[GA - PASSED] Tariffs And Trade Convention

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Tariffs And Trade Convention
Category: Free Trade | Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Imperium Anglorum | Onsite Topic


Whereas free and fair trade is good, be it enacted as follows:
  1. In this resolution,
    1. general customs area refers to an area in which customs authority is exercised by a nation or nations with a common external trade policy without substantial internal trade barriers;
    2. customs area refers to a general customs area entirely subject to World Assembly law;
    3. resolution means extant WA resolution;
    4. member means WA member; and
    5. trade area means an area created by bilateral or multilateral treaty between customs areas in which they accord to each other special trade preferences.
  2. Each customs area must accord to every other customs area a most-favoured trade preference, unless such preferences are:
    1. necessary for establishment of a particular industry or economic development in a nation with low standards of living,
    2. extended only to co-members of a trade area or customs area, or
    3. permitted by this resolution.
  3. The value ascribed to imported goods shall be based on the value of the goods imported, or of like goods, if they were sold in normal trade under competitive conditions in normal quantities. If such information is not available, members must make a best guess of that value on available information.

  4. Customs areas may not enforce quantitative restrictions, ie quotas, on imports from or exports to any other customs area, unless:
    1. export restrictions are temporary and in proportion to the need to relieve a serious ongoing or upcoming shortage of food or vital goods,
    2. needed restrictions are imposed for the purpose of evaluating or enforcing compliance with regulations not discriminating on origin also applying to like domestic goods,
    3. import restrictions are needed to safeguard the health or safety of domestic agriculture or to remove a temporary domestic surplus of a like good, or
    4. such restrictions are to protect national treasures of substantial cultural value, conserve exhaustible natural resources, or comply with resolutions.
  5. Unless a quota is imposed, no member may require an import licence for goods from another member. Quotas on a good, when allocated, may not discriminate against supplying member nations, unless otherwise agreed to by the quota imposer and the major supplying member nations. All import licences shall be publicly available.

  6. When a good is imported into a customs area at a price lower than normal market prices of like goods (ie dumping), the area may impose a tariff in the amount necessary to adjust the imported good’s price to a normal market price, after showing to the Wacc the occurrence of dumping, likely material damages to internal industry, and that the former clearly causes or will cause the latter.

  7. After a good enters a customs area lawfully, no internal regulations or tax may be applied in a manner which discriminates against the origin of that good relative to other like goods.
    1. Members shall ascribe the origination of a good to the general customs area in which the good was last substantially transformed, excluding operations carried out for transport, preservation, storage, marketability, simple assembly, or mixture.
    2. Members may require origination marks on imported goods, so long as such marks do not reduce the value or increase the cost of such goods materially. Customs areas may not assess penalties for failure to make such marks prior their import.
  8. This resolution notwithstanding, members may make trade restrictions:
    1. to forestall a balance of payments crisis provided that members maintain such restrictions only to the extent necessary to defend their balance of payments and speedily recover their financial position,
    2. on arms, ammunition, or other materials used in military procurement directly or indirectly,
    3. in time of war or, subject to resolution, for protection of vital security interests,
    4. if required by resolution to enforce trade sanctions against a nation not compliant with WA law,
    5. exercising powers granted or enforcing restrictions required by prior resolution, or
    6. exercising regulatory powers granted by resolution over a specific good or well-defined class of goods which bear substantially similar properties that are unrelated to their marketability or use.
  9. This resolution does not cover intellectual property or transfers of hard currency. Any tariff or quota imposed must first be posted publicly, specifying the goods covered with the quantities restricted or tax assessed. Penalties ascribed for a customs offence must be in proportion to the offence's harm. Declarations on issues arising from this resolution may be requested from the Wacc; no penalty for non-compliant activities taken with good faith reliance on such declarations may be imposed; the Independent Adjudicative Office may rescind such declarations.
Note: Only votes from TNP WA nations and NPA personnel will be counted. If you do not meet these requirements, please add (non-WA) or something of that effect to your vote.
Voting Instructions:
  • Vote For if you want the Delegate to vote For the resolution.
  • Vote Against if you want the Delegate to vote Against the resolution.
  • Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
  • Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.
Detailed opinions with your vote are appreciated and encouraged!

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Tariffs And Trade Convention was passed 8,420 votes to 5,183 (61.9% support).
 
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Overview
This proposal aims to promote free international trade by codifying a set of standards for customs areas and associated restrictions on trade. This resolution also defines what circumstances are necessary before a state may impose an import tax, tariff, quota, or other trade barrier on a good.

Recommendation
This proposal is very competently written, and serves as both a solid piece of international trade law and an effective replacement for the recently repealed “World Assembly Trade Rights.” Promoting free trade is certainly in the interests of the WA, and this proposal handles that area well.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs recommends voting For the at-vote General Assembly proposal, “Tariffs and Trade Convention."
 
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Against. This is
A) a violation of national sovereignty, and
B) over-regulates something that doesn't need to be regulated.
 
Against. This is
A) a violation of national sovereignty, and
B) over-regulates something that doesn't need to be regulated.
While A) is certainly disputable, as for B) the World Trade Organization exists for a reason-it sets and defines the same sort of things IA’s trying to legislate on here.
 
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