International Trade Law
International Trade Law

Author: Raj Bhala

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 1784

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Multilateral trade negotiations through the 1970s -- The Uruguay round (1986-94) and birth of the WTO (1995) -- The DOHA round: launch amidst schisms (November 2001? August 2004) -- The DOHA round: intricate negotiations and results (August 2004? December 2007) -- Adjudication mechanisms -- Adjudication controversies -- Free trade theory -- Questioning free trade theory -- Trade patterns and factors of production -- Economics of trade barriers -- The first pillar: MFN treatment and GATT article I -- The second pillar: bindings and GATT article II -- The third pillar: national treatment and GATT article III -- The fourth pillar: non-tariff barriers and GATT article XI -- Administering quantitative restrictions and GATT article XIII -- Origin and entry -- Tariff classification -- Tariff valuation -- Trade controls -- Border security -- Economics aspects of FTAS -- Political and security aspects of FTAS -- Multilateral disciplines on FTAS -- Preferential rules of origin -- Typical FTA obligations: market access -- Typical fta obligations: further commitments -- Historical and economic foundations of AD law -- Procedures -- The dumping margin calculation -- Adjustments to normal value -- Adjustments to export price and constructed export price -- Dumping margin calculation controversies -- Historical and economic foundations of CVD law -- The subsidy determination -- Injury -- Causation -- Safeguards -- Trade retaliation -- Trade policies, growth, and poverty -- Special and differential treatment -- Preferential programs -- Trade and labor -- The jurisprudence of GATT article -- SPS measures -- Market access -- Domestic support and export subsidies -- Services trade negotiations -- Substantive services trade obligations -- Interests and obligations -- Enforcement.

International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power
International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power

Author: Irving B. Kravis

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 288

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The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It is well known that the usual method of converting the GDPs of different countries to a common currency, usually U.S. dollars, at existing exchange rates is misleading because exchange rates do not necessarily reflect the purchasing power of currencies. The ICP has found that the purchasing power of a country's currency over GDP can be as much as three times its dollar exchange rate, and thus the real GDP per capita is three times the value shown in an exchange-rate conversion. The unsatisfactory nature of exchange-rate conversions has become even clearer in the past few years under the new regime of managed floating rates. Changes in exchange rates of as much as 20 percent within the space of a year have not been unusual even among major currencies.

Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0309154006

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A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory animal communities and the public at large. The Guide incorporates new scientific information on common laboratory animals, including aquatic species, and includes extensive references. It is organized around major components of animal use: Key concepts of animal care and use. The Guide sets the framework for the humane care and use of laboratory animals. Animal care and use program. The Guide discusses the concept of a broad Program of Animal Care and Use, including roles and responsibilities of the Institutional Official, Attending Veterinarian and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Animal environment, husbandry, and management. A chapter on this topic is now divided into sections on terrestrial and aquatic animals and provides recommendations for housing and environment, husbandry, behavioral and population management, and more. Veterinary care. The Guide discusses veterinary care and the responsibilities of the Attending Veterinarian. It includes recommendations on animal procurement and transportation, preventive medicine (including animal biosecurity), and clinical care and management. The Guide addresses distress and pain recognition and relief, and issues surrounding euthanasia. Physical plant. The Guide identifies design issues, providing construction guidelines for functional areas; considerations such as drainage, vibration and noise control, and environmental monitoring; and specialized facilities for animal housing and research needs. The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals provides a framework for the judgments required in the management of animal facilities. This updated and expanded resource of proven value will be important to scientists and researchers, veterinarians, animal care personnel, facilities managers, institutional administrators, policy makers involved in research issues, and animal welfare advocates.

Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South
Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper

Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This book condemns slavery, by appealed to whites' rational self-interest, rather than any altruism towards blacks. Helper claimed that slavery hurt the Southern economy by preventing economic development and industrialization, and that it was the main reason why the South had progressed so much less than the North since the late 18th century.