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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Administration agricultural negotiations Ambassador Katz analysis areas Arthur Dunkel average barriers base period cents Chairman commodities competition concerns CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracting parties cost CROWDER current access dairy farmers dairy products developing countries dispute settlement domestic support draft text Dunkel draft Dunkel proposal Dunkel text economic European Community export subsidies Farmers Union GATT agreement GATT negotiations growers Hawaiian Sugar Planters hearing House Agriculture Committee Huckaby impact implementation import quotas income increase internal support issue January 9 loan rate market access million minimum access MTN.TNC/W/FA National National Farmers Union payments peanuts phytosanitary measures President price support protection questions reduction commitments safeguard sanitary and phytosanitary schedules Section 22 soybean specific support price tariff equivalents Thank trade negotiations U.S. agriculture U.S. Congress U.S. cotton U.S. dairy U.S. producers U.S. Trade Representative United Uruguay Round agreement USDA wheat world market world price
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Page 277 - Members shall take such reasonable measures as may be available to them...
Page 269 - 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 266 - ... 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 280 - Members shall play a full part, within the limits of their resources, in the relevant international organizations and their subsidiary bodies, in particular the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the International Office of Epizootics, and the international and regional organizations operating within the framework of the International Plant Protection Convention...
Page 271 - 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 275 - In a dispute under this Agreement involving scientific or technical issues, a panel should seek advice from experts chosen by the panel in consultation with the parties to the dispute. To this end, the panel may, when it deems it appropriate, establish an advisory technical experts group, or consult the relevant international organizations, at the request of either party to the dispute or on its own initiative.
Page 270 - 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 270 - 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 512 - The provision of compensation should be resorted to only if the immediate withdrawal of the measure is impracticable and as a temporary measure pending the withdrawal of the measure which is inconsistent with a covered agreement.
Page 258 - This Agreement shall be deposited with the Director-General to the CONTRACTING PARTIES to the GATT, who shall promptly furnish to each Party...