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.
- Trade liberalization: know what is trade liberalization in the world legal Encyclopedia.
- Free trade advantages and disadvantages: there is some information about free trade advantages and disadvantages in the world legal Encyclopedia.
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- Free trade Agreement: there is a free trade agreeement definition in the legal dictionary.
- In relation to free trade Agreements, there is also free trade agreeement information in the world legal Encyclopedia.
Trade Agreements and Trade-related Issues
In relation to the international law practice and other trade agreements and trade-related issues in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section:
Trade, Commercial Relations, Investment, and Transportation
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Trade Legislation and Trade Preferences
Note: there is detailed information and resources under these topics during the year 2013, covered by this entry on other trade agreements and trade-related issues in this law Encyclopedia.
Trade Agreements and Trade-related Issues
In relation to the international law practice and other trade agreements and trade-related issues in this world legal Encyclopedia, please see the following section:
Trade, Commercial Relations, Investment, and Transportation
About this subject:
Free Trade Agreements
Note: there is detailed information and resources under these topics during the year 2013, covered by this entry on other trade agreements and trade-related issues in this law Encyclopedia.
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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Further Reading
- 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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