Free trade agreements include deeper provisions that go beyond trade barriers and more partners can significantly reduce the cost of trade, which, in turn, helps boost trade flows.
In 1994 a separate agreement addressing the United States' concerns over the deep sea-bed provisions failed to produce our ratification.
Two provisions buried deep in the nearly 700-page Medicare drug law may limit the discounts that insurers and pharmacy benefit managers can get from drug makers -- and, therefore, how far the new drug benefit for the elderly will stretch, executives say.
In recent weeks, the deepest divide centered on provisions that spelled out how regulators would enforce the Volcker Rule.
The BBC has warned the income squeeze it faces will require deep cuts in the provision of services.
Federal judges across the country are upset after learning that although they did not receive a raise this year, a provision buried deep in the domestic security bill could allow hefty bonuses for some court administrators who work for them.
The current parliament has used dubious pretexts to extend its term three times, all while failing to address deep crises in the provision of basic public services, from electricity to waste disposal.
The multivariable model included herd size, access to pasture, and provision of deep bedding, and explained 50% of the variation in clinical lameness.
Conservatives dug deep and found a provision buried in the law that purports that only states and not the federal government can set up insurance exchanges.
If that really was Congress's intent, Bagley observes, the lawmakers would have made the threat explicit, not buried it deep within an obscure provision of a 900-page law.
