Sentence examples for trade tactics from inspiring English sources

The U.S. threatened to withdraw military aid and engage in punitive trade tactics with Ecuador after it introduced the breastfeeding resolution at the World Health Assembly, the Times reported.

The Bush administration, which views the moratorium as an illegal trade tactic, filed the equivalent of a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization in May.

Instead, silver flooded out of U.K. coffers to buy the tea and porcelain coveted by increasing numbers of British citizens — until British traders stanched the torrent by shipping opium to China, an egregious trade tactic that ended in war.

It pits European leaders, who say they are worried about the safety of importing genetically altered crops from the United States, against the Bush administration, which insists that Europe's attempts to block the crops are an illegal trade tactic.

He said the US government rejected economic espionage as a trade tactic.

The hedge fund — SAC Capital — is no stranger to aggressive trading tactics.

The companies and other power sellers have denied engaging in manipulative trading tactics.

In his testimony, Mr. Yoder offered a similar assessment of the propriety of the trading tactics.

He said "hidden manipulation, illegal naked short selling and illegitimate trading tactics" posed a threat to proper functioning markets.

Mr. Spitzer contends that Mr. Stern used illegal trading tactics to take in profits at the expense of mutual-fund investors.

The rules were needed, he said, "to ensure that hidden manipulation, illegal naked short selling or illegitimate trading tactics do not drive market behavior and undermine confidence".