ULA did not compete for the GPS launch contract, citing accounting issues, implications of trade sanctions limiting imports of its rockets' Russian-made engines and, according to a former ULA vice-president, SpaceX's cut-rate pricing.
Understanding the nature and implications of trade-offs within sustainability assessment is essential to improving practice.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created in 2000, is tasked with reporting on the national security implications of trade ties with China.
These indicators can serve various purposes including monitoring the material basis of national economies and related environmental pressures, assessment of the material and resource productivity and monitoring the implications of trade and globalisation.
To document the implications of trade policies on agricultural performance, we explore here various outcomes, including the volume of exports and the share of Argentine agricultural production on world production, an index of agricultural production, and the performance of yields in Argentine agriculture (vis-á-vis the US).
While President Obama, much like Alden, argues that critics are "making stuff up" about the potential negative implications of "trade" agreements, the WTO recently ruled that popular U.S. country-of-origin meat labeling (COOL) policy is in violation of the Technical Barriers to Trade agreement of the WTO, even though it is non-discriminatory.
The WTO highlights two revenue implications of trade liberalization.
Negotiators should understand the implications of trade for all sectors of the economy and identify opportunities to improve the terms of negotiation for their countries.
With regards to GATS, overviews by Chanda and Smith referred to earlier consider the implications of trade in health services, both positive and negative, for key health policy goals including equity, efficiency, quality and access [ 15, 16].
To avoid these, it is important to explicitly consider international trade implications of national trade policies.
