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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: a treaty signed in Geneva in 1947 that aimed to foster multilateral trade and settle trading disputes between adherent countries. Initially signed by 23...
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Secretary-General appoints Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 February 2007-UN: Secretary-General appoints Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public InformationC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09022007 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public...
Tags: GATT, Japan, MARKETING, OECD
Research articles 2007-02-12
Dangers of Unregulated Counsel in the WTO, The
I. INTRODUCTIONDespite growing concerns that the World Trade Organization ("WTO") is ill-equipped to handle the myriad ethical issues that accompany the use of non-governmental counsel, the Appellate Body decided to defer to the sovereignty of its members and permit private attorneys to represent parties in trade disputes. Some reasoned that...
Tags: American Bar Association, Bananas, counsel, FINANCE, GATT, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2005-07-01
CAP reforms and multilateral trade negotiations: another view on discourse efficiency.(Common Agricultural Policy)
This article focuses on intellectual capabilities as a means of promoting and influencing policy change through producing more efficient discourses. This approach is applied to the study of political strategies developed by the European Commission in order to promote its reformist views of the Common Agricultural Policy CAP. Two distinct...
Tags: agriculture, analysis, commission, Commissioner, Council, European Commission, GATT, negotiation, OECD, SALES
Research articles 2004-03-01
Labour Standards through International Organisations: the Global Compact in comparative perspective *.
How can international organisations be used to encourage basic labour standards in globalised production processes? Recent experience suggests that international organisations might contribute importantly to bridging the gap between activists, firms and governments, and yet there is little agreement on either the appropriate enforcement mechanism...
Tags: activist, FINANCE, GATT, government, ISO, legitimacy, Quality, regulation, standards, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2003-09-22
United States Makes Demands for Thai Trade Deal.
By Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 7--The United States has made full compliance with General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Gatt valuation procedures a prere...uisite before any progress can be made on a US-Thai free trade ...
Tags: Bangkok Post, FINANCE, GATT, Investment, tariff, tax, valuation
Research articles 2003-07-07
You are being monitored online.
Sep 23, 2002 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) RMIT University's Adam Gatt has warned of increasingly onerous access conditions to web sites. Many Internet web sites set conditions for access and subscriber monitoring that are ill-defined and not properly covered in law. The...
Tags: GATT, INTERNET, MARKETING, RMIT University, software, Web
Research articles 2002-09-23
The WTO banana dispute settlement and its implications for trade relations between the United States and the European Union.
Introduction I. The Background and History of the Banana Dispute A. Bananas I B. Bananas II C. Bananas III ...
Tags: Europe, European Commission, FINANCE, GATT, settlement, tariff, U.S., World Trade Organization
Research articles 2002-09-22
Anatomy of a controversy: The balance of political forces behind implementation of the WTO's gasoline decision
I. INTRODUCTION The overall effect of [the Uruguay Round] reforms [of the dispute settlement process] will be to make it more costly for a defendant country to escape the pressures of the GATT's enforcement process . . . [but] the political impact of higher resistance costs will depend on the...
Tags: Administration, FINANCE, gasoline, GATT, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Venezuela, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2002-07-01
Thailand Customs Department Defends Price Assessments.
By Wichit Sirithaveeporn, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 27--The Customs Department says it has fulfilled its obligations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Gatt in assessing prices of imported goods. Manit Witayatem, the department's director-general,...
Tags: Bangkok Post, GATT, Thailand
Research articles 2002-03-27
Reciprocity
R ECIPROCITY Reciprocity in diplomatic negotiations is a process of exchange between nations, a negotiating tool whereby nations bargain with each other for equivalent treatment. It can be either restrictive or open in nature. The restrictive form usually is embodied in a bilateral agreement between two countries and can involve...
Tags: agreement, FINANCE, GATT, negotiation, president, tariff, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-01-01
Balancing interests in free trade and health: how the WHO's framework convention on tobacco control can withstand WTO scrutiny.
I. INTRODUCTION Tobacco is one of the most widely consumed products in the world, and yet it has an extremely negative impact on human health. Worldwide, one in three adults, or approximately 1.1 billion people, smoke or consume other tobacco products, and between 82,000...
