Spaghetti bowl effect refers to a problem of free trade agreements (FTAs) in rules of origin that designate which country a product comes from.

“意大利面条碗”效应是指由于自由贸易协定中的原产地规则所造成的问题。

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Some twenty minutes later, we were hopelessly lost in a spaghetti bowl of northern New Jersey highways, driving in circles, triangles, and figure eights.

大概二十分钟过去了，我们在新泽西北部乱得像意大利面条一样的高速公路上迷失了方向，车子不断地兜圈儿、走三角形、绕8字。

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Bond spreads can go up, down, sideways or even resemble a bowl of spaghetti.

债券差价能上能下，能左能右，甚至与一碗意大利面条相似。

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These will prove thorny, too, as any global talks will have to cope with a spaghetti bowl of bilateral agreements dating back decades.

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The "spaghetti bowl" of UK tax law is to be simplified to cut the burden on business and attract foreign investment, George Osborne has said.

BBC: Tax system 'to be simplified to encourage investment'

"How many cockroaches do you have to find in a bowl of spaghetti" before you won't eat it? he asked.

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