It has seen advantages in the doctrine of state equality (which it uses to defend against human-rights complaints) and has gained from the liberalization of trade.
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So while this period started liberalization of trade, lowering of trade barriers, less control and less oversight, it also led to an increase in bribes (to get your goods out of customs more quickly, for instance) and higher tax evasion.
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The president is determined to complete the reforms before the end of his term in 1998 -- tax reform, protection of intellectual property, retail trade liberalization, reform of the Philippine National Police, amendments to the Expanded Value Added Tax, more incentives to investors, judicial reforms.
"If we see a headline relating to the commitment of APEC leaders to accelerate the pace of liberalization and the removal of barriers to trade despite the turmoil, that would be a very good result, " says Robert Denham, chairman of U.S. investment house Salomon Inc. and a member of the APEC Business Advisory Council.
Mr Anthony said that not everyone in the Western Hemisphere can proclaim the glories of trade liberalization.
His static model does not let him mention, let alone understand, that gains from trade should drive a policy of trade liberalization.
We will go through extensive consultations with our stakeholders, with Congress, as well as with the Japanese to go through the issues -- and I mentioned agriculture, services, manufacturing, including non-tariff measures, and to discuss the ambition level of the TPP and Japan's willingness to address trade liberalization in a sort of comprehensive way that would make them a good candidate for membership.
So we will work with the EU to facilitate more trade within the region, build on existing agreements to promote integration with U.S. and European markets, and open the door for those countries who adopt high standards of reform and trade liberalization to construct a regional trade arrangement.
And when they were serious, they spoke of grand plans for trade liberalization two decades into the next century.
Second, even to the extent that trade liberalization would raise the efficiency of the world economy, it is not, repeat not, a route to overall job creation.
And in our efforts to liberalize this trade liberalization there is this issue of TPP, and our original intention was to make a decision on the negotiations -- our stance on the negotiation for a TPP in June.
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To "ease the transition, " China has reportedly put in place a plan to tax its own exports of textiles and apparel after global trade liberalization begins on Jan. 1.
Dinakar's stories on retail and other trade-liberalization effects on the economic welfare of the nation attracted the eye of the sponsoring International Policy Network.
When Democrats regained control of Congress in January 2007, the emphasis of U.S. trade policy shifted from liberalization and accommodation to enforcement and prosecution.
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President Mikhail Gorbachev has no doubt been impressed by China's success in carrying out domestic economic liberalization and foreign trade reforms as well as establishing workable terms of agreement with the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) .
There has been more buzz about the prospects for trade liberalization this year than at any time since the first term of the second president Bush.
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They are also a major factor eroding the competitiveness of domestic industry, which will face increasing foreign competition under WTO and ASEAN trade liberalization commitments.
Economic liberalization, including industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced controls on foreign trade and investment, began in the early 1990s and has served to accelerate the country's growth, which has averaged more than 7% per year since 1997.
And the increasing likelihood of a constitutional standoff between George Bush and his congressional foes could distract further from trade liberalization and pressure the dollar.
Under the ASEAN Free Trade Area, members have to adopt tariff cuts and other liberalization measures, on pain of exclusion from AFTA. However, if intervention is done not in pursuit of the grouping's goals, but at the behest of outside forces, then ASEAN appears to be an instrument of, rather than a bulwark against, big-power bullying.
If global free trade and liberalization within the various countries can continue to be fostered, there should be occasion for more of the same in the future.
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