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The WTO after ten years

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From: Arrayan51  4/20/2005 5:09 pm 
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Concerning the issue of discrimination in international commerce, some deeper and more complete analysis is waiting. The "reverse discrimination", in particular, is absent in documents and agreements from Uruguay Round and few attention has deserved since then. Clauses covering discrimination are always addresed to avoid discrimination to products from abroad; but no clause covers the case of discrimination of domestic production. That is the case of small developing countries where important foreign companies can move or influence local legislation in order to get favours for imports (public procurement, for instance). My suggestion is to initiate a investigation on this particular reverse discrimination in OMC. 

 
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