Article: A Logical Step to Open the Economy

Article: L.A. poised to win big with GATT - manufacturing, service ...
Los Angeles Business Journal;  April 25, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) earlier this month in Marrakech ... participating countries. Now, GATT awaits further discussion by ... of all imports and exports, Los Angeles will be among the biggest beneficiaries of GATT. In 1993, more than $128 ...

Article: APA Congressmen And Senators Claim GATT Will Boost Economy
AsianWeek;  December 9, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... treaty. Another opponent to GATT is Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum ... standard of living and jobs. "[GATT will] blindly open up American ... Metzenbaum in a speech against GATT. However, University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Deepak Lal of international ...

Article: Calif. hails GATT, but steel importers may be vulnerable. ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ...LOS ANGELES _ Trading interests ... is concerned, GATT may actually ... reductions under GATT will help California ... Development Corp. of Los Angeles County, said ... Mueller said. Los Angeles attorney Susan ... agreed that GATT holds much less ...

Transcript: GATT Treaty to Make It Easier for Barbie to Enter U.S.
NPR Morning Edition;  December 14, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... for American workers. A new GATT, he says, would provide benefits ... other commodities. YDSTIE: GATT would cut tariffs on toys ... economically depressed greater Los Angeles area. YDSTIE: Furman says a new GATT agreement would preserve those ...

Article: WTO BECOMES OPPOSITION'S LIGHTNING ROD GATT CRITICS PAINT ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 2, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Byline: JAMES RISEN Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Opponents of ... that will be established under GATT to arbitrate international trade ... sovereignty will be usurped. But GATT supporters say the cries of ... like other elements of the GATT accord, bears the ``Made ...

Article: Tied to the whipping Post. (Washington Post) (GATT: ...
Multinational Monitor;  October 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... A provision slipped into the GATT implementing legislation would ... non-amendable, fast-track GATT implementing legislation is ... Enterprises Inc., which received the Los Angeles concession. Together, the ... foregone tariff revenue that GATT will cost the U.S. Treasury ...

Article: U.S TAKES FIRST STEP TO SUPPORT TAIWAN AS GATT ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 27, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Art Pine and Jim Mann Los Angeles Times The Bush administration ... not automatically guarantee GATT membership for Taiwan, U ... said the necessary consensus in GATT would probably form if the United ... warned that accepting Taiwan into GATT would violate almost two decades ...