Outlined Monday by Gore economic policy adviser Laura Tyson, the organization would provide nations with a permanent forum similar to the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the International Labor Organization (ILO) to tackle cross-border disputes that affect the health of forests, oceans and endangered species.
Last week the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, created by the U.S. Congress and made up of 11 American economists and other experts, released its reform recommendations for the IMF, the World Bank, the Asian, Latin American and African development banks, the World Trade Organization and the Bank for International Settlements.
The WTO is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations, according to its Web site.
Now consider the potential size of a first-world economy in much of China--with sufficient openness and rule of law--plus the likely international links as its membership in the World Trade Organization kicks in.
It also wins the Chinese new friends--and their votes it needs in international forums like the United Nations and World Trade Organization as it takes an ever larger role on the world stage.
China gained entry to the World Trade Organization, paving the way for tremendous expansion in international trade.
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Washington also pledges to support Russia's increased participation in major international economic organizations like the World Trade Organization and the Group of Seven industrialized nations.
If certain proposals for security and censorship are enshrined in a treaty, it makes it more difficult to attack those prohibitions through other international foras, like the World Trade Organization or through the Convention on Human Rights.
And according to the International Air Transport Association, an airline trade organization, there were 2.84 billion commercial passengers last year, which would roughly mean your average odds of dying on a commercial flight were roughly one in 7.6 million in 2011.
Various negotiations through GATT and more recently the World Trade Organization have greatly liberalized the international marketplace.
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O'Hare airport is the sixth busiest passenger airport in the world, according to the latest data available from Airport Council International, a trade organization representing airports.
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It is quite another thing when one year later Loria and Co. are shipping Reyes and everyone else they signed last winter across international borders in some sort of twisted joke that even the World Trade Organization surely will condemn in coming days.
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Around 90% of world trade is currently carried by the shipping industry, according to the International Maritime Organization.
As Russia seeks to join the World Trade Organization, it may be forced to step in line with international copyright licensing and stamp out sites like AllofMP3.
Russia, recall, is now a full-fledged member of the World Trade Organization, proof that it is broadly comfortable with the liberal international economic order, an order which the Soviet Union fought tooth and nail until it collapsed.
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Although this is meant to be a global initiative, so far SIFMA, the U.S. securities industry trade organization, has not signed up any international partners among regulators or trade associations.
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Reddy is lobbying the Indian government to adopt and enforce the international drug-patent regime, something Delhi has promised to do by 2005 under a World Trade Organization agreement.
To begin with, the U.S. is a longtime member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a 140-member group that tries to promote international trade, reduces trade barriers, and handles trade disputes between member countries.
But such efforts can fail to uncover some dangers: At least two garment factories at Rana Plaza had passed international labor and safety standard audits under a European trade organization which addressed specific safety concerns at the factories but didn't assess the stability of the building that housed them.
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And the country's quest to assume its place among world powers -- including its aspirations to join the World Trade Organization and to recover Taiwan -- means that its leaders will need to demonstrate greater sensitivity to international political and social sensibilities.
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