So far, Georgia is the only thing standing between Russia and the World Trade Organization.
The Doha Trade Round, for example, looks moribund, and the World Trade Organization appears less than robust these days.
Shanghai generally seems pretty upbeat and the World Trade Organization-bound China seems willing, if not desperate, to reinvent and integrate itself into the New Economy.
He champions unionized labor and working families and would immediately cancel U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that they push American jobs overseas.
India is one of the fastest-growing outbound markets with a projected growth rate of 16% and the World Trade Organization projects the market to reach 50 million by 2020, up from the current level of 12 million.
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The fellowship, which is a partnership with three multilateral organizations- the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), will provide three ambitious African professionals with an opportunity to gain first-hand experience at the highest levels of the multilateral organizations and gain insights into the process of policy making.
Last week the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, created by the U.S. Congress and made up of 11 American economists and other experts, released its reform recommendations for the IMF, the World Bank, the Asian, Latin American and African development banks, the World Trade Organization and the Bank for International Settlements.
It also wins the Chinese new friends--and their votes it needs in international forums like the United Nations and World Trade Organization as it takes an ever larger role on the world stage.
The following highlights of Chairman Spence's report should be considered to be required reading for his colleagues and their constituents prior to action on the question of whether further to abet China's ability to engage in ominous activities thanks to the additional wealth the PRC will accrue with PNTR and membership in the World Trade Organization.
These covered pensions, medication prices, the overhauling of entire industries and Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization, Amur tigers and hip-hop music, and everything in between.
The keys to keeping them valuable are permanent normal trade status and admission of China into the World Trade Organization, whose cumbersome procedures can keep the American market wide open.
Various negotiations through GATT and more recently the World Trade Organization have greatly liberalized the international marketplace.
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The victor will succeed Mayor Paul Schell, who was defeated in the primary amid voter frustration over the 1999 World Trade Organization riots and the city's loss of economic mainstay Boeing.
Numerical targets lead to managed trade, which flies in the face of the free market system, most notably by deviating from the principles of economic efficiency and well-being embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement.
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Since negotiations with China haven't worked, the United States is taking its copyright and anti-piracy concerns to the World Trade Organization, the Bush administration's trade representative says.
However, I reject the "managed trade" approach of the World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement and Central American Free Trade Agreement.
And the country's quest to assume its place among world powers -- including its aspirations to join the World Trade Organization and to recover Taiwan -- means that its leaders will need to demonstrate greater sensitivity to international political and social sensibilities.
The Hong Kong talks, from 13 to 18 December, mark the end of the World Trade Organization's Doha development round, aimed at eliminating unfair trade barriers and giving the world's poorest countries easier access to global markets.
Negotiating States underlined that the draft Agreement respects fundamental rights and freedoms and does not go against the provisions of World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
In both India and Thailand, accession to the World Trade Organization may spell disaster for local herbalists.
Medvedev stressed that Russia is an open market now and pointed to membership in the World Trade Organization as a indication of that.
The move drew complaints from China, who struck back with threats of possible tariffs of their own and a formal appeal to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Support for LDCs should also include implementation of their fast-track accession to the World Trade Organization and their participation in multilateral trade negotiations.
Now comes news that Vietnam is entering the World Trade Organization and that the U.S. could soon establish permanent normal trade relations with the country.
Washington also pledges to support Russia's increased participation in major international economic organizations like the World Trade Organization and the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
It needs to create new jobs for the millions employed in state-owned enterprises and the farming sector whose jobs will become redundant after China joins the World Trade Organization.
To prevent a repeat of 1930s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, governments yielded significant powers over trade policy to supranational bodies such at the World Trade Organization (previously the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the European Union.
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