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The Obama administration attempted to negotiate a more limited agreement with China, a bilateral investment treaty, but could not finalize the deal before Mr. Trump took office. — Ana Swanson And Jim Tankersley, New York Times, "Trump Trade Officials Will Present a Hard Line in China, but Internally They Are Divided," 2 May 2018 Previously, the White House had already said that a handshake or a bilateral meeting with Castro was off the table. — Jim Wyss, Nora Gamez Torres And Jacqueline Charles, miamiherald, "Trump skips summit in 'shocking abandonment' of Latin America leadership, analysts say," 10 Apr. 2018 The downgrade, which designated the EU as an international organization from its previous rank as a bilateral mission equivalent to a nation state, was, EU officials say, never formally announced by Washington. — Laurence Norman, WSJ, "U.S. Offers EU Olive Branch Restoring Embassy’s Status," 4 Mar. 2019 The tariffs have already prompted the Chinese to impose tariffs of their own, and if China continues its retaliation effort, the bilateral drug-control efforts could be the next leverage point, experts say. — Matthew Garcia, USA TODAY, "What a U.S.-China trade war could mean for opioid epidemic," 6 July 2018 In a recent interview, Mulroney credited Bush with two major accomplishments: the North American Free Trade Agreement and the 1991 bilateral acid-rain treaty. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "Why Brian Mulroney, Former Canadian Prime Minister, Will Speak at George H.W. Bush's Funeral," 4 Dec. 2018 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held a flurry of bilateral meetings at the United Nations this week and has loudly defended Russia's strategies in meetings at the Security Council. — Fox News, "The Latest: South Sudan urges support for peace effort," 28 Sep. 2018 The Chinese proposals start with an offer to buy large amounts of soybeans and other crops as well as natural gas, thereby reducing the bilateral U.S. trade deficit. — Martin Feldstein, WSJ, "Tariffs Should Target Chinese Lawlessness, Not the Trade Deficit," 27 Dec. 2018 Trump is obsessed, broadly speaking, with the idea that the bilateral US-China trade deficit represents a financial loss to the American people. — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, "A Wall Street Journal interview on trade shows Trump has no idea what he’s doing," 27 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'bilateral.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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