"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
President Mikhail Gorbachev has no doubt been impressed by China's success in carrying out domestic economic liberalization and foreign trade reforms as well as establishing workable terms of agreement with the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) .
These statements can be interpreted as saying: thanks in advance for providing us with observer and eventual membership status in the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank as well as expanded access to Western credits (particularly the taxpayer guaranteed variety).
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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Key members of Congress, notably Senators Riegle, Dixon, D'Amato and others, are sponsoring S.276, a resolution urging the Administration to postpone action on Soviet GATT observer status and other elements of U.S.-Soviet trade ties as long as Soviet intimidation and use of economic force in the Baltics continues.
The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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