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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT"”.
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Assessing the consistency of the implementation of the Namibian Horticultural Market Share Promotion Scheme under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994
The application of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and specifically non-automatic import licensing schemes has been a source of intense debate to date, despite prohibitive provisions enshrined in multilateral trade agreements. The main aim of this case study research was to assess the consistency of the …
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The WTO Legal Regime for the Actionability of Agricultural Subsidies after the Expiry of the Peace Clause
Because of the Agreement on Agriculture’s (AoA) Article 13, dubbed the “Peace Clause,” the challengeability of agricultural subsidies has been limited; Article 13 had the power to prevent several types of legal challenges. The Peace Clause has expired, and now many agricultural subsidies can be …
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Legal challenges for developing countries exports of agricultural food products to the EU
… critically examines the increasing complexity and diversity of market access issues for agricultural food products from developing countries (DCs) to the European Union (EU). Agriculture is the sector which receives the most protection from the EU and the trade-distorting measures, employed by …
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The legality of Botswana's import bans under the SACU agreement of 2002: an analysis of the SACU agreement's trade liberalization framework
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the world's oldest functioning customs union, founded in 1910. A key objective of SACU, evident through its 2002 Agreement (the Agreement), is to facilitate the cross-border movement of goods between the territories of the respective member countries, or …
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Anti -dumping or protection: an analysis of competition issues in dumping investigations
'J. Michael Finger once portrayed the anti-dumping regime as a "witches' brew of the worst of policy making: power politics, bad economics, and shameful public administration.'' The thesis looks at the role of competition in anti-dumping investigations. With the growth in the initiation of …
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The impact of the 1992 MacSharry CAP reforms on agriculture in the Grampian Region.
This thesis is an examination of the impact of the 1992 MacSharry Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on one region of the European Union (ED), namely Grampian Region in Scotland. The period of analysis is 1991-95, covering the year prior to reform up to the final year of the transitional …
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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
How do conventional farmers engage with farmland, especially rice paddy, nature in contemporary Japan? To answer this question, I examine multiple ways in which they practice their relationships with “socio-natures” and how those practices have historically and transnationally developed, especially …
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A theoretical and empirical study of performance measurement: a challenge for management accounting information systems
Management accounting information systems (MAISs) play an important role in supporting continuous improvement efforts and management decision-making activities. MAISs provide manufacturing companies with internal financial and some non-financial information required for the three essential …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay estimates a demand function for compressed natural gas as a fuel substitute to diesel fuel for firms with hybrid fleets. The data is from the Energy Information Administration, for the years 1989 to 2009, for 47 states. Results show that …
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries: a study of its organisation, policies and legal significance
… study of OPEC. It seeks to ascertain and analyse the international legal status of OPEC and its characteristics, to examine how OPEC functions and what its stated aims and objectives are, to evaluate the performance of OPEC in the context of these objectives, and to suggest …
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Can port state measures taken against RMFO partners be reconciled with international trade law? a critical analysis of the EU shared stocks regulation in light of the herring dispute
The European Union (EU) and Faroe Islands, a small self-governing archipelago under the sovereignty of Denmark, both belong to the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC). NEAFC is a regional fisheries management organisation (RFMO) which is responsible for the management of, inter alia, …
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Procedural environmental rights in regional trade agreements: trends, policy drivers and the case for multilateralisation within the World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the nexus between trade and the environment. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), as amended in 1994 during the Uruguay Round, in effect established a new treaty structure to govern international trade and commerce. The underlying philosophy …
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
… to meet the sustainability goal of reducing carbon emission associated with conventional fossil fuel. However, biofuel production, if not implemented with care, can bring about lots of environmental and social problems itself. The growing of feedstock can exacerbate land degradation, water …
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International Trade in Oil and the World Trade Organization: Towards the Resolution of the Producer-Consumer Dilemma
Restrictions on the production of oil practiced by oil exporting countries under the auspices of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has been the subject of contentions and debates over time. One of the dimensions of this discourse is in relation to the possible violation …