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| | International Economics Glossary: T |
 | | Refers to the budget deficit and trade deficit of a country (in spite of the fact that, although they are related, they are far from being the same). | | | Trade that occurs between members of a preferential trading arrangement that replaces what would have been production in the importing country were it not for the PTA. | | | Trade that occurs between members of a preferential trading arrangement that replaces what would have been imports from a country outside in the PTA. |
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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/t.html
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| | Clearing Up Telecom Trade Barrier Dust |
| | This enables nontariff barriers to be limited to a minimum set of essential safety, health and environmental requirements rather than prescriptive regulatory requirements promulgated with a public good (service) or asset (operator network) in mind. | | | The TBT imposes obligations upon WTO parties as contracting parties to reduce nontariff barriers to trade by making technical requirements transparent, nondiscriminatory, and justifiable, and basing them on international standards. | | | As regulatory barriers are driven downward, what remains is an environment where the underlying relationship between carriers and equipment manufacturers will become the primary driver of market access requirements. |
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http://www.ce-mag.com/archive/1999/julyaug/panger.html
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| | ANNUAL EUROPEAN UNION REPORT ON UNITED STATES TRADE BARRIERS SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR RESOLVING OUTSTANDING TRADE DISPUTES |
| | The European Commission’s twentieth annual report on barriers to trade and investment in the US, released today, underlines the importance of the 2004 EU-US summit decision to define a new strategy to strengthen the transatlantic economic relationship to add new impetus to efforts to resolve these trade problems. | | | Given the unrivalled EU-US trade and investment relationship, further US efforts to tackle these problems would be a positive development for both economies. | | | In trade in services, exports of the EU amounted in 2003 to €115 billion while imports from the US amounted to €109 billion. |
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http://www.eurunion.org/News/press/2004/200400174.htm
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| | Is Food Safety an Intractable Trade Barrier? |
| | For instance, Codex activities have been criticized by some as not adequately taking into account U.S. trade policy, so we recently established a new Codex policy committee that is designed to raise the level of policy input into the process and provides Codex with a higher level of representation by the U.S. government. | | | That is why it is so important that the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) established the principle that countries must ensure that their sanitary and phytosanitary measures are based on science and risk assessment principles. | | | Agriculture is the leading positive contributor to the U.S. trade balance. |
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http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/speeches/1997/farmjour.htm
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| | China sees more trade barrier cases than other countries: report(03/31/05) |
| | The report introduces the trade and investment regulatory policies of each country, barriers to trade and investment, the barriers Chinese companies come across in foreign markets, China'sconcern over these barriers and its efforts to eliminate them. | | | Wang Shichun, director of MOC Bureau of Fair Trade for Import and Export, said the report aims to help companies and organizations learn the investment systems and practices of China's trading partners and understand their barriers to investment, inorder to participate in international competition on equal grounds. | | | China had 1.26 billion US dollars' worth of trade barrier cases in 2004, more than any other country, according to an annual report issued by the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on March 31. |
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http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/1/t189679.htm
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| | U.S. Soybean Exports Affected By China Trade Barrier |
| | While all countries are entitled to determine their own trade policies, ASA emphasizes that trade regulations need to be based on sound scientific principles, with fair and transparent guidelines. | | | To help ASA inform the public about the importance and impact of trade expansion, Bayer Corporation is funding activities and the distribution of educational materials for the "Soybean Trade Expansion Program (STEP). | | | That will produce a trade surplus of $18 billion to the benefit of the entire U.S. economy. |
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http://www.soygrowers.com/step/step/step2001/trade-article3.htm
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| | TST: The World Trade Organization |
| | The most blatant example of the World Trade Organization undermining US sovereignty was the recent ruling rejecting US tax breaks to US companies doing business overseas. | | | Those not completely convinced of the benefits of free trade acknowledge a "cost" of lower tariffs for which they demand compensation and fair management. | | | For us to be a responsible member of the WTO we must follow the rules, and, if we do, Congress must capitulate and raise taxes on our corporations by repealing the Foreign Sales Corporation program. |
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http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst032000.htm
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| | 3-99 World of Standards & Regulations: Using ISO 14000 as a trade barrier |
| | Members of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) committee devoted two sessions to this issue in both 1995 and 1996. | | | They particularly were worried that the cost of redundant registration schemes would thwart small and mid-size companies from entering the global marketplace. | | | The TBT committee will continue to monitor these standards to ensure that they don’t impede world trade, says Vivien Liu, an economic-affairs officer and acting director of standards activities at the WTO. |
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http://www.newsteel.com/features/ns9903zu.htm
