While there is general agreement China is acting inappropriately, there was general agreement that by and large NAFTA was a good partnership between these three countries.
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"I think there's general agreement," Feinstein told CNN on Monday.
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Again, I think we're in general agreement here with Braun.
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Is there a general agreement, or are there some holdouts?
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There's general agreement that it needs to be done this week.
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There is general agreement that that's where we ought to focus.
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"She is in general agreement with their principles," the spokesman said.
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But the risk pools were always an accepted area of general agreement.
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Germans seem in general agreement that people are entitled to radical opinions.
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Kurdish towns must, by general agreement, have co-mayors, one man, one woman.
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However, there was general agreement that more data is needed before such a move.
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There is general agreement among the three nations that Nafta needs to be modernized.
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The U.S. created rules for trade in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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There's a general agreement in American society and the press that they're off-limits.
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That had been a major problem under the former General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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But their head Ernst Gerlach said there was now general agreement to back the board.
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Only Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows and Tuesday Group co-chair Tom MacArthur have a general agreement.
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On the Fed issue, Cohn expressed general agreement with the path that the central bank is taking.
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There is general agreement that it needs further integration, but disagreement about how to go about it.
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services, or GATS, is the WTO agreement governing trade in services.
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There is general agreement that it started between 1945 and 1948, and ended between 21980 and 22005.
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Yes, there's been general agreement among Democrats in Congress to resist the Trump agenda at all costs.
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He'll try to get general agreement on some complex nonproliferation issues when you're alone, without your experts.
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Finally, there's a general agreement that the particular facts here are just tougher for Trump to defend.
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" "There was a general agreement from all sides that it was important to get our work done.
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"There's a general agreement that we cannot still let a failed program stay in place," said Sen.
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SUPERLATIVES surrounded the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) when it was signed on October 30th 1947.
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There is general agreement that we need more public investment in infrastructure and private investment to spur growth.
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What was once a practical problem, with general agreement on the facts, has become a matter of identity.
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There is general agreement among pollsters and political observers that O'Rourke is trailing by mid-high single digits.
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The WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade does allow an exemption from its rules for national security reasons.
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There's general agreement that we're likely going to do this all over again when the next spending bill expires.
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As a precondition to any further progress, the EU insists on a general agreement, superior to all bilateral treaties.
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President Truman joined with 22 other nations to create the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947.
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That would breach Article 3 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which is policed by the WTO.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was, by general agreement, one of the great French prose writers of the early 20th century.
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There is general agreement this shouldn't spill into the 85033 election year, which commences in less than 100 days.
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North Korea is one of the few current areas of general agreement between the White House and the Kremlin.
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Despite the turbulence in Washington, here in medicine there is general agreement that we're moving in the right direction.
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There was general agreement with the statement that the weather is getting weirder, and some connected it to climate change.
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The World Trade Organization bent less readily to American will than the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, its predecessor.
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There is general agreement that Britain's exit from the European Union will drag on growth, but the magnitude remains unclear.
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The Democratic candidates are in general agreement on at least two proposals: universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
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"We have make the maximum effort to have a general agreement (on withdrawal) on the table in October," Pellegrini said.
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The modern era of multilateral trade negotiation was ushered in by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947.
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Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Monday there was "a general agreement" among euro zone finance ministers about the ECB approach.
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There is general agreement that the ACA should be repealed but people are fearful of losing insurance and access to care.
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Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem told a news conference there was "a general agreement" among euro zone ministers about the ECB approach.
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And there is general agreement that reproductive technology is progressing faster than consideration of the legal and ethical questions it raises.
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Officials conducted eight successful rounds of multinational trade negotiations between 1947 and 1994 under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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And there is also general agreement that the United States is losing the global competition to create a business-friendly tax environment.
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There are vocal supporters behind the net neutrality debate, and there's a general agreement around at least portions of the proposed rules.
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"We are coming to a general agreement that this is the direction to go and we are ready to go," he said.
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"Our aspiration is that the bilateral agreement (with Spain) can be signed off the same time as the general agreement," he said.
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"All really good writing is mysterious, because it's irreducible," Offill said, but there was general agreement that "Jesus' Son" is especially so.
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The principle of most-favored-nation treatment is required by Article I of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade signed in 1947.
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The general agreement is that, ultimately, there is no military solution, and that Russia cannot prosper from a never-ending conflict in Syria.
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But she said there was "general agreement that there are distortions in the corporate tax code" that could be changed to improve productivity.
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And there's general agreement that the committee does a decent job at reviewing foreign entities trying to gain control in a U.S. company.
