trade council

Also trades coun·cil

[treyd koun-suhl]

noun

1. a central council composed of local trade unions.

Example Sentences

The BC Lumber Trade Council, which represents British Columbian lumber producers in Canada on trade matters, in September called the new tariffs "misguided and unnecessary."

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But John Pickel, vice president of supply chain policy for the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents many shipping firms, fears the issues may get worse before they get better.

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At a hearing, a lobbyist representing the trade unions called it a “law to suppress wages” and compared the policy to the Jim Crow era, while a local trade council director told lawmakers the bill “will compel our workers to be shackled and start singing chain-gang songs.”

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"He's playing the good cop," William Alan Reinsch, the former head of the National Foreign Trade Council, told the BBC.

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The former director of the White House National Trade Council reported to federal prison after Chief Justice John G. Roberts denied Navarro’s first attempt to avoid incarceration.

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