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  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade article - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT (disambiguation) Geneva ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is an agreement between states and other entities on the rules for trade.
GATT functions as the foundation of the WTO trading system, and remains in force, although the 1995 Agreement contains an updated version of it to replace the original 1947 one.
Reduced tariffs and export subsidies, reduced other import limits and quotas over the next 20 years, agreement to enforce patents, trademarks, and copyrights, and open up foreign investment.
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 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The countries who signed GATT periodically negotiated new trade agreements that all would enter into.
In general, each of these agreements bound the members to reduce certain tariffs, with many special-case treatments of individual products, and in many cases with exceptions and modifications for each country.
Strategy set for future GATT policy toward developing countries, improving their positions as treaty participants.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /GATT   (338 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: GATT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (usually abbreviated GATT) functions as the foundation of the WTO trading system, and remains in force, although the 1995 Agreement contains an updated version of it to replace the original 1947 one.
The GATT, as an international agreement, is very similar to a treaty.
Created the World Trade Organization to replace the GATT treaty.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/GATT   (282 words)

  
 World Trade Organization: world trade organization, history of world trade organization, wto or world trade organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Unlike the GATT, the WTO has a substantial institutional structure.
The WTO is effectively the long-delayed successor to the anticipated International Trade Organization, which was originally intended to follow the GATT.
Russia, having first applied to join GATT in 1993, is not yet a member either.
encyclopedia.openfun.org /wiki/World_Trade_Organization   (1603 words)

  
 GATT (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GATT might be an acronym or abbreviation for:
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GATT_(disambiguation)   (75 words)

  
 GATT at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The workings of the GATT agreement are the responsibility of the Council for Trade in Goods...
GATT resource page with links to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) rounds, GATT texts, the GATT digital library, GATT dispute settlements, and the history of GATT.
The WTO's predecessor, the GATT, was established on a provisional basis after the Second World War...
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 Tariff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In World War II both tariffs and reciprocity were insignificant compared to trade channeled through Lend Lease.
After the war the U.S. promoted the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT established in 1947, to minimize tariffs and other restrictions, and to liberalize trade among all capitalist countries.
In 1995 GATT became the World Trade Organization WTO; with the collapse of Communism its open markets/low tariff ideology became dominant worldwide in the 1990s.
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 Encyclopedia: Foreign trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This theory suggests that the government should play an active role in the economy by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use...
multilateral treaties like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (usually abbreviated GATT) functions as the foundation of the WTO trading system, and remains in force, although the 1995 Agreement contains an updated version of it to replace the original 1947 one.
GATT and For other uses of the initials WTO, see WTO (disambiguation).
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 Talk: GATT - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This was originally a redirect, then a disambiguation page after someone added a link to graphics address translation table.
To me, that is a fairly obscure term and a Google search on GATT refers primarily to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Therefore, I have restored the original redirect and created GATT (disambiguation) to include the second meaning.
talk.open-encyclopedia.com /GATT   (136 words)

  
 World Trade Organization -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an (An international alliance involving many different countries) international organization which oversees a large number of agreements defining the "rules of trade" between its member states (WTO, 2004a).
In the late (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s, the WTO became a major target of protests by the (Click link for more info and facts about anti-globalization movement) anti-globalization movement.
The International Trade Organization charter was agreed at the (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) UN Conference on Trade and Employment in Havana in March 1948, but was blocked by the (Click link for more info and facts about U.S. Senate) U.S. Senate (WTO, 2004b).
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 Encyclopedia: The Yes Men   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The field of labor relations looks at the relationship between management and workers, particularly groups of workers represented by a labor union.
The Yes Men's most famous prank is placing a "corrected" WTO website at gatt.org (GATT is the treaty that led to the WTO).
Their experiences were documented in the film The Yes Men, distributed by United Artists, as well as the book The Yes Men: The True Story of the End of the World Trade Organization (ISBN 0972952993).
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 GATT (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation GATT (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
GATT (disambiguation) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation GATT (disambiguation).
The list of the GATT (disambiguation) Authors is
The orginal GATT (disambiguation) article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/GATT-disambiguation.html   (84 words)