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He has criticized the most-favored-nations, nondiscrimination concept, which is the cornerstone of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/WTO system.
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That trend was strengthened by its accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which the U.S. had actively lobbied for.
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Still, there is a general agreement that, at least when it comes to the Tour, the United States is at a low point.
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which went into effect in 1948, was in the process of reducing tariffs, not raising them.
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Mr. Meservey, the Heritage Foundation analyst, said non-signatory countries may demand exceptions to the general agreement even as the process goes forward.
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In the end, there's general agreement — on some books more than others — but sometimes there's disappointment when a favorite doesn't make the cut.
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But while everyone had their own individual critiques and flaws to point out, the general agreement is that you will not be disappointed.
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OPEC sources said the OPEC+ meeting was unlikely to be brought forward unless there was general agreement on the need to reduce output further.
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He was a crucial part of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) round that saw GATT turn into the World Trade Organization.
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in operation since 1948, created the environment in which tariffs have tumbled to their present low rates.
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"The general agreement was that the candidate who had a real firepower advantage, who could outspend their opponents, would stand to benefit," Iyengar says.
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There is no legislative fix for ideological imbalance in the classroom, nor any general agreement that it is a problem that should be fixed.
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Success came after the negotiators studied compromise proposals put forward by Eric Wyndham White, head of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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There is now general agreement that autism is a condition rooted in neurological and chemical processes and that there is a strong genetic component.
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Still, there is general agreement that it's not smart to get involved with a client until the business part of the relationship is done.
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Everyone came to the table with the general agreement that healthcare for all was a moral necessity and abortion access was a fundamental right.
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Still, Alexander said Wednesday that he's received "general agreement" from both sides of the aisle that the CSR funding paired with waiver reforms could pass.
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One area of general agreement appears to be that the key sizes for these algorithms will be much larger than those used in current algorithms.
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While some parts of the package have been met with general agreement — such as capping out-of-pocket costs for seniors — others are more controversial.
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Indeed, these are the bedrock principles of long-established international trade conventions within the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization.
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CETA's offerings on financial services essentially repeat the WTO's General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), which offer significantly less market access than EU membership.
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organization rules have kept trade conflicts from escalating (tit-for-tat tariffs or, worse, wars).
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By one recent estimate, membership of the WTO or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), its predecessor, has boosted trade among members by 171%.
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The national treatment obligation is enshrined in Article III of GATT 19453 especially its fourth paragraph ("General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade", WTO, 1947 and 1994).
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Although the record is not entirely clear, there was general agreement that Judge Pickering had become mentally unfit to perform his duties as a federal judge.
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A third is what's now called the World Trade Organization (then the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), an organization designed to keep trade flow open.
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There is general agreement that new market models are needed to promote the discovery of novel antibiotics, which may end up being reserved for emergency use.
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In the founding days of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the WTO's predecessor), however, new members were free to set most any tariff schedule.
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They said last week they had a general agreement to add the energy tax breaks to the FAA bill, but had yet to unveil final details.
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With much of the two-party system and the American people in general agreement about the parameters of politics, that was not a terribly difficult task.
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It turns out that people know receptiveness when they see it: our raters were in general agreement about which writers demonstrated receptiveness and which did not.
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Then, in 1947, the U.S. and its partners established the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which basically created a multilateral version of the same system.
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Though there's general agreement in Congress on the need for paid leave, there is still a lot of ground between the two parties' ideas for it.
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But there is general agreement from across the political spectrum that Beijing has been using North Korea for decades in hopes of advancing its regional goals.
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The obvious way to think about blockchains is as a kind of database, though a more exact definition that commands general agreement is hard to come by.
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Bhala said the tariffs would almost certainly run afoul of both the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT.
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As we quickly approach 2018, it's safe to say that one of 2017's major victories is the general agreement that sexual harassment just won't fly anymore.
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There was general agreement among all the climate researchers I talked to that it makes sense to switch to renewables when it's the cheapest carbon-free option.
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The EU curbs violate the World Trade Organization's non-discrimination obligations, while some elements go against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the paper said.
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This reflects decades of reciprocal tariff liberalization, mostly under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is now part of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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" Representative Joe Barton, a Republican of Texas, said: "We wouldn't be having this discussion if there wasn't a general agreement that your company had discriminated against conservatives.
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Sutton's comments come after President Donald Trump reached a general agreement on trade with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker after a meeting in Washington on Wednesday.
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The European Union and the United States are each other's largest trading partner, and there is general agreement that both sides would benefit from lower trade barriers.
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There is general agreement that the Met's current home for Modern and contemporary art — the 1987 Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of the main building — needs an overhaul.
