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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China will continue to export, and will manage rare earths based on WTO rules.
Many of these interventions violate the spirit, if not always the letter of WTO rules.
The phase out is written into the WTO rules and China and India would not agree to a delay.
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In the future Russia will have to function within the bound of WTO rules, and eventually adapt to them.
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The gap between what it can charge, under WTO rules, and what it does charge is also unusually small.
One danger today is that, under WTO rules, some countries have scope to put tariffs up without breaching their legal limits.
The ASEAN free-trade agreement itself is only legal under WTO rules because its members are developing countries entitled to special treatment.
But in this crazy letter, the man suggested that Jay sue the U.S. government under WTO rules, and this triggered something.
Nobody in Congress, alas, seems to care about breaking WTO rules.
According to WTO rules, countries must either accept the WTO's stringent patent-protection regime for plant and animal products or set up their own systems for protection.
Canada asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to establish a formal dispute resolution panel to review the EU ban and determine whether the ban complies with WTO rules.
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.
The WTO has rules against export subsidies for manufactured products, and interprets them broadly.
But experts fear the protocol may clash with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.
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.
With it have gone fears that international environmental agreements like the Kyoto Protocol on climate change could be made subservient to the WTO's rules on trade.
WTO's rules (which, to repeat, both Europe and the United States have freely agreed to) do allow countries to ban imports to protect consumers from dangerous products.
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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And even if Canada succeeds in convincing the WTO panel the ban breaks its rules, more than three years could pass before the WTO acts and the EU responds, Canadian officials said.
And one of the rules in the WTO is that each and every country is equal.
Trade policies and practices that are inconsistent with such international rules as the WTO Agreement should be abolished.
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"We have a very large trade agenda to push forward, but we can't because we are paralyzed, " said the veteran trade negotiator, who noted that the rules governing the WTO are outdated.
Clinton and his team emphasize that WTO membership will bind Beijing to international rules of commerce.
Lobbyists can provide plenty of emotive and colourful reasons why the WTO should not pen a set of rules.
The US Government is pursuing a WTO case saying that no, the rules are that you cannot do that.
While more countries get to voice their views if the rules are forged in the WTO than in the OECD, the flipside is that finding consensus could be even more difficult.
WTO, the supposed defender of free-trade rules, is actually in the pocket of big business.
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