Concessions (that is, permission to retain trade barriers) were sought and granted in successive negotiating rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
He was involved in the setting up of the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, two great mechanisms of development.
If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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It was embodied in organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund and in treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which makes no mention of tobacco, states that free trade should not interfere with a country's right to protect public health.
The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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.
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
Over five years, the Americans propose to eliminate export subsidies for farm products, and to slash both tariffs on farm goods and trade-distorting subsidies for farmers.
While there will be a lot of emphasis on Libya, also look for discussions on trade and tariffs, offshore accounts and foreign tax credits for corporations and individuals.
Mr Brown has told delegates that action on trade barriers, tariffs and subsidies would benefit not only developing countries, but the entire world economy.
U.S. carmakers have eagerly sought tariffs and various restraints on trade over the years, and they've burned U.S. consumers twice: first, for raising the prices of the goods they want and, second, for decreasing the size of overseas markets they themselves might like to export to.
The EU says the deal will focus on bringing down remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade, and standardise technical regulations and certifications.
He said the deal would focus on bringing down remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade, and standardise technical regulations, standards and certifications.
De Gucht said the deal would center on dismantling any remaining trade tariffs while tackling regulatory and certification barriers.
Russia will have until June 15 of next year to ratify its accession package and immediately move to lower tariffs on trade.
Some liberals are anti-free trade and want to slap tariffs on all exports.
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EU, which means that all members should apply common external tariffs on imports from third countries and adopt a common foreign-trade policy.
And thanks to currency fluctuations creating winners and losers on the trade front, more economy-enervating tariffs are regularly the result.
Since then, trade liberalisation has reduced tariffs on industrial products dramatically, spurring export growth and helping countries like Japan and Korea become industrial giants.
It would be best to broaden the new round to areas such as industrial tariffs, investment and competition policy, to allow more scope for the trade-offs on which a final deal depends.
For tariffs (or even quotas, anti-dumping actions and so on) are not the only limitations to trade.
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Given the mercantilist mindset of trade negotiations, that will only happen if barriers to industrial goods and services are also reduced, especially by big developing countries such as Brazil and India. (The fact that lower tariffs benefit an importing economy is lost on trade negotiators.) In this area, the Geneva deal achieved less.
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But the free-trade area is riddled with exemptions: big markets such as Malaysia and Vietnam maintain high tariffs on imported cars.
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