What is Next for the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement?: Hearings Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, Niagara Falls, NY, September 4, and Washington, DC, October 1, 1991, Band 4

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 229 Seiten
 

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Seite 106 - Present efforts for multilateral agricultural policy reforms are taking place in the framework of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Seite 140 - In an important sense, the sequencing of trade liberalization In the hemisphere has been very fortunate: US -Canada first, with the most important agreement, since it covers by far the largest trading relationship; and Mexico, the next largest trading country In the hemisphere. Included next. This has minimized the pressure at each stage to change the existing agreement. To see this from another point of view, suppose that the first hemispheric FTA had been an agreement negotiated by the United States...
Seite 168 - Reagan administration deserves credit for successfully negotiating the pact with Canada, because it did signal that trade liberalization is still possible and that international negotiations can still bear fruit. The Canada-US, agreement has gone further, faster than the multilateral Uruguay Round, and has been a catalyst for those talks. The agreement was comprehensive, spanning virtually the entire...
Seite 118 - FTA commits the parties to seek "to develop more effective rules and disciplines concerning the use of government subsidies" and "to develop a substitute system of rules for dealing with unfair pricing and government subsidization.
Seite 174 - Round of 6 multilateral trade negotiations, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 established TAA for workers whose layoff could be attributed to a tariff reduction. The program provided compensation and adjustment services to those workers. In 1974, TAA was liberalized to cover all cases where imports "contributed importantly
Seite 161 - Administration is committed to achieving a successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Seite 181 - Discriminatory bilateral agreements cannot combine to form a globally consistent, stable system of national trade policies.
Seite 181 - States tried to negotiate additional bilateral agreements. Furthermore, if other countries were to follow the US lead by trying to negotiate through bilateral agreements offering mutually incompatible privileges, predictability would be destroyed for all countries.
Seite 71 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to thank the members of the panel for...
Seite 97 - April-May 1989. 96 averaged in 1984 about 1 per cent in Canada and .5 per cent in the United States.

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