The conclusion of the WTO Agreement will improve market access and reinforce the multilateral trade system.
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Trade policies and practices that are inconsistent with such international rules as the WTO Agreement should be abolished.
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Indeed the WTO agreement opens sectors of the Chinese market to a degree that can easily have political repercussions.
In the past few years, China has become remarkably adept at adhering to the letter of the WTO agreement, while flagrantly violating its spirit.
If they faithfully implement the WTO agreement, and respect trade rulings that may go against them, China runs the risk of even greater social upheaval.
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The extension of permanent normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Republic of Moldova will permit the United States to avail itself of all rights under the WTO Agreement with respect to the Republic of Moldova.
The extension of permanent normal trade relations treatment to the products of the Russian Federation will permit the United States to avail itself of all rights under the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (the "WTO Agreement") with respect to the Russian Federation.
Nearly 38 percent (45 of 119) of the WTO cases in which U.S. policies have been challenged concern U.S. violations of the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
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Just as U.S. antidumping administration has so frequently run afoul of the U.S. law, it has also been found on dozens of occasions to violate U.S. obligations under the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
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This strategic momentum has carried into 2012, as the recent WTO agreement with China, highlighting IMAX, should enhance programming flexibility in our biggest international market, and we have also made early progress toward igniting network growth in Latin America and Europe.
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Under the WTO Antidumping Agreement (ADA), governments are permitted to have antidumping laws and to apply antidumping duties to redress dumping that is found to be a cause of material injury to the domestic industry producing the same or similar products.
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"The China-WTO agreement is good for the United States, " effused Clinton.
In the circumstances that have unfolded since the White House reached its WTO agreement with China, the answer to this question has to be no.
Unhappy about the White House trade deal to admit China to the WTO--an agreement that labor is now better armed to fight in Congress--the unions had pressed Clinton to push their case on labor rules in Seattle.
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The US argues its tariffs are in line with the WTO's Safeguard Agreement, which allows countries to restrict imports temporarily if they threaten "serious injury" to a specific industry.
Negotiating States underlined that the draft Agreement respects fundamental rights and freedoms and does not go against the provisions of World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
If persuading the 15 members of the EU is going to be difficult, and winning agreement among all 147 members of the WTO still harder, then persuading the 535 members of Congress to keep their hands off a trade bill will be all but impossible.
Numerical targets lead to managed trade, which flies in the face of the free market system, most notably by deviating from the principles of economic efficiency and well-being embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement.
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He champions unionized labor and working families and would immediately cancel U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that they push American jobs overseas.
As part of its WTO accession agreement in 2001, China agreed to allow the United States and other WTO members to treat it differently indeed, discriminatorily on several matters for a number of years after it joined the WTO.
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If there is no agreement, what will the WTO's members leave on the table?
"This request is designed to protect our rights in the WTO, fully in line with the procedural agreement reached with the US in September, " European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said.
The Doha round of talks at the WTO was intended to favour poorer nations but the likelihood of securing a hoped-for agreement by the end of the year look very slim.
At the Hong Kong meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was meeting with Asian finance officials partly on the WTO pact, which is to replace a 1995 agreement that Washington declined to sign for what it saw as a lack of sufficient concessions from other countries.
Over the last three years, the United States and Russia have been able to make significant progress on a wide range of issues, including the New START Treaty, the 1, 2, 3 Agreement, the work we've done on Russia's accession to the WTO, and setting up a presidential process whereby issues of trade and commerce, science, technology are all discussed at a much more intensive level.
Because the WTO operates by consensus, the developing countries knew their agreement was vital for a new round to be launched.
The ASEAN free-trade agreement itself is only legal under WTO rules because its members are developing countries entitled to special treatment.
" The likelihood, he told Asiaweek, is that in coming months Malaysia, like many of its neighbors, will advance concessions for the WTO deal, and "we are now very optimistic that an agreement will be reached in December.
In its WTO accession agreement, China also committed to simplify and streamline the approval process for wireless communications equipment into a single process but has not yet done so.
Those who urge that a global World Trade Organization agreement is preferable to a series of bilateral and multilateral pacts ignore the WTO's very limited progress towards creating global free trade.
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