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.
As part of its WTO agreement, China now circulates draft laws and regulations for 30 days to collect comments.
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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).
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.
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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If there is no agreement, what will the WTO's members leave on the table?
The ASEAN free-trade agreement itself is only legal under WTO rules because its members are developing countries entitled to special treatment.
"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.
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.
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.
Because the WTO operates by consensus, the developing countries knew their agreement was vital for a new round to be launched.
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.
" 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.
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.
America's Mr Zoellick aims to portray the American concession as no more than an agreement to clarify existing rules, but that may not be how other WTO members see it or, more importantly, the American Congress.
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