations with internal freedom of movement, a single currency, no trade barriers among members, and common regulations.
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A major selling point for the World Trade Organization, founded in 1995, was that it would relax trade barriers so "food is cheaper" — though such deals can also influence diet for the worse.
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Since President Trump initiated tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese goods in July, Beijing has been able to put up equal trade barriers on its end, ratcheting them up tit-for-tat.
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The International Monetary Fund lowered its expectations for 2019 to 3 percent, the lowest rate since the financial crisis, saying that rising trade barriers and uncertainty were reducing investment and capital-goods demand.
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U.S. President Donald Trump cited trade barriers last year when removing India from its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program that allowed zero tariffs on $5.6 billion of exports to the United States.
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The long held expectation that China's behavior would be tempered as the world lowered trade barriers and offered greater political engagement has not come to pass, this official said, prompting the re-evaluation.
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