  
 Across Languages, Across Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries
GATT, making it possible to agree on negotiated *rules* to *clarify* the *issues* arising in the *international* *trade* and environment interface.
Query Term Disambiguation: Although the problem of polysemy is greatly reduced in a domain specific corpus, it is still present -- to a varying degree depending on the type of texts being treated.
Target Term Disambiguation: When constructing the L2 vocabulary of significant collocates for the L1 term being searched, our procedure takes as input all the translation equivalents listed in the bilingual dictionary, regardless of sense distinctions.
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 Encyclopedia: GSP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
The Generalized System of Preferences (or GSP) is a formal system of exemption from the more general rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) (formerly, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT).
Common nicknames GSP Country of origin Germany Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC, CKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC The German Shorthaired Pointer is a breed of dog developed in the 1800s in Germany for hunting.
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 Buy Tariff Books online - selected, recommended and reviewed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For other meanings of tariff'', see Tariff (disambiguation).
A tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods.
The Case Against Free Trade: Gatt, Nafta and the Globalization of Corporate Power (An Earth Island Press Book)
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 ITRI/NLCL Student Workshop 2004
Albert Gatt, Some empirical issues in the study of reference (and why a generator must face them).
Semantic formalisms for natural language, such as Montague semantics, generalised quantifiers or Boolean semantics, are well respected by logicians, however, I will argue that they fail to capture some fundamental features of meaning in language.
In the context of Word Sense Disambiguation, performance of supervised algorithms is strongly affected by the quantity and quality of training and testing materials.
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 World Trade Organization General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Holy See Lebanese Republic Serbia and Montenegro Iran ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
» 1986-1994 - Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations culminating in the Marrakech Agreement that established the WTO.
» December 11, 2001 - The People's Republic of China joined the WTO after 15 years of negotiations (the longest in GATT history).
Formed as successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the WTO is the only...
en.powerwissen.com /a2NdyczYazJvCIobtHc%2B1w%3D%3D_WTO.html   (1412 words)

  
 Document information retrieval using global word co-occurrence patterns - Patent 5675819
Decomposing a term-by-document matrix of a large collection can take days or even weeks because the time complexity is quadratic in the number of documents to process.
In order-0 retrieval, the undesired sense of an ambiguous search term may lead to the retrieval of documents that are not related to the query.
A query consisting of the terms "tank" and "water" retrieves only words relevant to the "receptacle" sense of the word "tank." The query consisting of the terms "tank" and "artillery" is apparently located in a part of the space that corresponds to the "armored vehicle" sense used in FIG.
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 Bilateral Otitis Media   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A similar reaction against bilateral trade agreements occurred after the Great Depression, where it was argued that they helped produce a cycle of rising tariffs that deepened thedownturn.
Thus after the Second World War the west turned tomultilateral agreements such as GATT.
Despite the high profile of modern multilateral systems such as the United Nations and the World TradeOrganization most effective diplomacy is still done at the bilateral level.
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 World Trade Organization articles and news from Start Learning Now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The WTO was created on January 1 1995 to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a series of post-Second World Warwar trade treaties intended to facilitate free trade.
- 1986-1994 - Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations culminating in the Marrakech Agreement that established the WTO.
- December 11, 2001 - The People's Republic of China joined the WTO after 15 years of negotiations (the longest in GATT history).
www.startlearningnow.com /WTO.htm   (1707 words)

  
 Bolivian Imports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the nineteenth century,especially in Britain, a belief in free trade became paramount and this view has dominated thinking among western nations for most of the timesince then.
In the years since the Second World War multilateral treaties like the GATT and World Trade Organization have attempted to create aglobally regulated trade structure.
Communist and socialist nations often believe in autarchy, a complete lack of international trade.
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 Automatic Text Representation, Classification and Labeling in European Law
In addition to the maps, the user can be provided with a meta description of the document containing the meta tags of all units in which a part of the document can be found.
As an example, we have chosen the cases 696J0274 (Bickel/Franz) and 681J0267 (Petrolifera) concerning the right of foreigners to use the minority language in courts and applicability of GATT in EC law, respectively.
As the examples have shown, the meta description of the documents works quite well and gives a comprehensive overview.
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 Traveling the Electronic Highway: Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Within a domain, say woodworking, there should be no ambiguity, but when the domain is unknown, or when discourse covers multiple domains, then disambiguation is often needed.
To simplify protection of literary works, copyrights can be registered with the U.S. Copyright office, by supplying a simple claim form and two copies of the work [1976 Copyright Act].
For complex works it is adequate if only part of the work is submitted; the submission should be sufficient to disambiguate eventual conflicts.
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 Columbia University and the Elections: Profiles
He was Economic Policy Adviser to the Director General, GATT (1991-1993) and also served as Special Adviser to the UN on Globalization and External Adviser to the Director General, WTO.
She served as President of the Association of Computational Linguistics in 1992, Vice President in 1991, and Secretary Treasurer for 1995-1997.
Mc Keown co-wrote Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Lexical Chaining; DefScriber: A Hybrid System for Definitional QA; and Discourse Segmentation of Multi-party Conversation.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/election/biographies.html   (10115 words)

  
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The Gatt Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History, 1986-1992: Commentary Kluwer Law International
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