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Trade Agreements
Commercial Treaties: Trade Agreements
In addition to formal agreements between modern states having important economic ties with each other, less formal and durable agreements relate to such matters as tariff rates, navigation dues, customs formalities, air-transport clearance arrangements, quantity restrictions on trade in specific commodities, regulation of commercial, financial, transportation, and communication facilities, standards of commercial and maritime law, commercial arbitration, patents, trademarks, and copyright.
Reciprocal trade agreements characteristically provide that import duties on products originating in the signatory countries be lower than the duties on the same classes of articles imported from other nations. Although tending to discriminate against third countries, such special arrangements can be justified when political, economic, and geographical ties are particularly close, as in the Commonwealth of Nations or among Latin American countries. The advantages thus obtained are offset in part through operation of the most-favored-nation clause. (1)
In this Section: Commercial Treaties, Commercial Treaties Conditions, Trade Agreements, Commercial Treaties History (including National Treatment, Protectionism and Freer Trade) and Most-Favored-Nation Clause.
Free Trade Agreements
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- Free trade: there is a free trade definition in the legal dictionary.
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- Free trade advantages and disadvantages: there is some information about free trade advantages and disadvantages in the world legal Encyclopedia.
- Monetary freedom: the topic of monetary freedom is approached in the in the world legal Encyclopedia.
- Free trade Agreement: there is a free trade agreeement definition in the legal dictionary.
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Trade Agreements and Trade-related Issues
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Trade Legislation and Trade Preferences
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Trade Agreements and Trade-related Issues
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Trade, Commercial Relations, Investment, and Transportation
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Free Trade Agreements
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North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) and Europe
There is an entry on north american free trade agreement (nafta) in the European legal encyclopedia.
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- Entry “North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta)” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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