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| | The World Trade Organisation and the developed nations yesterday came under severe criticism from the least developed countries (LDCs) at the opening session of the three-day second conference of trade ministers of the world's poorest nations. | | | Bangladesh hosts the second trade ministers' meeting of the LDCs, organised mainly to take a common stand on the WTO (World Trade Oraginsation) issues ahead of its fifth ministerial meeting in September this year at Cancun in Mexico. | | | Referring to the Special and Differential Treatment for the LDCs’, mentioned in the WTO Agreement, he said that these provisions were designed to provide the LDCs policy space to promote their development but later it was found many of the SandD provisions were not mandatory on their developed countries. |
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http://www.sdnbd.org/sdi/issues/economy/ldc_dhaka/news1.htm
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| | Is a safe environment an unnecessary trade barrier? |
| | DTI considers the proposed policy and other provisions of the bill as tantamount to setting up technical barriers to trade. | | | DTI officials argue that while the WTO does not disallow environmental measures per se, a country's trade laws should not be formulated in such a way as to create unnecessary trade barriers. | | | The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has the official role of monitoring and correcting local trade policies to make them consistent with world trade requirements. |
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http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2000_0627_01.htm
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| | EconPapers: Anarchy and Autarky: Endogenous Predation as a Barrier to Trade |
| | Trading equilibria, two-thirds of them secure, are supported only in a narrow range of security parameter values. | | | We show cases of 'immiserizing security' in which producers in large poor countries are harmed by increased security. | | | Note: This paper was previously circulated as "Trade and Security, I: Anarchy". |
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http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/bocbocoec/383.htm
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| | Trade Barriers |
| | If you feel your company’s exports or foreign bids have been, or may be adversely affected by a trade barrier or unfair business practice, you may file a complaint electronically with the Trade Compliance Center within the International Trade Administration. | | | Influence peddling - A corporate entity or country is interfering with fair trade practices at your expense. | | | Learn whether your goods or services are being unfairly burdened. |
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http://www.export.gov/tradebarriers.html
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| | NCPA - Trade Issues - A New Look At Trade Barrier Costs |
| | Surprisingly few studies exist which estimate the total costs of trade barriers. | | | In the same year, the U.S. exported nearly $500 billion in merchandise -- but would have exported $130 billion more if the rest of the world had free trade. | | | The U.S. imported over $723 billion in merchandise from non-NAFTA countries in 1996 -- but would have imported over $111 billion more if it had a policy of free trade. |
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http://www.ncpa.org/pd/trade/pd052699e.html
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| | Eldis - Trade policy |
| | This briefing paper examines ‘Benchmarking’ and other approaches such as plurilateral which have become the central focus of the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) negotiations in the WTO. | | | Dealing with the impacts of trade liberalisation in the textiles and clothing sector in India | | | Ecolabelling as an environmental policy tool and as a potential trade barrier |
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http://www.eldis.org/trade
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| | CalTrade Report - TELECOM TRADE BARRIER REPORT RELEASED |
| | The report identifies global barriers facing US consumers and businesses in the estimated $1.3 trillion dollar telecommunications services and equipment market. | | | Resolution of standards issues with China will be one of the topics for discussion at the meeting of the US-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) scheduled for the end of April," the USTR said. | | | According to the USTR, "all recent FTAs concluded by the United States contain specific prohibitions against the use of exclusionary standards in the telecommunications sector, ensure reasonable and non-discriminatory access and interconnection among network operators, and provide strong provisions on independent regulators, including powers to enforce rules in a transparent and meaningful way." |
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http://www.caltradereport.com/eWebPages/page-two-1082065798.html
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| | IndustryWeek : China Counterfeiting Tops Trade Barrier List |
| | USTR released the 2005 inventory of foreign trade barriers on March 30. | | | Separately, acting U.S. Trade Representative Peter F. Allgeier, is "deeply concerned" about the "tepid commitment" several foreign countries have made to opening up their telecommunications markets to U.S. companies. | | | April 4, 2005 -- What the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) office describes as "epidemic levels of counterfeiting and piracy in China" that "cause serious economic harm to U.S. businesses in virtually every sector of the economy" tops its list of foreign trade barriers. |
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http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=10131&SectionID=27
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| | Review on Technology Barriers Related with Intellectual Property |
| | However, as mentioned, technical standards are usually wrongfully used in international trade for self-protection. | | | These are definitely mismatches to the world trade standard. | | | They thus use these standards to limit trade and investment from aboard and to protect its own market share. |
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http://www.simmtester.com/page/news/showpubnews.asp?num=103
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| | Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation |
| | The House is expected to consider the bill later this month. | | | "It seems to me that American businesses are losing billions of dollars by not being able to trade," Rangel said. | | | Berkley, Gibbons and Porter voted to keep the embargo in place. |
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http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/07/06/news/digest.html
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| | Trade barrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most trade barriers work on the same principle: the imposition of some sort of cost on trade that raises the price of the traded products. | | | Tax-deductibility of donations - Current budget - Daily report | | | Economists generally agree that trade barriers are detrimental and decrease overall economic efficiency, this can be explained by the theory of comparative advantage. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_barriers
