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… Government practices include: (1) the combination of a significant trade barrier (a 20 percent tariff and a high, largely ad valorem , excise tax) and an unreasonable, absolute investment … that Japan will take to improve our firms' access. The Government of Japan will suspend the tariff, reducing it to zero. It also will end the discriminatory deferral of excise tax payment …
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… rent control creates a disincentive to move to find work. Japan (no unemployment problem) Tariff and non-tariff barriers insulate the manufactured goods sector and agricultural sector against foreign … rent control creates a disincentive to move to find work. Japan (no unemployment problem) Tariff and non-tariff barriers insulate the manufactured goods sector and agricultural sector …
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… FTA Act) (19 U.S.C. 2112 note) confers authority upon the President to proclaim changes in tariff treatment which the President determines are required or appropriate to carry out the … submitted to the Congress on April 29, 1985. I have determined that the modifications to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202) set forth in Annexes I, VIII, IX, … and, if the product of a least developed developing country (LDDC), are eligible for full tariff reductions pursuant to certain trade agreements without staging. Previously, pursuant to …
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… the United States effective soon after January 1, 1988 , but will then immediately suspend the tariff increases so long as U.S. meat exports to the European Community continue uninterrupted. …
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… be under the terms and conditions specified in item 951.01 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States -- in addition to the quota quantity specified for such peanuts in item 951.00 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States, will not render or tend to render ineffective, or … Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim: that item 951.01 of part 3 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States, as added by Proclamation No. 4807, is hereby amended by …
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… Order No. 11888, of November 24, 1975, as amended, and to make conforming modifications to the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) (19 U.S.C. 1202), it is hereby ordered as follows: …
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… principles. Subsequent negotiations, conducted under the aegis of the GATT, have reduced the tariff barriers of industrial countries to a fraction of what they were 40 years ago. World trade … to this, the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations focused to a great extent on non-tariff barriers such as subsidies, restrictive government procurement practices, trade distorting …
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… … Proclamation 4991 -- Suspension of the Application of Column 1 Rates of Duty of the Tariff Schedules of the United States to the Products of Poland October 27, 1982 By the President … (hereinafter referred to as ``the Trade Act''), the President entered into, and proclaimed tariff rates under, trade agreements with the Polish People's Republic; Whereas, (3) I have … General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to extend the rates of duty provided in column 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) to products of Poland, whether imported directly or …
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… and on net has probably been our most heavily protected major domestic industry. The tariff rate on textile and apparel imports averages about 20 percent, versus a 3 percent average tariff rate on all imports. Quantitative restrictions on textile and apparel exports agreed to by … 10.5 million jobs gained economy wide since November 1982. Compares with an inflexible tariff and quota ridden E.C. which until very recently had not gained one net job in the same …
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… in R& D has declined 25% in last 15 years). • Make strong effort (not rhetoric) to reduce non-tariff barriers to US exports (NT'III !aplcmentation). Must eliminate unfair practices overseas … from Tokyo Round (MTN) reduces overall tariffs by approximately 1/3; also decreases non-tariff measures through establishment of intern ational codes (this was principal focus of Tokyo … open to international compe tit i on ) ; but enforcement may be difficult. - -Foreign n o n-tariff barriers are still biggest problem fo r US businessmen . In addition to "buy national" l …
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