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) .
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 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).
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) .
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.
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.