The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Uruguay Round Final Act Should Produce Overall U.S. Economic Gains : Report to the Congress, Volumen2The Office, 1994 |
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According to USTR advisory committees agricultural antidumping laws Areas Addressed Areas Receiving Greater benefits bilateral billion Cairns Group Changes to Trade code coverage commitments competition compulsory licensing concerns contracting parties countervailing duties Creation of WTO developing countries disciplines Dispute Settlement Procedures dumping economic effect eliminate environmental established export subsidies foreign GATT members implementation imports increase Institutional Changes international trade investment measures member countries multilateral trading national treatment nonactionable panel patent percent procurement protection provisions Punta del Este Receiving Greater Coverage reduce restrictions safeguard sector signatories specific Strengthened Dispute Settlement subsidies agreement tariff tariff rates tariff reductions telecommunications textile and apparel Tokyo Round Trade Rules TRIMS TRIPS agreement U.S. exports U.S. government U.S. industry U.S. interests U.S. Negotiating Objectives U.S. steel U.S. Trade Representative unilateral United Uruguay Round agreement USTR officials World Trade Organization WTO and Strengthened WTO dispute settlement WTO members
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Página 2 - GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GDP gross domestic product GNP gross national product...
Página 36 - If any contracting party should consider that any benefit accruing to it directly or indirectly under this Agreement is being nullified or impaired or that the attainment of any objective of the Agreement is being impeded...
Página 161 - Subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination between countries where the same conditions prevail, or a disguised restriction on international trade, nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures: (a) necessary to protect public morals; (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health...
Página 84 - Any sign, or any combination of signs, capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one undertaking from those of other undertakings, shall be capable of constituting a trademark.
Página 83 - Article, patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the place of invention, the field of technology and whether products are imported or locally produced.
Página 162 - ... the optimal use of the world's resources in accordance with the objective of sustainable development, seeking both to protect and preserve the environment and to enhance the means for doing so in a manner consistent with their respective needs and concerns at different levels of economic development...
Página 37 - Annex 2 provides that when Members seek the redress of a violation of obligations or other nullification or impairment of benefits under the covered agreements or an impediment to the attainment of any objective of the covered agreements, they shall have recourse to, and abide by, the rules and procedures of the Understanding.
Página 116 - Following an examination of the operation of GATT Articles related to the trade restrictive and distorting effects of investment measures , negotiations should elaborate, as appropriate, further provisions that may be necessary to avoid such adverse effects on trade.
Página 159 - Without prejudice to paragraph 2 of Article 3, when establishing or maintaining sanitary or phytosanitary measures to achieve the appropriate level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection, Members shall ensure that such measures are not more trade-restrictive than required to achieve their appropriate level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection, taking into account technical and economic feasibility.
Página 161 - Members may exclude from patentability inventions, the prevention within their territory of the commercial exploitation of which is necessary to protect ordre public or morality, including to protect human, animal or plant life or health or to avoid serious prejudice to the environment, provided that such exclusion is not made merely because the exploitation is prohibited by their law.