Sentence examples for trade issue for from inspiring English sources
Textiles are the most sensitive trade issue for poor nations because they depend on basic manufactured goods to provide jobs.
Increased export incentives by China have the potential to create a trade issue for President-elect Barack Obama, particularly regarding textiles.
Adotei Akwei, who follows the diamond trade issue for Amnesty International, the human rights organization, said that the Bush administration had so far delivered "half a loaf" by agreeing to use presidential authority to ban imports on an ad hoc basis.
"This is very much a trade issue for the United States," she says, adding it will have "a huge impact" on the DOD's supply chain and information in its Material Safety Data Sheets.
"Oh, yes, they're powerful," said Veena Jha, the coordinator on trade issues for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
The commission, which handles trade issues for the 27-country bloc, imposed provisional duties of 36.6 percent on imports of large-scale cargo-scanning equipment from China in December.
A guy who works on trade issues for Morocco might need to explain why he asked for political-military reports from Chile.
Long Guoqiang, who studies trade issues for the government's Research Development Center, calculated that every one percentage point drop in rebates would lead to a proportional drop in trade in the industry affected.
"This summit could be a wake-up call for European leaders if they realize that there are big problems with these deals," said Amy Barry, a spokeswoman on trade issues for the aid organization Oxfam.
"It's a bit like enshrining a right to lobby in the E.U./U.S. trade agreement — that is what it is about," said Pia Eberhardt, who follows trade issues for the Corporate Europe Observatory, a nonprofit group in Brussels that is critical of corporate ties to government.
Nevertheless, there are broad policy issues from which he cannot disengage that could affect the aluminum industry and thus Alcoa -- tax and trade issues, for example, or currency policy, where the strength or weakness of the dollar could affect Alcoa's sales abroad.
