Roberts Is Open to Trade, But Making No Demands
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Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts says that he would welcome a move to a contending team but he is not asking to be traded.
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Veteran left wing Gary Roberts has waived his no-trade clause so the Florida Panthers can deal him to the Pittsburgh Penguins, his agent said Tuesday.
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Venezuela's leader says his plans to sign big arms deals in Russia does not make him an aggressor.
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The US Trade Representative on Monday rejected the European Union&#39;s assertion that its ban on beef from hormone-treated cattle is now justified by science and that US and Canadian retaliatory sanctions should be lifted.
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Both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry profess to be &quot;free traders,&quot; opposed to tariffs and other impediments to commerce.
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The US offers trade concessions to the EU as compensation for refusing to change gambling rules.
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Analysts see little need to spin off the retailer's commercial supply business.
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Chambers of commerce almost always observe their version of Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" for Republicans. They rarely speak ill of one another in public.
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Objections to proposed open-access rules on parts of the 700MHz spectrum are of less concern.
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The World Trade Organization has authorized punitive sanctions against US exports ranging from lobsters to crane trucks because Washington has failed to repeal the so-called Byrd amendment.
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is rallying for free trade agreements during its huge&#160;Consumer Electronics Show&#160;this week, saying barrier-free trade with other countries is crucial to the growth of U.S. jobs.Support for free trade isn&#39;t as strong in Washington, D.C., as it has been in past years, with several presidential candidates expressing concerns about free trade agreements, Gary Shapiro, the group&#39;s chief executive, said at a CES press conference on Monday.Free trade is &quot;something we&#39;ve taken for granted as an industry,&quot; Shapiro said. &quot;For the first time in my career, I am concerned about the future of free trade ... primarily because in Congress, on television, and with some of our presidential candidates, free trade is not a given.&quot;Shapiro, who has given his personal support to Republican Mitt Romney&#39;s presidential campaign, declined to single out presidential candidates who he saw as antitrade, but leading Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama have all expressed concerns about free trade agreements, often because of environmental concerns. Mike Huckabee, winner of the Iowa presidential caucuses on the Republican side, said in an October debate that the U.S. doesn&#39;t have fair trade with other countries because &quot;an American company is having to pay an extraordinarily high tax on everything they produce, but the countries who are exporting to us don&#39;t have the same border adjustability that we do.&quot;But Shapiro and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said Monday that free trade agreements are critically important to the consumer electronics and IT industries.&quot;This is real money for real people in the United States,&quot; Schwab said during the CEA press conference from Las Vegas. &quot;If there were ever a sector of the economy, if there were ever an industry, where you see the very, very clear converging of the benefits of free trade, of free markets and of the protection of intellectual property, this is it.&quot;Shapiro and Schwab called on Congress to approve free trade agreements that are pending with Columbia, Panama and South Korea. Including a trade agreement with Peru approved by Congress in December, those four countries represent about 124 million consumers, Schwab said.One reporter asked why U.S. residents should support free trade when they see friends or relatives losing jobs to workers in other countries, imported toys containing chemicals that harm children, or pet food that kills dogs and cats.Free trade can cause problems for a small number of workers, but many more U.S. workers have jobs because of free trade, Shapiro said. Free markets have &quot;temporary dislocations,&quot; but in the long term, countries cannot protect individual jobs in a global economy, he said. &quot;A great country doesn&#39;t put up walls,&quot; Shapiro added.Schwab said her office is working hard to crack down on imports of dangerous products. &quot;Our responsibility as a government is, first and foremost, the health and safety of our citizens,&quot; she said.
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Republican Mitt Romney said Monday he would not necessarily have to agree politically with any appointees he would seek to place on the Supreme Court, but he would expect them to be strict legal constructionists in the model of Chief Justice John Roberts.
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US finance minister Henry Paulson says the booming hedge fund industry does not require tighter regulation.
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Cowboy diplomacy. Unilateralism. Foreign governments have sharply criticized President Bush&#39;s foreign policy in many ways. But on one issue, international trade, you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief over his reelection.
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The US says it will take the unusual step challenging Nafta findings that Canadian wood imports pose not threat to the US lumber industry.
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The United States on Thursday sent its clearest signal yet it is open to bilateral talks with Iran and Syria by saying it will not rebuff them if they wish to discuss stabilizing Iraq at a regional meeting this weekend.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger didn&#39;t bare his biceps when he met Japan&#39;s leader on Friday but he did pledge to flex his muscles to promote trade.