General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Issues 161-183U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 |
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... export in order to earn the foreign currency to pay for their imports . This inescapable fact of the mutual need of ... exports have ceased . Our reserve stocks are gone 3.
... export in order to earn the foreign currency to pay for their imports . This inescapable fact of the mutual need of ... exports have ceased . Our reserve stocks are gone 3.
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... export 19 percent of our motor trucks and busses , 16 percent of our diesel engines , 14 percent of our agricultural machinery and equipment , and 11 percent of our machine tools . The products of an estimated 60 million acres of ...
... export 19 percent of our motor trucks and busses , 16 percent of our diesel engines , 14 percent of our agricultural machinery and equipment , and 11 percent of our machine tools . The products of an estimated 60 million acres of ...
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... export more than half of our wheat , rice , and cotton . These exports of farm products are an impor- tant factor in maintaining farm price levels and alleviating the problem of surplus agricultural commodities . Since World War II they ...
... export more than half of our wheat , rice , and cotton . These exports of farm products are an impor- tant factor in maintaining farm price levels and alleviating the problem of surplus agricultural commodities . Since World War II they ...
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... exports to gross national product is 3 to 4 times as great as for the United States . For smaller ad- vanced nations , such as Belgium , the Netherlands , Sweden , and Switzerland , it is 5 to 9 times as great . For many of the ...
... exports to gross national product is 3 to 4 times as great as for the United States . For smaller ad- vanced nations , such as Belgium , the Netherlands , Sweden , and Switzerland , it is 5 to 9 times as great . For many of the ...
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... exports are grains and grain products , meat and meat products , cheese , and butter . Burma and Thailand export rice to India , Indonesia , the Philippines , Ceylon , Malaya , and Japan . Cuba supplies sugar to the United States ...
... exports are grains and grain products , meat and meat products , cheese , and butter . Burma and Thailand export rice to India , Indonesia , the Philippines , Ceylon , Malaya , and Japan . Cuba supplies sugar to the United States ...
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acid Agreement on Tariffs Article XXVIII Brazil centum chief value commercial Committee for Reciprocity Committee on Trade commodity composed wholly consultation cont containing contracting parties recognize contracting party applying countervailing duty countries customs union Description of Products economic effect electric European Economic Community exchange export fabrics finished or unfinished foregoing foreign Free Free glass Government Havana Charter inch industry initially negotiated Interdepartmental Committee interest International Monetary Fund leather machinery machines manganese material of chief measure ment metal modify or withdraw molybdenum most-favoured-nation notice OECD paper partly manufactured percent plates Policy pound preparations provisions of Article provisions of paragraph quota Reciprocity Information regulations renegotiations request screen quotas specially provided sub-paragraph substantial Surinam synthetic textile Tariff Act Tariff Commission tariff concessions Tariff Number Tariffs and Trade territory thereof tion tracting party Trade Agreements Treaty tubes U.S. Tariff Commission value of cotton vegetable fiber wholly or partly
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Page 51 - Agreement shall be construed to prevent the adoption or enforcement by any contracting party of measures: [....] (b) necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; [....] (g) relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources if such measures are made effective in conjunction with restrictions on domestic production or consumption.
Page 19 - ... or other measures, shall be instituted or maintained by any contracting party on the importation of any product of the territory of any other contracting party...
Page 8 - ... the comparable price, in the ordinary course of trade, for the like product when destined for consumption in the exporting country...
Page 18 - The contracting parties recognize that dumping, by which products of one country are introduced into the commerce of another country at less than the normal value of the products, is to be condemned if it causes or threatens material injury to an established industry in the territory of a contracting party or materially retards the establishment of a domestic industry.
Page 14 - The products of the territory of any contracting party imported into the territory cf any other contracting party shall not be subject, directly or indirectly, to internal taxes or other internal charges of any kind in excess of those applied, directly or indirectly, to like domestic products.
Page 2 - III in respect of the like domestic product or in respect of an article from which the imported product has been manufactured or produced in whole or in part...
Page 34 - ... conditions as to cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers in that territory of like or directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury, to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or to withdraw or modify the concession.
Page 61 - applicant contracting party") may, by negotia-tion and agreement with any contracting party with which such concession was initially negotiated and with any other contracting party determined by the CONTRACTING PARTIES to have a principal supplying interest...
Page 16 - ... (a) to forestall the threat of, or to stop, a serious decline in its monetary reserves, or "(b) in the case of a contracting party with inadequate monetary reserves, to achieve a reasonable rate of increase in its reserves. "Due regard shall be paid in either case to any special factors which may be affecting the...