"Neither WTO not GATT has direct effect in EU law", nor is the Common Agricultural Policy relevant.
Various negotiations through GATT and more recently the World Trade Organization have greatly liberalized the international marketplace.
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In 1993, delegations from 117 countries approved by consensus a GATT trade treaty aimed at opening up international markets.
The PRC currently enjoys "observer" status in the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and is seeking full membership.
Does the President believe that Soviet observers at the GATT will supply the Baltic states with those trade lessons learned?
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The Bush Administration's incipient concession to the Soviet Union on GATT runs directly counter to rising sentiment on Capitol Hill.
To the contrary, the Soviet economy remains as fundamentally incompatible with both the philosophy and operations of the GATT as ever.
GATT, China hoped, would not only help boost trade but also mark another step on its march back to international prominence.
GATT, this means that imports, having crossed the border, should not be subject to special taxes or other forms of discrimination.
The Millennium Round would be the eighth round of world trade talks since the WTO was set up (then called GATT) in l947.
GATT, after all, was set up after the second world war precisely to avoid a repetition of the economic follies of the 1930s.
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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GATT, which dealt with trade in goods, but also took on new agreements on services, investment, intellectual property, technical barriers to trade, sanitary measures and plant health.
At the GATT Council meeting in Geneva yesterday, the United States withdrew its objection to the immediate approval of the Soviet application for observer status in that institution.
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We broke seven years of global gridlock and successfully negotiated the new round of GATT, which has lowered average tariffs on American goods around the world by one-third.
If they obtain observer status in the GATT, the Soviets would be permitted to attend monthly GATT meetings, participate in GATT Committee business, and receive all organization documents.
Is the Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania legal under GATT?
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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 U.S. decision to accelerate Soviet access to the GATT under such circumstances is all the more bizarre because it also conflicts with the Bush Administration's own, stated policy.
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).
GATT's formation but even the most open economies retain lofty barriers: for instance, America still charges a tariff of 14.6% on imports of clothing, five times higher than its average levy.
The Center for Security Policy today challenged on economic and foreign policy grounds the Bush Administration's efforts to permit the Soviet Union to gain access to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) .
Should the Soviet Union, in due course, obtain full GATT membership which they fully expect would follow from observer status U.S. efforts to continue to withhold most-favored nation status through the Jackson-Vanik amendment could be compromised.
Should the Soviet Union, in due course, obtain full GATT membership -- which they fully expect would follow from observer status -- U.S. efforts to continue to withhold most-favored nation status through the Jackson-Vanik amendment could be compromised.
Japan's wariness over this precipitous GATT concession, like its earlier opposition to Soviet membership in the ill-conceived European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has reflected to date the most visionary Western policy approach to cosmetic Soviet economic half-steps.
U.S. insistence that the European Community agree in the present GATT round talks on a radical reduction in trade barriers particularly in the agricultural sector that threaten to prevent Central Europe from exporting its way to prosperity.
When the Bush Administration welcomed the Soviet Union into the GATT on May 16 as observers, the President said it was important that they be admitted so that they can learn the lessons of free markets and free trade.
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U.S. insistence that the European Community agree in the present GATT round talks on a radical reduction in trade barriers -- particularly in the agricultural sector -- that threaten to prevent Central Europe from exporting its way to prosperity.
As the Center reported in a 4 April 1990 analysis entitled The Bush Administration's Response to Repression: U.S. Concessions on GATT Membership, as recently as last March, the White House reiterated its view that such access should not be granted immediately.
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