Many of these interventions violate the spirit, if not always the letter of WTO rules.
In the future Russia will have to function within the bound of WTO rules, and eventually adapt to them.
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And one of the rules in the WTO is that each and every country is equal.
The rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) generally do not recognise undervalued currencies as an illegal subsidy.
Lobbyists can provide plenty of emotive and colourful reasons why the WTO should not pen a set of rules.
The U.S. and Brazil pursue together the completion in a successful way of the Doha Round of the WTO, with trade rules that will be more transparent and more fair.
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Clinton and his team emphasize that WTO membership will bind Beijing to international rules of commerce.
Everybody would profit were a new round to yield an improved dispute settlement system, as well as new rules for the management, transparency and adequate funding of the WTO.
WTO, the supposed defender of free-trade rules, is actually in the pocket of big business.
As it is, two-thirds of exports are oil and gas, not covered by WTO rules.
One of the tougher negotiation issues pertains to Russian compliance with WTO rules before admission.
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The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations, according to its Web site.
WTO, it might have avoided many of the local-content rules or at least been prepared for import competition.
Rules on investment and customs clearance, among other things, triggered the collapse of the WTO talks, but they are at the forefront of discussions at ASEAN.
Despite the calls in Washington for some sort of sanctions, Mr Bush is still backing Russia's bid to join the WTO because he believes that having to live by its rules will strengthen the rule of law in Russia.
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Yet, challenges abound, and you alluded to a lot of them just a minute ago -- intellectual property protections, adherence to the WTO, rules you mentioned, currency debate, drilling rights, et cetera.
As Dani Rodrik, a Harvard economist, points out, many of the strategic trade and industrial policies that helped South Korea get rich would be illegal under current WTO rules.
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