The extension of permanent normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Republic of Moldova will permit the United States to avail itself of all rights under the WTO Agreement with respect to the Republic of Moldova.
If persuading the 15 members of the EU is going to be difficult, and winning agreement among all 147 members of the WTO still harder, then persuading the 535 members of Congress to keep their hands off a trade bill will be all but impossible.
Negotiating States underlined that the draft Agreement respects fundamental rights and freedoms and does not go against the provisions of World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
The conclusion of the WTO Agreement will improve market access and reinforce the multilateral trade system.
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As part of its WTO agreement, China now circulates draft laws and regulations for 30 days to collect comments.
In the past few years, China has become remarkably adept at adhering to the letter of the WTO agreement, while flagrantly violating its spirit.
Indeed the WTO agreement opens sectors of the Chinese market to a degree that can easily have political repercussions.
Nearly 38 percent (45 of 119) of the WTO cases in which U.S. policies have been challenged concern U.S. violations of the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
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As part of its WTO accession agreement in 2001, China agreed to allow the United States and other WTO members to treat it differently indeed, discriminatorily on several matters for a number of years after it joined the WTO.
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Those who urge that a global World Trade Organization agreement is preferable to a series of bilateral and multilateral pacts ignore the WTO's very limited progress towards creating global free trade.
Just as U.S. antidumping administration has so frequently run afoul of the U.S. law, it has also been found on dozens of occasions to violate U.S. obligations under the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
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The extension of permanent normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Russian Federation will permit the United States to avail itself of all rights under the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (the "WTO Agreement") with respect to the Russian Federation.
Numerical targets lead to managed trade, which flies in the face of the free market system, most notably by deviating from the principles of economic efficiency and well-being embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement.
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If they faithfully implement the WTO agreement, and respect trade rulings that may go against them, China runs the risk of even greater social upheaval.
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The Doha round of talks at the WTO was intended to favour poorer nations but the likelihood of securing a hoped-for agreement by the end of the year look very slim.
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