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The nation may not be unified about much at the moment, but there seemed to be general agreement about the start that March is getting off to.
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Bhala also said the tariffs would almost certainly run afoul of both the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT.
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America used to invoke this section to hit its trade opponents before disputes could be dealt with by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the WTO's precursor.
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Up until approximately 15 years ago, there was a general agreement in neuroscience that most of our brain development happens in the first few years of our life.
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In contrast, previous waves of trade liberalization, including the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), focused more on reducing barriers to manufacturing trade.
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Most of the entire Internet is funded by a general agreement on this principle: Digital advertising delivers equal or greater ROI to businesses than other available marketing strategies.
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"There is general agreement that regulation of toxicity of smoke of construction products could increase product costs and potentially remove some products from the market," is another conclusion.
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There was a general agreement that the content reflected too much of Rice's voice, resulting in a watered-down, Jay Leno-as-Nigerian monologue, delivered uncomfortably by Bakassi.
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Yet, the bottom line after discussions was a general agreement that much more needs to be done in Berlin and Washington, and this is no time to rest.
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On the 70th anniversary year of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that spawned the global trade architecture, global trade relations have never been more fraught.
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The U.S. representative at the meeting did not respond directly to the criticism but said its tariffs were "consistent" with the WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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The people briefed on the meeting said that those in attendance were in general agreement that each plane could require at least 100 hours or more of work.
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The W.T.O. and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, have been led for decades by the United States and other relatively developed and open economies.
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The failure of the Doha Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the rise of bilateral preferential trade arrangements have undermined the multilateral approach.
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But there is general agreement that the solution must include a new or revamped terminal within a few blocks of the existing one, on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has reached a general agreement with Venezuela on restructuring its debt to Moscow, RIA news agency cited Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov as saying on Saturday.
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The Fed board, in a letter to the auditor, said it was "in general agreement" with its recommendations, noting that many were implemented in the course of the review.
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India argues that the U.S. duties on steel and aluminum are inconsistent with provisions of the WTO's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and of the Agreement on Safeguards.
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But, there were a couple of areas of general agreement among Democrats and Republicans, one of which was that overwhelming majorities of both groups viewed Trump as self-centered.
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"We wouldn't be having this discussion if there wasn't a general agreement that your company had discriminated against conservatives," Representative Joe Barton, Republican of Texas, said to Mr. Dorsey.
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After the second world war, rich countries coordinated to avoid a race towards higher tariffs, creating the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which in 1995 grew into the WTO.
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The WTO panel ruled that the exclusion of chicken products from a list of permitted imports was "inconsistent" with rules of the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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Mnuchin spoke a day after the White House announced it had reached a general agreement with the European Union to work toward zero tariffs and reform the World Trade Organization.
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There's general agreement that Fan's disappearance is related to her so-called "yin yang contracts" for her film roles leaked on Chinese that leaked on social media in late May.
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Terms of the settlement haven't been announced, but the companies appear to have reached a general agreement that's supposed to move them closer to a cross-licensing deal for their patents.
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"There is a general agreement among Republicans in Washington that this president is uniquely susceptible to flattery," said a Republican strategist who formerly served as a senior aide in the Senate.
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Ghosn and his opposite number at Mitsubishi Motors worked out a general agreement, and Saikawa pushed it through to completion, working on the details of the new partnership, the executives said.
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While it was only one poll, and one done by a Louisiana polling firm not exactly known for its expertise in Tennessee politics, there's a general agreement that Lee is surging.
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"There is now general agreement in the country about the importance of fiscal consolidation roadmap both at national and state levels," Das said in a speech at a book launch event.
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" The problem for Endara, however, was that the sentence also said he had still participated by "manifesting his general agreement with the social collective and making it clear with his applause.
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In 2195, Mexico gained entry into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — the precursor to the World Trade Organization — which lowered tariffs and relaxed rules on foreign ownership of companies.
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It is possible that there is some other reason for this, but there is general agreement that until another association is found, the Zika virus should be assumed to be the cause.
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"There was general agreement that there was a need to counter the perception that monetary policy could no longer contribute to a return of inflation (to the ECB's target)," the ECB said.
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While critics are divided on just how good the movie is as compared to classic Pixar sequels like Toy Story 2, there's general agreement that it's among some of the studio's best.
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The Spaniard's move would be part of a general agreement that will see Honda take their engines to Red Bull-owned Toro Rosso, whose Renault supply would then become available for McLaren.
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His comments came during a White House meeting about immigration, convened by the president with lawmakers from both parties, from which emerged a general agreement to shield so-called Dreamers from deportation.