Tags: EPIDEMIC, FINANCE, GATT, regulation, tobacco, World Health Organization, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2002-01-01
Most-Favored-Nation Principle
M OST -F AVORED -N ATION P RINCIPLE From its inception, the United States has incorporated the most-favored-nation MFN principle into its trade policy. Until 1923 it adhered to its conditional form and thereafter to unconditional MFN treatment. Only with the passage of the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act...
Tags: administration, agreement, concession, FINANCE, GATT, negotiator, tariff, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2002-01-01
U.S. participation in international environmental law and policy
I. INTRODUCTION The United States has often been criticized for its reluctance to ratify multilateral treaties.1 For example, the United States has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child,2 the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,3 or the recently negotiated convention banning anti-personnel landmines.4 Although at the eleventh...
Tags: agency, Cir, environment, Environmental, GATT, Judge, statute, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress, World Bank, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2001-04-01
Charming Betsy, Chevron, and the World Trade Organization: Thoughts on the interpretive effect of international trade law
I. INTRODUCTION "The capitalist achievement," Joseph Schumpeter observed, "does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens, but in bring ing them within the reach of factory girls."1 Ironically, Schumpeter's analytical accuracy has eroded the persuasive force of his maxim. Today, deprivations of panty hose and other important...
Tags: agency, agreement, Chevron Corp., Cir, construction, Federal Reserve Board, GATT, Marshall, petition, Restatement, statute, subsidy, treaty, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Commerce, World Trade Organization
Research articles 2001-04-01
The Misgivings Of Globalisation
'WHERE there is smoke there is fire', says the old dictum. If this metaphor holds for the series of demonstrations against free markets and capitalism which began in June 1999 in London and were later repeated in Seattle, Davos, Bangkok, Melbourne and Prague, where great damage was done by a...
Tags: conference, depression, economist, FINANCE, GATT, Government, ideology, IMF, London, Roosevelt, Seattle, U.N., U.S., World Bank
Research articles 2000-11-01
The Downward Spiral and the US Model Business Principles — Why MNEs Should Take Responsibility for the Improvement of World-Wide Social and Environmental Conditions
Abstract * Nation states and intergovernmental organizations do not have enough power to control the rules of the economic system. The stability of the world order is threatened by a downward spiral of social and environmental standards. * Under these conditions, the economic power of multinational firms could...
Tags: Beck, Companies, conference, Democracy, FINANCE, G., GATT, Globalization, Labor, M., OECD, Quality, standards, Strategy, U.N., World Trade Organization
Research articles 2000-10-01
Toward a green multilateral investment framework: NAFTA and the search for models
I. INTRODUCTION Shortly after the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was concluded in April 1994, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD began talks in May 1995 aimed at creating a Multilateral Agreement on Investment MAI. The MAI, it was hoped, would liberalize investment rules worldwide, facilitating greater...
Tags: agreement, chairman, delegation, environment, Environmental, FINANCE, GATT, investment, investor, NAFTA, OECD, Rio, standards
Research articles 2000-04-01
Dedication to Walter Hollis and Ambassador Julius L. Katz
For a quarter-century, starting at Annecy in 1948, Walter Hollis served as the State Department's trade lawyer-handling international trade negotiations; interpreting U.S. trade law, GATT, and other trade agreements; and advising regarding GATT disputes. He was the equiva lent of what has now become USTR's Office of the General Counsel....
Tags: agreement, GATT, negotiation, U.S., U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2000-04-01
Amplifying the giant sucking sound: Ross Perot and the media in the NAFTA negotiations
Ross Perot's colorful opposition and media coverage of it made the North American Free Trade Agreement controversial and created public opposition. No doubt about it: Ross Perot has a gift for the colorful phrase. Throughout his campaign for president in 1992 and in the ensuing years, Perot's folksy expressions have...
Tags: FINANCE, GATT, media, NAFTA, negotiation, treaty, U.S. Congress
Research articles 1999-04-01
NMEs: A love story, nonmarket and market economy status under U.S. antidumping law
I. INTRODUCTION Under U.S. antidumping law, the approach of the U.S. Department of Commerce DOC to nonmarket economies NMEs in transition has been much criticized as a work in progress with few clear operating standards. With only minimal guidance from Congress on how to define and deal with NMEs in...
Tags: agreement, China, DOC, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, GATT, Government, merchandise, Poland, Republic, Russia, salary, SALES, Strategy, tariff, U.S., U.S. Department of Commerce, Ukraine
Research articles 1999-01-01