Search results for: “preferential treatment”

  • Semi-conductor

    Semi-conductor in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, semi-conductor is: a dispute with the United States and Japan brought before the GATT Council by the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. The case made by the EEC stemmed from an arrangement made between the United States and Japan […]

  • New International Economic Order

    New International Economic Order in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, new international economic order is: NIEO. The entries on trade policy are here. A campaign launched in the early 1970s by developing countries to bring about radical changes in the international economic order. The […]

  • New International Economic Order

    New International Economic Order in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, new international economic order is: NIEO. The entries on trade policy are here. A campaign launched in the early 1970s by developing countries to bring about radical changes in the international economic order. The […]

  • Non-discrimination

    Non-discrimination in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, non-discrimination is: a fundamental concept in the multilateral trade framework. The entries on trade policy are here. A country may not discriminate among foreign supplier countries, and it may not apply adverse discriminatory […]

  • Non-discrimination

    Non-discrimination in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, non-discrimination is: a fundamental concept in the multilateral trade framework. The entries on trade policy are here. A country may not discriminate among foreign supplier countries, and it may not apply adverse discriminatory […]

  • Open Regionalism

    Open regionalism in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, open regionalism is: a term which implies that any regional arrangement should be outward-looking and lowering barriers to economies outside the arrangement as well as those within it. For some, open regionalism means that full […]

  • Historical Preferences

    Historical preferences in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, historical preferences is: in the WTO framework this refers to benefits under preferential trade arrangements in existence before the GATT entered into force on 1 January 1948. Such arrangements were allowed to continue even […]

  • Substantially-all-trade Criterion

    Substantially-all-trade criterion in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, substantially-all-trade criterion is: Article XXIV of the GATT sets out the conditions under which customs unions and free-trade areas may be regarded as consistent with the Agreement. The entries on trade policy are […]

  • Substantially-all-trade Criterion

    Substantially-all-trade criterion in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, substantially-all-trade criterion is: Article XXIV of the GATT sets out the conditions under which customs unions and free-trade areas may be regarded as consistent with the Agreement. The entries on trade policy are […]

  • National Champions

    National champions in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, national champions is: companies designated in some countries to act as promoters of new technologies or new processes from whom other companies will be able to learn. The entries on trade policy in the Encyclopedia are here. Often, […]

  • Most-favoured-nation Tariff

    Most-favoured-nation tariff in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, most-favoured-nation tariff is: MFN tariff. The tariff applied by WTO members to goods from other WTO members with which they have not concluded a preferential trade arrangement. The entries on trade policy are here. In the […]

  • Most-favoured-nation Tariff

    Most-favoured-nation tariff in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, most-favoured-nation tariff is: MFN tariff. The tariff applied by WTO members to goods from other WTO members with which they have not concluded a preferential trade arrangement. The entries on trade policy are here. In the […]

  • Last Substantial Transformation

    Last Substantial Transformation

    Last substantial transformation in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, last substantial transformation is: a concept used in the administration of rules of origin to decide whether a good will receive preferential tariff treatment. The entries on trade policy are here. It means that the […]

  • Charter Of Economic Rights And Duties Of States

    Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, charter of economic rights and duties of states is: an initiative launched at UNCTAD III (1972) ostensibly aimed at protecting the economic rights of all countries, but really promoting a change in what […]

  • Charter Of Economic Rights And Duties Of States

    Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, charter of economic rights and duties of states is: an initiative launched at UNCTAD III (1972) ostensibly aimed at protecting the economic rights of all countries, but really promoting a change in what […]