Review of International Trade Negotiations Affecting U.S. Agricultural Policy Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT): Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First and Second Sessions, December 10, 1991, January 9, February 25, and March 31, 1992U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 805 pages |
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Page 663 - Administration is committed to achieving a successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Page 287 - Members shall take such reasonable measures as may be available to them...
Page 279 - 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...
Page 276 - ... in the sale of the commodity for export at a price lower than the comparable price charged for the like commodity to buyers in the domestic market...
Page 281 - Members may introduce or maintain sanitary or phytosanitary measures which result in a higher level of sanitary or phytosanitary protection than would be achieved by measures based on the relevant international standards, guidelines or recommendations...
Page 280 - Members shall ensure that any sanitary or phytosanitary measure is applied only to the extent necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health, is based on scientific principles and is not maintained without sufficient scientific evidence, except as provided for in paragraph 7 of Article 5.
Page 280 - Members have the right to take sanitary and phytosanitary measures necessary for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health, provided that such measures are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement.
Page 261 - The amount of such payments in any given year shall not be related to, or based on, the prices, domestic or international, applying to any production undertaken in any year after...
Page 244 - This Agreement shall be deposited with the Director-General to the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the GATT, who shall promptly furnish to each Party...
Page 424 - I thank you for the opportunity to be here. [The prepared statement of Mr.