Sentence examples for gatt agreement from inspiring English sources

And in 1994, agriculture was included in global trade rules for the first time: the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Agreement on Agriculture pledged countries to reduce tariffs, export subsidies and domestic agricultural support.

Describing it as an "invasion of India by decadent western cultures and a direct fall-out of our signing the GATT agreement," it urged the Prime Minister "not to follow Bill Clinton's immoral approach to sexual perversions in the US" and to immediately cancel the permission to hold the Conference [ 85].

The GATT agreements committed economies to reduce tariffs on imports, and in effect, there was price pressure to be competitive to keep their market share at home, to become more efficient.

BAT: British American Tobacco B&WW: Brown and Williamson; GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; KT&G: Korean Tomorrow & Global; JTI: Japan Tobacco International PMI Philip Morris International TTCtransnationalional tobacco company; USTR: United States Trade Representative.

The Bretton Woods agreement, Gatt and the establishment of the IMF and World Bank combined to give it institutional shape and expression.

This partnership is significant since countries implementing Codex standards are presumed to be acting consistently with GATT and the SPS Agreement [ 96, 97].

The Uruguay Round negotiated the most ambitious set of trade-liberalization agreements in GATT's history.

Member states whose SPS measures conform to international standards are deemed to be acting consistently with both the SPS Agreement itself, and GATT Article XX(b).

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of tariff duties among the contracting nations.

A major impetus to the global growth of trade was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a series of trade agreements adopted in 1948.

AT A birthday party in Geneva, revellers are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and a local television crew is making a documentary about the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the GATT's successor.