More trouble: The company is being investigated in Europe for trade practices and could face a fine.
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung says the current crisis proves that the global trade practices do not necessarily apply to agriculture products.
Plaintiff lawyers argue they are doing a public service by enforcing laws against false advertising and other unfair trade practices.
Two weeks ago, I created a Trade Enforcement Unit to aggressively investigate any unfair trade practices taking place anywhere in the world.
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Those laws are meant to encourage competition and prevent unfair trade practices.
We can't simply cede more jobs or markets to unfair trade practices.
Tsutomu Makino, Japan's Junior Minister for Trade, said he would press to take Indonesia to the World Trade Organization for discriminatory trade practices.
In the lawsuit, Gifford claims that the USGBC has engaged in deceptive trade practices, false advertising and anti-trust in promoting the LEED certification program.
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Most members have maintained their commitment to resist protectionism, including by addressing unfair trade practices through WTO-consistent trade remedy measures rather than ad-hoc policy responses.
We don't need folks who during election time suddenly are worrying about trade practices, but before the election are taking advantage of unfair trading practices.
Particularly, if Japan engages in dumping or other unfair trade practices, as it has in certain past circumstances, the health of the U.S. aerospace industry could be undermined over time.
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If an Illinois business had engaged in similar conduct, it would have been subject to suit under both the Illinois Consumer Fraud Act and the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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Other claims in the suit included unfair competition and false designation of origin under federal trademark law, as well as trademark infringement, unfair trade practices, and injury to business reputation under Texas law.
But more and more Chinese firms are trying to build their WTO or foreign trade practices, said Judy Wang, an international trade lawyer at Troutman Sanders and a former member of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center's training program.
And before that, I was a trade policy and antidumping analyst at a few different international trade law practices in Washington, DC.
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Google Inc. has agreed to change some of its business practices to resolve Federal Trade Commission concerns that those practices could stifle competition in the markets for popular devices such as smart phones, tablets and gaming consoles, as well as the market for online search advertising.
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Trade policies and practices that are inconsistent with such international rules as the WTO Agreement should be abolished.
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This agreement would not have been possible had it not been for Nissan's negotiation of new working practices with Spanish trade unions.
The complexity of these processes is magnified considerably for investment firms that trade internationally due to different practices, regulations, taxes, settlement cycles, etc.
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If it were the trick of accounting practices that all fair trade and all balanced.
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Congress in 1980 barred the Federal Trade Commission, which monitors ad practices, from making broad new rules on food advertising to children.
Lower trade barriers, more flexible work practices and deregulation of product markets have boosted productivity growth and put the economy on a better footing to withstand shocks.
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In March it agreed to a ruling by Japan's fair trade commission to settle a dispute over anticompetitive sales practices. (Intel denies any unlawful conduct.) The European Union and the Korean Fair Trade Commission are now investigating Intel on similar charges.
"As people continue to use mobile phones as a payment option, this problem is likely to grow, " says Malini Mithal, an assistant director in the financial practices division at the Federal Trade Commission.
The story of the feather industry's boom and bust spans three continents and nearly four decades, involving transnational trade, culture clashes, questionable labor practices and a ridiculous bubble market that, when it burst in roughly 1914, wreaked havoc on thousands of people, particularly--argues Sarah Abrevaya Stein in her new book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce--Jews.
Employment rules and trade-union pressure frustrate efforts to change working practices or cut costs.
Airing of such discrepancies has had some politicians talking of a complaint of unfair practices under the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
Mr. Edelman said he had sent a letter on Thursday to the Federal Trade Commission asking them to investigate Facebook's practices specifically.
More than global corporations or countries, illegal production and trade groups have successfully adopted the much-advocated innovative practices of flattening, self-organizing, adapting and scaling.
When successive WTO decisions demolished these arguments, the European governments misled the public as to what the trade body had found and wrongly stated they had modified their practices to come into compliance with treaty obligations.
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