The disputed provision is known as the foreign sales corporation program, and it partly exempts from tax the profits that offshore subsidiaries of American companies earn from sales of certain goods.
United States trade officials, who had asked for an extension, had already agreed with the European Union, which had brought the complaint that the United States Foreign Sales Corporation program was an export subsidy that violated global free trade rules.
The World Trade Organization agreed to set up a panel to review the United States' revised Foreign Sales Corporation program, which gives up to $4 billion in tax benefits to American companies.
And Disney and News Corporation programs are rarely seen.
[C2.] Ford Expands Services for Workers Ford and the United Automobile Workers announced one of the most ambitious social efforts ever undertaken by an American corporation, a program that will provide child care, recreation programs for teenagers and book clubs for retirees at centers nationwide.
C5 Aid for Autoworkers Families Fordd and the United Automobile Workers announced one of the most ambitious social efforts ever undertaken by an American corporation, a program that will offer child care, tutoring, recreation programs for teenagers and book clubs for retirees.
The convention corporation's program, Jacqueline Kennedy's Washington, is centered around a deal from June through August with 15 hotels.
WHAT -- Introduced in January and developed in cooperation with the Sea Turtle Survival League and the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, the program includes educational materials, nighttime walks, children's activities and, for families checking in with children 16 and under, adoption certificates for G.P.S.-tagged turtles that can be tracked online.
If that were to happen, a possibility that trade experts consider unlikely, it would bring the total to $1.4 billion in sanctions, the second-largest amount after the $4 billion annually the European Union is seeking from the United States in a dispute over the American foreign sales corporation tax program.
Staff curators and curatorial consultants responsible for corporation gallery programs consciously keep guidelines for appropriateness in mind and avoid political, sexual and religious issues.
At Creekside Books & Coffee, a bookstore and coffee house in Skaneateles, N.Y., the owner, Erika Davis, recently started offering corporations a program for buying gifts for employees and clients.
