Analysis of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Signed at Geneva, October 30, 1947

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 206 páginas

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Página 199 - Provided that the restrictions are so applied as to avoid unnecessary damage to the commercial or economic interests of any other contracting party and not to prevent unreasonably the importation of any description of goods in minimum commercial quantities the exclusion of which would impair regular channels of trade...
Página 198 - The contracting parties also recognize the need for reducing the number and diversity of such fees and charges, for minimizing the incidence and complexity of import and export formalities, and for decreasing and simplifying import and export documentation requirements.
Página 1 - Sweden, Switzerland, the Union of South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
Página 199 - Article shall not exceed those necessary: (i) to forestall the imminent threat of, or to stop, a serious decline in its monetary reserves, or (ii) in the case of a contracting party with very low monetary reserves, to achieve a reasonable rate of increase in its reserves.
Página 201 - XVIII, shall accept the determination of the Fund as to what constitutes a serious decline in the contracting party's monetary reserves, a very low level of its monetary reserves or a reasonable rate of increase in its monetary reserves, and as to the financial aspects of other matters covered in consultation in such cases.
Página 197 - Agreement, if such alteration would have the effect of increasing generally the amounts of duty payable. 5. The bases and methods for determining the value of products subject to duties or other charges or restrictions based upon or regulated in any manner by value should be stable and should be given sufficient publicity to enable traders to estimate, with a reasonable degree of certainty, the value for customs purposes.
Página 1 - Provisions dealing among other things with barriers to trade other than tariffs. Each country applying the Agreement undertakes to grant to the other parties to the Agreement the reductions or bindings of tariff treatment specified in the Schedules of tariff concessions, and to observe the rules laid down in the General Provisions in its commercial relations with them. The Schedules of tariff concessions apply to products accounting for approximately two-thirds of the import trade of the negotiating...
Página 203 - ... if made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption; and measures applied under approved intergovernmental commodity agreements.
Página 154 - ... Japan and the League on policies of peace, and especially as regards the fundamental principles to be followed in the establishment of a durable peace in the Far East. The Japanese Government, believing that, in these circumstances, there remains no room for further co-operation...
Página 203 - ... to such traffic in other goods and materials as is carried on directly or indirectly for the purpose of supplying a military establishment...