Their nascent ideas from the night before began to take shape, and teams and roles were finalized over breakfast.
Many key details will be finalized over the next three months.
In the Norway deal, details have still not been finalized over whether the moratorium would apply only to virgin forest or be more broadly defined.
If the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the big trade accord covering twelve countries, which was finalized over the weekend, make anything clear, it's that trade deals these days have much less to do with the classic ideas of free trade lowering tariffs and quotas than with things like intellectual-property rules, regulatory standards, and investor protection.
If the negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the big trade accord covering twelve countries, which was finalized over the weekend, make anything clear, it's that trade deals these days have much less to do with the classic ideas of free trade — lowering tariffs and quotas — than with things like intellectual-property rules, regulatory standards, and investor protection.
But Obama also announced policies, to be finalized over the next 4 months, which he said will "make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates, and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to our economy, as so many business leaders have proposed".
As it is finalized over the coming months, the administration must ensure that it is not further watered down.
"The hope is to have a framework in place that can be finalized over the holiday and ready to present to the conferees in early January," said a Democratic aide to the House agriculture committee.
BRUSSELS — Just as the allocation of top posts in the European Commission was being finalized, questions were raised Wednesday over the role once played by the European Union's new foreign affairs representative in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain.
Pricing is being finalized.