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"The general agreement is that (working group session) should not take place for more than two or three days," the source told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of present discussions.
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There is general agreement that China was the biggest-grossing region for auction sales in 2016, though the reliability of the figures, which differ in the three reports, remains open to question.
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Still, there is more general agreement that the Trump team has been sloppy and less professional that it should be, in everything from its communications operation to how it's handled its hiring.
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Before the WTO established a rigid dispute process, trade was governed by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which resolved trade disputes through diplomatic muscle rather than a deliberative, legal manner.
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Second, having established by general agreement that the government's current plan is not acceptable to Parliament or the EU (or, frankly, most sane humans) the public should not be asked to legitimise it.
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Still, there is general agreement that crude shipments have dropped from at least 2.5 million bpd in April 2018, the month before President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal.
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America was an architect of trade liberalization, championing the founding of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade shortly after World War II. Eight successful rounds of GATT negotiations greatly reduced tariffs worldwide.
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As director-general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and, on its founding, of the World Trade Organisation, the Irishman was the public face of bodies helping to integrate the global economy.
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They influenced the structure of the European Economic Community of 1957, the renegotiation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade during the 1970s, and the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995.
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The W.T.O. was born out of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a compact forged in 1947 that lowered barriers to international commerce in an effort to prevent a repeat of global hostilities.
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The general agreement among those who analyzed the TPP, however, was that it was on the whole very profitable for the US: Yes, it made poor foreigners pay through the nose for intellectual property.
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But two areas of general agreement between the Democrats, Republicans and President Donald Trump stand out as having a high potential of successful legislation: lowering prescription drug prices and new regulations to protect online privacy.
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Still, there is general agreement that crude shipments have dropped from at least 2.5 million bpd in April 2018, the month before President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran.
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"There needs to be some kind of a code of conduct that everybody signs on with, who everybody is in general agreement with," the director said, when asked about the rise of the #MeToo movement.
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The founders of what would become the European Union were persuaded that links were essential for European peace, and the same conviction inspired the establishment of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs in 1947.
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The presentations were part of an outpouring of dozens of papers from the two teams on the results so far this year from the collider, all of them in general agreement with the Standard Model.
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But the modern moment is not an imperial one: that's all gone, faded away like the briefly consequential mountain men of this book, and with the world, by general agreement, a better place in consequence.
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"There is general agreement on this even by those defending the Pentagon's efforts that they continued to not have a grip on this," said Eugene R. Fidell, a senior research scholar at Yale Law School.
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There is, however, general agreement that eurozone countries must do more to prevent crises, for example by creating a permanent fund akin to the International Monetary Fund that could be used to help stricken members.
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Despite general agreement in the Democratic Party that Trump is a bad president who has done a lot of bad things, party leaders have believed all year that impeaching him would be a political mistake.
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The WTO, and its forerunner the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is one of the pillars of post-war prosperity and a major reason the global economy has never suffered another collapse like the 1930s.
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Canada said U.S. procedures broke the WTO's Anti-Dumping Agreement, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes.
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Still, there is general agreement that crude shipments have dropped from at least 2.5 million bpd in April 2018, the month before U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal with Iran.
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There is general agreement across the political spectrum that there are only three constitutionally valid alternatives open to Puerto Rico: Statehood, continued Territorial Status (incorporated or unincorporated) or independence (either under Free Association or full Independence).
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The summit produced a general agreement from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, but there were no specific commitments on eliminating or even reducing his country&aposs nuclear arsenal.
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There is general agreement in Germany that the country should ban GMOs but disagreement whether the bans should be imposed by federal or state authorities caused a long delay in agreeing the draft law on the ban.
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"We have reached a general agreement that we will start to restore diplomatic staff in Moscow and in London some time in January," TASS quoted Russia's ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko as saying in a televised interview.
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We have had consistent movement toward reduced trade barriers and reduced tariffs, commencing with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1948, continuing through trade barrier reductions under the World Trade Organization agreements on Jan.
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The report defended U.S. actions to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on national security grounds, adding that national security exceptions have long been recognized at the WTO and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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However the United States had not proven all of its case, failing to show that China had violated its public notice obligation under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in respect to TRQs, the panel said.
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Minutes released late Wednesday from the Fed's latest policy meeting showed some voting Federal Reserve policymakers expected a further U.S. interest rate increase will be required soon, although there was a general agreement that more data are needed.
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It did not give any detailed examples of how it had come to this finding, but said the banks had a general agreement to collude and had used instant messaging, phone conversation and meetings to coordinate their activities.
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The news outlet reported that Moscow is justifying the restriction under the terms of Article 21 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which allows countries to violate their commitments to the WTO over national security purposes.
