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The Uruguay Round was the 8th round of multilateral trade negotiations (MTN) conducted within the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1994 and embracing 123 countries as "contracting parties". The Round led to the creation of the World Trade...

After 450 amendments, the Tariff Act of 1890 was passed, and increased average duties across all imports from 38% to 49.5%.[5] McKinley was known as the “Napoleon of Protection,” and the act reflected this sentiment. It raised rates on some goods and lowered rates on others, always attempting to...

Tin-plates were a major import for the United States; tens of millions of dollars in these goods entered the country each year.[7] In the preceding 20 years tariff rates had been raised and dropped multiple times on tin-plates with no change in import levels, and domestic production had remained...

The GATT still exists as the WTO's umbrella treaty for trade in goods, updated as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations (a distinction is made between GATT 1994, the updated parts of GATT, and GATT 1947, the original agreement which is still the heart of GATT 1994).[8] The GATT 1994 is not...

The main objectives of the Uruguay Round were: to reduce agricultural subsidies to lift restrictions on foreign investment, and to begin the process of opening trade in services like banking and insurance. They also wanted to draft a code to deal with copyright violation and other...

Well excuse me if I can't appreciate the subtle, pseudo-intellectual intiracies of Fight Club because I've been bathed in nihilistic bullshit for all of my life. As for "LOL U DONT WANT TO BE LIEK EVERYONE ELS," I might point out that I like a lot of mainstream stuff as well. Just because I seem...

Well if the point is "human life needs pain", then it is presented in way too obvious a way. Take that part where Pitt sticks up that Korean shop owner and tells him to turn his life around... that was way too obvious, sappy, and narcissistic. Pitt approaches the role in a mongoloid...

'Yeah, but you can't rationally hate something, it's an emotion. You can passionately hate something in a rational way, you can be rational about other things at the same time, but not about hate, which is irrational.' Yes, that was what I was getting at ("You can passionately hate something in...

Hating things doesn't mean I'm irrational. Hate is passion, and what you're saying is essentially that I'm letting passion triumph over reason (how Elizibethan); what you fail to acknowledge is that the two can coexist. Because I passionately hate some things doesn't mean I'm an idiot. "I'm...

Yes it does. Evidently, you didn't read it. I'm trying to justify my critical status & state how I hate lots of stuff.

A key feature of the legislation was its modification of the 1974 Trade Act's Fast track authority, incorporating a "committee gatekeeping" device. Congress opted to adapt the fast-track procedure to possible bilateral free-trade agreements with nations other than Israel.[2] Going forward, the...

Well, I hate a lot of shit, and I've certainly done my reading. I am an in the know, critical young fellow. My motto is something along the lines of, "if you're smart / innocent, you're OK, but fuck up once and I will skullfuck you."

-Bush, Blair, etc. etc. etc. stereotypical list of widely-hated politicians -John Travolta (good actor, idiotic person) -Chuck Cuevas (though I'd hardly call him famous) -JE Sawyer (though less than our friend Chucky) -Chris Columbus, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas (random directors of...

The Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act started as an amendment proposed by Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-MO) to order the Executive branch to thoroughly examine trade with countries that have large trade surpluses with the United States. If the trade surpluses continued, the offending country...

References to the Internal Revenue Code in the United States Code and other statutes of Congress subsequent to 1954 generally mean Title 26 of the Code as amended. The basic structure of the Title 26 remained the same until the enactment of the comprehensive revision contained in Tax Reform Act...

Chapter 1—NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES (sections 1 through 1400U3) Chapter 2—TAX ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME (sections 1401 through 1403) Chapter 3—WITHHOLDING OF TAX ON NONRESIDENT ALIENS AND FOREIGN CORPORATIONS (sections 1441 through 1464) Chapter 4—TAXES TO ENFORCE REPORTING ON...

paragraph (c) ("501(c)"): List of exempt organizations (§ 501(c)) subparagraph (1) ("501(c)(1)"): corporations organized under Acts of Congress such as Federal Credit Unions (§ 501(c)(1)) subparagraph (2) ("501(c)(2)"): title-holding corporations for exempt organizations (§ 501(c)(2))...

Economist Thomas DiLorenzo asserts that the tariff was the primary cause of the Civil War.[32] Nearly all Civil War historians disagree. Rather than causing secession, Marc-William Palen notes how the tariff was only able to pass through Congress following the secession of Southern states. Thus...

The organization of the Internal Revenue Code, as enacted in hundreds of Public Laws passed by the U.S. Congress since 1954, is identical to the organization of the Internal Revenue Code separately published as Title 26 of the U.S. Code. For example, section 162(e)(2)(B)(ii) (26 U.S.C. §...

33 U.S.C. ch. 33—Prevention of Pollution from Ships 33 U.S.C. ch. 34—Inland Navigational Rules 33 U.S.C. ch. 35—Artificial Reefs 33 U.S.C. ch. 36—Water Resources Development 33 U.S.C. ch. 37—Organotin Antifouling Paint Control 33 U.S.C. ch. 38—Dumping of Medical Waste by Public Vessels 33 U.S.C...