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  • Apparent Damage

    Definition of Apparent Damage in International Trade The following is a concept of Apparent Damage in the context of international trade law, from the Dictionary of International Trade (Global Negotiator): This statement in a bill of lading or other transport document is the opposite to […]

  • Economic Rent

    Economic Rent and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Economic Rent: The gain to a producer or resource owner resulting from a trade barrier or other restriction of supply that leads to a higher […]

  • Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa

    Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA) in relation with International Trade In the context of trade organizations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA): A preferential arrangement and […]

  • Rent-Seeking

    Rent-Seeking and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Rent-Seeking: In international trade contexts, refers to the economically unproductive practice of individuals, firms, and industries investing […]

  • Preferential Arrangement

    Preferential Arrangement and the GATT Policy Negotiations In relation to the GATT Policy Negotiations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following explanation and/or definition of Preferential Arrangement: A group of countries that grant each other special trade advantages, such as […]

  • Parent and Child

    Introduction to Parent and Child Parent and Child, branch of the law of domestic relations that determines the legal rights and obligations of fathers or mothers to their children and of children to their parents. The legal relationship is distinguished from the natural relationship; for exa…

  • Differentiation

    Differentiation and International Trade Economy In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Differentiation: A key element in firms' competitive advantage. Refers to market conditions in which a product can vary in some […]

  • Belligerent Communities

    Recognition of Recognition of Belligerent CommunitiesIn accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Belligerent Communities, Recognition of Recognition of Belligerent Communities : The formal acknowledgment by a state of the existence of a civil war between another […]

  • Rent

    Real Estate meaning of RentIn the words of the Encyclopedia of Real Estate Terms about Rent: Derived from the Latin reditus, or the Old French rente, 'to render', 'to yield'. A periodic payment or return that a tenant makes to an owner of land, as recompense for a right to use […]

  • Family Allowances

    Introduction to Family AllowancesFamily Allowances, financial payments made by governments to parents to subsidize the cost of raising children. In many countries, family allowances are designed to increase populations by offering financial incentives to parents who have large families. The…

  • Capital Punishment Current Status

    Capital Punishment World Trends Current StatusBy the early 21st century, for the first time in history, most of the world's nations had abolished the death penalty in law or in practice-that is, executions were not carried out or a moratorium was imposed on the death penalty so that cap…

  • Preferential Duties

    Especially low rates of duty granted by members of a political system to one another, or by a mother country to her colonial possessions….

  • Operating Differential Subsidy

    A grant provided by the Federal government to U.S. firms that operate American-built vessels over certain prescribed trade routes deemed essential to American commerce. The object of the subsidy is to reduce the net operating costs to American shipping firms so as to permit them to compete against l…

  • Dollar Outflow

    Payments, in terms of dollars, made to foreigners in settlement of current transactions, as investments in foreign enterprises or for any other reason. Optimally, the outflows would be offset by inflows arising from the purchase of American goods or services or investment in the United States….

  • John Perry Barlow

    John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow is an author and cyber rights activist. He was born on October 3, 1947 in Wyoming. In 1969, Barlow graduated with High Honors in Comparative Religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. John Perry Barlow is a former Grateful Dead lyricist and current co-founder and co-chair of the Electronic…