Sentence examples for impede trade from inspiring English sources

The Canadians have voiced concern that such rules would impede trade and tourism, but they were mandated by Congress.

That agreement forbade any post-1973 measures that might impede trade or the free flow of services.

The organization has been among groups lobbying energetically for a comprehensive agreement to replace the potpourri of existing tariffs and regulations and also to roll back national rules in Europe that may impede trade.

Few believe that China would use a DPP victory as a pretext to attack Taiwan, but many of the island's businesspeople worry that a renewed chill in cross-strait relations could impede trade and investment flows between the two sides and make it more difficult for Taiwan to sign free-trade agreements with other countries.

At the World Economic Forum, David Cameron, the British prime minister, and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, were among a host of leaders and business people pleading for a pact that would eliminate tariffs as well as regulations that impede trade.

At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany were among a number of leaders and business people pleading for a pact that would eliminate tariffs as well as regulations that impede trade.

The unrest, which has included gangs blocking roads with downed trees and mobs looting tea plantations, has impeded trade across the region.

There has been a significant increase in new measures impeding trade worldwide since the crash, to a net 2,500 a year since 2008, compared with barely half that number in 2000.

East Asia has also made huge strides in education, which has improved the quality of its workers.Antoni Estevadeordal of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the poor infrastructure has impeded trade within Latin America as well as the creation of inter-regional supply chains.

Impeding trade in conflict minerals is also a piece of the Congo puzzle, and because of public pressure, a group of companies led by Intel and Motorola is now developing a process to audit origins of tantalum in supply chains.

That is too slow for many businessmen, and, to the extent it impedes trade and growth, too slow for the hundreds of millions in the two countries who have yet to reap much benefit from their growing economies.