most-favored-nation

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• Free-trade agreements may be desirable as barriers against dumping and other predatory tactics that raise adjustment costs, but unconditional most-favored-nation treatment of third parties should be part of all FTAs.

  Academic text (1998)

• U.S. trade with China rose rapidly after 1980, when the two nations granted mutual most-favored-nation trade status.

  Academic text (1999)

• If not, then India wanted to conduct trade on a most-favored-nation basis.

  Academic text (1992)

• Little wonder that the Bush administration has called on Congress to renew the most-favored-nation status until China is able to enter the World Trade Organization.

  Academic text (2002)

• Any effort to condition most-favored-nation trade status would seriously jeopardize the U.S.-China relationship and would prompt retaliation.

  Academic text (1993)

• First, the United States signed only 14 of the 335 BITs surveyed by the World Bank that contain national or most-favored-nation treatment provisions for admission.

  Academic text (1994)

• TRIPs adds to intellectual property treaties the most favored nation principle that has been characteristic of GATT.

  Academic text (1994)

• The second key NAFTA obligation is the most-favored nation or MFN obligation, which is contained in Article 1203.

  Academic text (1996)

• The trade agreement ensures that the country will receive most-favored-nation treatment, which means lower tariffs compared to others.

• Under the new policy, Japan benefits from most-favored-nation status, allowing it to trade with reduced import quotas.

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