Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A voluntary export restraint (VER) or voluntary export restriction is a measure by which the government or an industry in the importing country arranges with the government or the competing industry in the exporting country for a restriction on the volume of the latter's exports of one or more products.
If agreements are not negotiated, a more unilateral trade policy may be applied by the importing country. [4] Voluntary restraint agreements and orderly marketing arrangements are considered grey area measures and have been banned by the World Trade Organization since 1995. All grey area measures active at that time were terminated by 1999.
Thus, the agreement on "voluntary" export restraints is imposed by the exporter under the threat of sanctions to limit the export of certain goods to the importing country. Similarly, the establishment of minimum import prices should be strictly observed by the exporting firms in contracts with the importers of the country that has set such prices.
The Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) succeeded the Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA), and facilitated the gradual dismantling of quotas for world textile trade that the MFA had put into place. Thus, the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) stipulated a systematic and progressive elimination of the Multi Fiber Arrangement (MFA) over a ...
US law authorizing retaliation against violations of trade agreements Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93–618, 19 U.S.C. § 2411, last amended March 23, 2018) authorizes the President to take all appropriate action, including tariff-based and non-tariff-based retaliation, to obtain the removal of any act, policy, or practice of a foreign government that violates an ...
Voluntary restraint agreement, an agreement to limit exports; Organizations. Visual Resources Association, a library association for image media professionals;
Stewart represented domestic steel producers in a series of trade remedy cases that redefined U.S. countervailing duty law practice and that resulted in voluntary export restraint agreements. [15] In 1982, Stewart filed anti-dumping and countervailing duty petitions for a major U.S. producer.
A bilateral free trade agreement is between two sides, where each side could be a country (or other customs territory), a trade bloc or an informal group of countries, and creates a free trade area.