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And he can do it safely: While there has been speculation about potential retaliation against the United States if it raises import restrictions, an exception in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade permits them for security purposes.
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There is general agreement on refining Volcker across the political spectrum, but Democrats - some of whom say the rule does not go far enough — are wary of handing too much discretion to banks when it comes to trading.
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There is general agreement on refining Volcker across the political spectrum, but Democrats - some of whom say the rule does not go far enough - are wary of handing too much discretion to banks when it comes to trading.
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When he visited the enrollment page, "it just wasn't clear exactly what I was agreeing to," he says — especially because Equifax posts a general agreement that applies to the entire site and product portfolio, in addition to TrustedID Premier's.
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We haven't really seen a big trade war since the end of World War II, and that's because we created an agreement called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which ultimately evolved into the World Trade Organization.
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The WTO, and before it the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), used to update themselves every so often through rounds of negotiation designed to spread the benefits of trade wider in ways on which all could agree.
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The US, along with Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and other similar countries, built the global trading system through multiple rounds of negotiation for the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which then morphed into the WTO in 1994.
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The Commission alleged that from at least 2007 traders had a general agreement to collude on prices for bids, offers and bid-offer spreads for the spot trades in relation to currency trading involving the dollar and rand currency.
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Donald KatzProfessor of Psychology at Brandeis University who teaches behavioral neuroscience and studies what makes foods taste good or badAmong neuroscientists, there is general agreement that there are only five tastes, of which only one is truly disgusting—bitterness.
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For over six decades, the U.S. focused on combating anti-trade ideologies and reducing trade barriers, both at home and abroad, through successive rounds in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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"There is general agreement that should the situation worsen considerably, there needs to be a discussion on what should we do collectively or in a coordinated manner, but this is not what we would do today," the official said.
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Some British politicians have suggested that in the event of a "no deal Brexit", Article 24 of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade can be invoked to keep Britain and the EU trading without tariffs.
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Russia's energy ministry had said that Moscow and OPEC lynchpin Saudi Arabia had reached a general agreement that the OPEC+ format should be "institutionalized" and extended until 2019 and beyond to monitor the market and take joint action if needed.
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Sutherland returned from Brussels briefly in 1989 and after a stint as chairman of Allied Irish Banks he became the WTO's first chief in 1995, having previously been head of its precursor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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"There's a general agreement that type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for various types of both structural and functional abnormalities in the brain," said Dr. Donald C. Simonson, a co-author of the study and an endocrinologist specializing in diabetes.
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Congress and a whole list of presidential administrations have diligently liberalized trade, creating first the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, then the World Trade Organization (WTO), while also entering into regional pacts like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Russia's energy ministry had said that Moscow and OPEC lynchpin Saudi Arabia had reached a general agreement that the OPEC+ format should be "institutionalised" and extended until 2019 and beyond to monitor the market and take joint action if needed.
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For major aspects of the crimes, I've looked for general agreement between the main sources like newspapers and homicide reports, although in some cases I had to make choices about which seemed more likely, just to keep up the narrative going.
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In fact, I found an unexpectedly high percentage of the experts I contacted — most of whom are sympathetic to the plight of immigrants — in general agreement that Democrats would be wise to come to some kind of an agreement with Trump.
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Still, the fact that no one called out those two leading candidates in absentia — even Ms. Warren noted her general agreement with Mr. Sanders on health care — indicates that the Democrats are still reluctant to engage with each other more forcefully.
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Thus the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, signed in 1947 — at a time of overwhelming U.S. economic dominance — didn't seek a privileged position for American products, but instead created rules of the game to promote prosperity around the world.
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"We have reached a general agreement that we will start to restore diplomatic staff in Moscow and in London some time in January," the TASS news agency earlier quoted Russia's ambassador to London Alexander Yakovenko as saying in a television interview.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump hailed progress on trade after meeting his Mexican counterpart on Friday, as Mexico's government said it expected a general agreement on reworking the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by the end of 2017.
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Nouy repeatedly defended the guidelines, arguing that they do not equate with laws, and the chair of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said there was "a general agreement" in favor of the ECB approach on bad loans.
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There's general agreement on a handful of measures, two Senate aides familiar with the negotiations said, including restructuring how Part D's catastrophic phase is financed, capping seniors' out-of-pocket costs and limiting price increases in Part B to the inflation rate.
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Theory: the mystery woman is a Borg/Soong hybrid based on Data's design for Lal from startrek There's general agreement that the woman, who is painted as sympathetic in the trailer, is more than she appears to be — and she could be dangerous.
