Because the proposed pipeline would cross the US border it will require a State Department permit determining the project to be in the national interest.
For this reason, the U.S. tax rules governing the dollar-for-dollar foreign tax credit require a U.S. company to exhaust all effective remedies to reduce its taxes under foreign law, or else the credit will be denied in other words, U.S. law expects a U.S. company to take responsible measures to reduce its foreign tax liability, because this has long been understood to be in the national interest.
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Last September the then Education Secretary Charles Clarke said he wanted a "national debate" on whether certain key subjects should be protected in the national interest.
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Your second question asked whether I thought a landmine ban that did not accommodate these positions would be in the national security interest of the United States.
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The second, more complex challenge lies in assessing which preferences should be kept in the interest of national economic health.
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In other words, there could be circumstances in which it was in the British national interest to contribute to a Greek rescue (not that you'll hear prime minister or chancellor admit that, in anything other than conditions of a clear and present danger of Greek meltdown).
She said it was the authority's job to assess the proposals and decide if the mine would be in the public interest, or if it could be located outside the national park.
The admission of up to 70, 000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest, provided that this number shall be understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2013 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions program, as provided below.
"I think this is the right time to sort out Europe's problems, sort out the eurozone problem, defend your national interest, and look to the opportunities there may be in the future to repatriate powers back to Britain - and obviously the idea of some limited treaty change in the future might give us that opportunity, " he told a news conference.
So it was important that standing before the marching band and the dignitaries, fresh off the plane, he said the US was proud to stand with Israel as its "strongest ally and... greatest friend", and that it was in America's national security interest to be close to Israel, in an uncertain time in the Middle East.
Although Mr Clarke did not refer directly to the Conservative leader's referendum pledge, he warned that it was in the UK's "vital national interest that we avoid the fatal mistake that would be a No vote if a referendum is held in the next few years".
We believe, on the contrary, that strong American action against Saddam is overwhelmingly in the national interest, that it must be supported, and that it must succeed.
"No country discusses its military strategy in public in the manner in which South Africa is expected to do.... Those who are engaging in this game should be careful not to endanger both the national interest and the security of the Republic while pursuing party political goals, " he said.
"I've always been very clear it's in our national interest as a trading nation to be in the single market, " he said.
We are forced to come to grips with the reality that our ideals can sometimes be in conflict with what is in our national interest.
Last year Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar insisted the pipeline was "in Pakistan's national interest and will be pursued and completed irrespective of any extraneous considerations".
However, it can claim primacy over national courts and may take over national investigations and proceedings at any stage if this proves to be in the interest of international justice.
Ministers say they want to opt out of the package because the UK does not need to be bound by them - but then negotiate to rejoin individual measures where it is in the national interest to do so.
Last year, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the pipeline was "in Pakistan's national interest" and would be completed "irrespective of any extraneous considerations".
Wherever you come down on the advisability of America engaging militarily in yet-another Middle Eastern nation, if we decide it is in our national interest to do so, it should be up to our elected representatives, not the United Nations, the Arab League or some other multilateral entity.
Still, the shift in public diplomacy may mark a slightly broader approach towards what China perceives to be in its national interest.
The details are under review: foreigners may be allowed to buy a bit more without restriction, and still more if the government thinks it is in the national interest.
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He pledged to block any further "transfer of sovereignty or powers" to the EU over the course of this Parliament, promising to be more "robust" than Labour in defending Britain's national interest.
This result suggested the polarized ethnically-based politics of the past may be breaking down, said Julia Sweig of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations in a recent article in The National Interest.
Their definition of national interest and of how American military muscle should be applied in its pursuit does not sit easily with the prime minister's boy-scoutish enthusiasm for doing good deeds in a bad world.
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