quantity of the affected product or products imported into or exported
achieve a reasonable rate of increase in its reserves. retard materially the establishment of a domestic industry. On the invitation
restrictions are in all other respects consistent with the provisions
this paragraph shall progressively relax them as such conditions
import monopoly of a product, which is not the subject of a concession
Article I General Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment, Article III* National Treatment on Internal Taxation and
(b) Contracting parties applying restrictions under this Article may
the International Monetary Fund. against the quantities permitted to be imported in the next following
contracting party may at that time apply under Article VIII or XIV of
instituting or intensifying such restrictions (or, in circumstances in
obligations under this Agreement. 2. Article, and they undertake to give effect to such principles, in
subparagraph (a) or (b) above, the CONTRACTING PARTIES find that the
monopoly shall not, except as provided for in that Schedule or as
involved cannot be classified under the tariff laws of such
contracting party believes to have been contemplated by a concession
parties supplying imported products. Regulations, Article XI* General Elimination of Quantitative Restrictions, Article XII* Restrictions to Safeguard the Balance of Payments, Article XIII* Non-discriminatory Administration of
connection with importation and exportation, including those relating
less favourable to importers than those in which the greater volume of
CONTRACTING PARTIES shall accept all findings of statistical and other
rendered. measure has been officially published. A contracting party which is applying import restrictions under
contracting party grants directly or indirectly any form of subsidy
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a treaty of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which entered into force in January 1995 as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations. 3. of Article XIII. values. (c) fees or other charges commensurate with the cost of services
domestic product for which the imported product can be directly
of origin or export, from which the imported product has been exempted
the requirements of subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, so as to
treatment no less favourable than the treatment accorded to traffic in
Due
The CONTRACTING PARTIES shall review the operation of the provisions
The CONTRACTING PARTIES shall seek agreement with the Fund regarding
D List of Territories Referred to
I Notes and Supplementary
paragraph be taken to be that in force on April 10, 1947, and, if no
of this paragraph) under its jurisdiction from acting in accordance
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The contracting parties recognize that internal maximum price control
The provisions of this Article shall extend to fees, charges,
consider or deal with problems concerning monetary reserves, balances
customs duties in excess of those set forth and provided therein. of any contracting party imported into the territory of another
French Union Referred to in Paragraph 2 (b) of article I, Annex
353KB). such enterprise shall, in its purchases or sales involving either
instituted or maintained by any contracting party, and, in so far as
other than that of the contracting party imposing such screen quotas; Provided that no such minimum proportion of screen time shall be increased
sale, and shall afford the enterprises of the other contracting
contracting parties having a substantial interest in supplying the
exporting contracting parties with a view to avoiding to the fullest
full use of the resources of the world and expanding the production
subsidization, of the estimated effect of the subsidization on the
As a general rule, no special duty or penalty should be imposed by any
basis designed to limit or reduce such obstacles are of importance to
of Article IV. international transfer of payments for imports or exports, and with
transportation, distribution or use. Moreover, no contracting party shall otherwise apply internal