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In the UK, there is general agreement from most of the people involved in these cases—those who have been punished for supplying drugs and the friends and families of those who have died—that the status quo is not helping anyone.
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Pro-Brexit campaigners say even if Britain and the EU fail to agree terms for their divorce, Article 24 of the World Trade Organization's (WTO) General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade would let them keep trading as now for up to a decade.
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There's general agreement on a handful of measures, two Senate aides familiar with the negotiations said, including restructuring how Part D's catastrophic phase is financed, capping seniors' out-of-pocket costs, and limiting price increases in Part B to the inflation rate.
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Global financial institutions, like the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (which would become the World Trade Organization), were designed to prevent countries from reimposing the self-defeating trade barriers that made the Great Depression far worse than it had to be.
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The timeline granted under the defining Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), framed in 1995 by the WTO's former avatar known as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, was drawing to a close.
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Over 22 million comments were submitted; while estimates of how many were either fakes (widely reported to have involved mass identity fraud using real names), duplicates, or bulk-submitted form letters vary, there is general agreement that the vast majority were not uniquely written letters.
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Whatever the reason, the candidates in the Democratic debate at St. Anselm College Friday night were surprisingly collegial, putting on a relative lovefest complete with bro-hugs, backslaps, and general agreement that, well, the seven people on the stage generally agree on most things.
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At that point, the liberal donor community came to general agreement that the left needed a secure a permanent infrastructure at the national level to compete with such conservative institutions as the Chamber of Commerce, the American Enterprise Institute, Americans for Tax Reform and Heritage.
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Johnson has argued that an article under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (known as "GATT 24") could be used to keep current arrangements with the EU in place (that is, no trade tariffs) until a free trade deal is negotiated with the bloc.
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Johnson said that if talks on a deal fail, he would push for a "standstill period," during which trade with the EU would remain tariff-free, under a clause in the set of international rules called the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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That is the most cash to be withdrawn from those products since late June and came as U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers showed general agreement that further gradual rate hikes would be consistent with the economic expansion, labor market strength and firm inflation that most forecast.
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And rightfully so, when one considers that it has been more than 70 years — three generations — since the setting in place of U.S.-sponsored world trade mechanisms such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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It took another decade and a world war for the rest of the world to come around to freer trade with the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — a precursor to the World Trade Organization, which Trump has also reportedly condemned.
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Article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which lays down the rules to be respected by member countries when they establish customs unions or free-trade areas in order that other countries are not discriminated against, contains a little-used provision on "frontier traffic".
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar erased early gains and edged lower against the euro, yen and Swiss franc on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting showed general agreement that more data was needed before the next rate increase from the central bank.
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Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement responding to President Trump's morning tweets surrounding DACA, agreeing that there was "no final deal" but rather general agreement on the following terms: Trump will encourage the House and Senate to enshrine protections granted by DACA into law.
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While this was obviously influenced by Starboard's activist approach, a person close to the situation stressed that it was a highly collaborative effort between the two organizations, and also indicated that there was general agreement that it was time to bring in new perspectives to the board.
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"There is broad general agreement that small businesses in this country will not be able to survive unless there is extraordinary assistance," said Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida and the chairman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, who worked with Democrats to create the program.
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Advocates for seniors and the industries that serve them are in general agreement here: that care at home and in your nearby community will probably be cut first, given that Medicaid isn't required to pay for that but is required to pay for nursing home care.
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For example, the EU has exclusive competence for the common commercial policy and member states are not permitted to adopt unilateral restrictions on imports into the EU. The bill is also inconsistent with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the international agreement covering trade in goods.
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There is plenty that Five Star and the League do agree on, most importantly their antagonism toward Brussels, their opposition to sanctions against President Vladimir V. Putin's Russia and their general agreement that migration needs to be countered and that Italians need to be put first.
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Despite some criticism, Swedish political parties across the spectrum came to a general agreement to increase defense spending by $250 million in their 2018 budget and another $340 million per year for the three following years, edging the country's defense spending up from 1.1% of GDP in 2016.
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While some experts are skeptical that the group's efforts have that much sway over the city's overall gun violence, there was general agreement that efforts like this — if they get adequate funding — can help combat gun violence as part of a comprehensive plan along with broader police reforms.
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"There's a general agreement among broadcasters that the opening bid prices that you see registered are high and that you won't be getting that," said Dr. John MacKerron, professor at Towson University who manages student-run WMJF-CD in Towson, Maryland, one of the three sold to HME.
