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“How do we make sure we are creating jobs and prosperity as part of the larger picture, the balanced and responsible policy we have [for] all the things we consider when we look at any arms sale?”
Under scrutiny: How the deal “will affect American workers and America’s interests in the Indo-Pacific region.”
A Mexican news service, citing official sources, says an announcement will come in the next few days.
Colombia’s quest to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which could be concluded as soon as April, could have major implications for other Latin American countries -- such as Brazil -- as well as future trade relations with the U.S., according to analysts and private-sector sources.
“The heavier grades of crude oil imported to the U.S. from Canada are a necessary part of the U.S. oil supply mix.”
Kenneth Juster suggests a strategic view of the trade relationship could “lead to a roadmap for a U.S.-India free trade agreement,” though “we are a long way right now from that aspiration.”
The secretary of State plans his first official visit to Ottawa to meet with Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and others.
From 2004 to 2007, Victor Cha he was the director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council.
“Rather than treating China with kid gloves, the president should be much tougher with China – as he promised he would be on the campaign trail.”
“But there was also a lot of truth to it.”
“We think it’s important that we begin to develop some means of countering that with alternative financing measures, financing structures.”
Matt Matthews, the U.S. Ambassador for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, on Thursday outlined the Trump administration's priorities for the 2017 APEC summit, which will take place during President Trump's Asia tour in November, insisting the U.S. remains highly engaged in the region despite its withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“This administration has initiated zero prosecutions to date.”
Taiwanese officials this week signed letters of intent to purchase almost $3 billion worth of U.S. soybeans, corn and wheat during a trade mission that also involved talks with U.S. officials about the prospects for a bilateral free trade agreement, as well as issues with U.S. pork imports.
A delegation of European Union and member state officials will sit down with their counterparts from Washington on Sept. 18 and 19 to discuss the functioning of the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield arrangement that thousands of companies rely on to keep data flowing between the two countries, but sources say companies increasingly are turning their attention to new EU data rules that come into force next year.
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso said Wedneday that Mexico would not continue to renegotiate NAFTA if President Trump begins the process of withdrawing from the deal.
Lighthizer, Ross, Tillerson, McMaster and Kushner on Mexico's “regular agenda of high-level meetings,” the government said.
Richard Grenell is a former U.S. spokesman to the United Nations.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made a similar argument earlier in the week.
Next up for William Hagerty is a full Senate vote.