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| | U.S. Farmers Break Trade Barrier of China’s Great Wall |
| | Already, China has agreed that as a condition of its membership in the World Trade Organization, it would remove a variety of trade barriers against the United States in agriculture, industrial goods, and services, and to reduce its restrictions on foreign investment. | | | U.S. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) and Ranking Minority Member Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) praised the market-opening gains for American farmers that are signaled by today’s U.S. Senate approval of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. | | | With the new climate of open markets into China, U.S. agricultural trade is expected to increase by as much as $2 billion annually by 2005. |
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http://agriculture.house.gov/press/106/pr000919.html
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| | BBC NEWS Business US launches GM trade war |
| | Under WTO rules, the two parties have 60 days to consult before a trade disputes panel is set up. | | | A number of them are now seeking separate free trade agreements with the United States. | | | (The EU) has perpetuated a trade barrier which impedes the global use of a technology that could be of great benefit to farmers and consumers around the world |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3025217.stm
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| | Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: A Barrier to Trade? |
| | Lack of information concerning investment rents combined with counterintuitive effects on imports and Japanese production costs could create unwarranted perceptions of a trade barrier. | | | Although this investment raises efficiency, it limits the range of imports to less important parts such as tail pipes and it is possible that no parts are imported, despite lower foreign production costs. | | | Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: A Barrier to Trade? |
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http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/7572.html
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| | HSUS Furry Trade-Barrier Campaign |
| | Proposed Legislation Could Disrupt Responsible Organic Fur Trade | | | New Law to Boost Consumer Confidence in Legitimate Fur Trade Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000. | | | Fair Trade Commission Business Alert: How to Comply with the Fur Products Labeling Act (February 1999) |
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http://www.furcommission.com/resource/pressDC.htm
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| | $175 Billion Dollar Barrier to Trade |
| | is a Trade Policy Analyst in the Center for International Trade and Economics. | | | President Bush should move forward with his free trade agenda by vetoing this bill. | | | If the President signs this bill, a complaint to the World Trade Organization is likely as well as an arms race of subsidies and tariffs between the EU and the United States. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/TradeandForeignAid/WM87.cfm
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| | RCW 43.23.280: Trade barrier matching fund program. |
| | Further, the world trade organization highlighted the need for "a fair and level playing field." The legislature finds that both large and small commodity groups need adequate resources to address trade barrier issues. | | | The purpose of the program is to allow the department of agriculture and the agricultural industry to combine funds in order to address trade barriers issues impacting the agricultural industry. | | | (1) The legislature finds that trade barriers have become an increasingly important issue in the agricultural arena. |
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http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=43.23.280
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| | Mr. Bush, Tear Down This Trade Barrier - How we could really help Ukraine. By Peter Savodnik |
| | The national interest—fostering a democratic trading partner in Ukraine—must override the more parochial concerns of a particular congressional district or state. | | | There are political interests: U.S. lawmakers like holding on to the trade provision because it gives them leverage when haggling with Ukraine or other former Soviet governments. | | | Naturally, members of Congress, who live in perpetual fear of the next election despite the near certainty that they'll be re-elected, must defend their turf—against NAFTA or military-base closings or shady trading practices in the former Soviet Union. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2115995
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| | EU food safety structure a barrier to trade? |
| | If food products can be tested, certified and traced using common methods in both Europe and Asia, then European consumers and regulators will have very few problems with Asian food, they add. | | | Over four years, a series of annual workshops will address trade barrier issues. | | | “The network has identified three research topics linked to ensuring liberal trade: the impact of food on health, the traceability of food along the whole food chain, and methods of detecting contaminants,” say the Project partners. |
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http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=58754
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| | Trade Compliance Center - Making America's Trade Agreements Work for You! |
| | The Trade Compliance Center helps American exporters overcome foreign trade barriers and works to ensure that foreign countries comply with their commitments to the United States. | | | Central American Free Trade Agreement To Be Implemented on Rolling Basis | | | Trade Compliance Center - Making America's Trade Agreements Work for You! |
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http://www.tcc.mac.doc.gov
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| | SitNews - Trade Barrier Resolved for Alaska Log Exports |
| | Eliminating trade barriers, such as the log fumigation requirements, is good for Alaska, noted the governor. | | | More than 400 people attended the investment conference - 250 Chinese buyers, importers, and officials and 150 foreign guests, including representatives from three of Alaska's major log exporters. | | | It was a privilege to work alongside them on this issue and now to see success." The Division of Agriculture and the state's trade office worked closely with the timber industry to resolve the log fumigation issue. |
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http://www.sitnews.us/0205news/022805/022805_log_exports.html
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| | trade barrier |
| | any regulation or policy that restricts international trade, esp. tariffs, quotas, etc. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipd/A0699142.html
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