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The brief submitted to the WTO also argues that China should be treated the same way as communist eastern European countries, including Poland, Romania and Hungary were when they joined the WTO's predecessor organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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China also previously "paid" the United States by making concessions to us in exchange for which we took on the obligations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Articles II and XX – which preclude the US from imposing the recent national security tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum.
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Countries had hoped that the talks, named after the capital of Qatar, where they began in late 2001, would substantially lower trade barriers, contribute to development in poor nations and tackle difficult issues like agricultural subsidies that were not resolved in earlier pacts, like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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"There was general agreement that we need an indicator that takes out all the cyclical elements and one-offs but preferably it should be more stable and not change all the time, and we could put more emphasis on indicators that we can actually directly influence as finance ministers," he said.
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While there is a general agreement—even among critics like Hamdard—that the new law could be relatively sufficient in its current form, concerns over its implementation remain firmly rooted among stakeholders in Afghanistan, who, by experience, have learned to be cautious of the contemporary legal systems in the country.
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While final language of the BAT isn't available, a tax on imported goods and a tax exemption for exported items (which amounts to an export subsidy), would probably violate the so-called national treatment principle of the WTO and the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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As the negotiations wore on Tuesday, discussions moved away from policy -- which had some general agreement but could take days more to sort out -- toward what would be enough to stop a procedural move that would force the issue to the floor at the end of June on moderates' terms.
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On Wednesday, United States officials said that China's behavior violated the language of the agreement China signed when it joined the W.T.O. 15 years ago, as well as the text of the W.T.O.'s precursor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which calls for using market-determined prices in calculations.
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RE: The People Who Believe Electricity Rules the Universe Dear Ms. Scoles: While I am in general agreement with your presentation of the mindset / beliefs of the Electric Universe enthusiasts, their description of cometary phenomena -- complete with verified / verifiable predictions -- does seem to comport with a great deal of recent observational data.
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The Bretton Woods experiment following World War II, which established the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and the resulting creation of the WTO nearly half a century later, wasn't just about advancing US interests alone, it was about advancing our collective interests.
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Despite the rhetoric from the left since the 2628s — and now from the Trump wing of the Republican party — more open trade and competition, fostered in part by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO), has increased the income of Americans and citizens of other developed countries.
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By then, he had stopped teaching and had become an official in the French Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he played an influential behind-the-scenes role in establishing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) and the European Economic Community, the forerunner of the European Union—in other words, Common Marketization.
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By building on small victories, aggregating to larger successes, the hope was to create bottom-up trade deals while also pursuing top-down global, comprehensive agreements like the so-called "Uruguay Round," which had created the World Trade Organization (WTO) out of its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
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"In Panama's view, however, these legislative acts, far from bringing the measure into conformity with Colombia's WTO obligations, perpetuate the nullification and impairment of benefits accruing to Panama directly or indirectly under the GATT 1994," Panama said, referring to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a founding agreement of the WTO.
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Less public has been a recent resurgence of hostage-takings and kidnap attempts; most of those cases aren't publicly reported by general agreement among the press, although sometimes the kidnappers themselves seek publicity — as with a video released recently showing two American University of Afghanistan professors who are being held hostage by insurgents.
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NEW YORK, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Longer-dated U.S. Treasury prices added to earlier gains on Wednesday as the minutes of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting in July showed some policy-makers expected an interest rate hike will be needed soon, but there is a general agreement that more data are required before such a move.
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Substantive changes to trade policy would have to come through the renegotiation of NAFTA — roughly 30% of U.S. trade is done with Canada or Mexico — and a fundamental rethink of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a series of multilateral treaties that culminated in the launch of the World Trade Organization in 1994.
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"If NATO is to step up their efforts in Iraq by individuals or tens or hundreds, I will not tell you at this point, but there is general agreement that NATO can, and should do more, especially by stepping up efforts in training, capacity building, institution building, exercises to increasing home capabilities," he said.
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Though opinions of President Trump and of Chief Gallagher vary widely in the SEAL teams, six SEALs on active duty at various bases said there was general agreement among their comrades on one thing: The unusually public tug of war over the chief has been an embarrassment and an unwanted distraction from their broader mission.
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But during the era when the Interstate system was founded, tariffs were being reduced, not increased: the US and its international partners in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, agreed to shrink or eliminate thousands of tariffs during their negotiations in the late 1940s and early-to-mid-1950s.
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What's next: There was a general agreement at Sunday's talks to organize a higher-level meeting of foreign ministers soon, though no date had been set, according to AP. Go deeper: Finding a way off the U.S.-Iran ledge Iran's nuclear escalation raises stakes for U.S. and Europe Iran's uranium threats aim to push U.S. back into nuclear deal
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Although there is a general agreement on the trends related to aging, we are ill-equipped to grasp their magnitude in terms of the shift in societal composition: We expect the addition of more than a billion senior citizens by 2050 and an associated drop in the dependency ratio to pose immense challenges, but also present opportunities.
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We are at such a point in the debate around international development funding, and we believe that by acting on three areas of general agreement on reform, the United States can see significant improvements in the effectiveness of our efforts, greater accountability and value for the taxpayer, and a safer and more prosperous United States and world.
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On this topic the committee argues that while there is no consensus on the impact of AI and robotics on the domestic workforce — in terms of how jobs might change, or be destroyed, or created — it says there is "general agreement" that much more attention needs to be paid to adapting education and training systems to update skills to mesh with emergent technologies.
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"In a joint statement which was read in the meeting, the four countries confirmed that all measures taken do conform with the international systems which legally give the member countries room to move against any country who dares to harm their security and stability, a sovereign right conforming with Article 21 of the General Agreement of trade in goods," SPA reported.
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But it doesn't work that way: It is tempting to imagine that once general agreement has been reached on the nature of the climate change problem — for example, agreement that warming should be stopped at 1.5 or 2 °C, as was visibly codified in Paris — appropriate institutions will emerge and that optimal mitigation strategies discovered by economic analysis will somehow follow suit.
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To the Editor: I applaud your editorials about the link between guns and domestic violence, but while you imply that there is general agreement that, as Senator Frank Lautenberg said, "wife beaters should not have guns," no one should forget that Florida passed a law making it a crime for doctors to ask if there is a gun in the house.
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The world has been there before -- long before the creation of the WTO in 1995 or even its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade after World War II. All of these were a reaction to the catastrophic American Smoot-Hawley Tariff that in 1930 helped plunge the world into the maelstrom of the Great Depression, compounding the 1929 stock market crash.
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By 1946, when Republicans gained control of Congress and he became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Vandenberg became an important ally to President Harry Truman in passing the Marshall Plan for reconstruction aid to Europe and in renewing the trade program, which led to the creation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — the predecessor of today's rules-based world trade system.
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Minutes of the ECB's April policy meeting showed rate setters agreed they needed to defend the bank against a growing number of critics questioning its policy and credibility "There was general agreement that there was a need to counter the perception that monetary policy could no longer contribute to a return of inflation (to the ECB's target)," the ECB said in the account of the meeting.
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The United States also needs to re-embrace its responsibilities to the liberal international order it painstakingly created after World War II. This order was anchored in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund and other institutions and principles that have become the bedrock of free societies, free economies and free polities.
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Some voting Federal Reserve policymakers expect that a U.S. interest rate increase will be needed soon, although there is general agreement that more data is needed before such a move, according to the minutes from the Fed's July policy meeting The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was down on Wednesday, near 1.5466 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was down at 2.2619 percent.
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"I'm not sure we can stop it," said Dr. John Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist at Baptist Health in Louisville, Ky. The study began because there was general agreement among researchers that many common diseases are linked not to one mutation, but rather to thousands or millions of mutations, said the first author of the new paper, Dr. Amit V. Khera, a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a researcher at the Broad Institute.
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" In a long assessment of Mr. Taylor's work — one of the first — from "Four Lives in the Bebop Business," a collection of essays on jazz musicians published in 1966, the poet and critic A. B. Spellman wrote: "There is only one musician who has, by general agreement even among those who have disliked his music, been able to incorporate all that he wants to take from classical and modern Western composition into his own distinctly individual kind of blues without in the least compromising those blues, and that is Cecil Taylor, a kind of Bartok in reverse.
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Your big news of the week — and possibly the year and beyond, depending on how it ultimately shakes out — is that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced a general agreement that includes the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in exchange for the U.S. offering up "security guarantees" while ending joint military exercises with South Korea.
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Africa's competition commission- has been investigating a case of price fixing and market allocation in trading of foreign currency pairs involving rand since april 2015 * South Africa's Competition Commission - has now referred case to tribunal for prosecution * South Africa's Competition Commission - found that from at least 2007, respondents had a general agreement to collude on prices for bids, offers and bid-offer spreads for spot trades in relation to currency trading involving us dollar / rand currency pair * South Africa's Competition Commission - found that respondents manipulated price of bids and offers through agreements to refrain from trading and creating fictitious bids and offers at particular times * South Africa's Competition Commission - commission is seeking an order from tribunal declaring that respondents have contravene competition act * South Africa's Competition Commission - is seeking an order declaring that banks are liable for payment of an administrative penalty equal to 10% of their annual turnover.
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