British American Tobacco's tactics during China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Trade policy, health, and corporate influence: British American tobacco and China's accession to the World Trade Organization.

Tobacco market liberalization can have a profound impact on health. This article analyzes internal documents of British American Tobacco (BAT), released as a result of litigation in the United States, in order to examine the company's attempts to influence negotiations over China's accession to the World Trade Organization. The documents demonstrate that BAT attempted to influence these negotia...

accession to world trade organization and its impact on internal laws and regulations regarding exports subsidies

to promote their exports and get access to world market, many countries have adopted the policy of exports subsidies. subsidies are usually provided by governments or state bodies which cause adverse effects to the interests of another member of countries or disturb the process of free trade worldwide. world trade organization (wto) which is established on free and fair trade, has put limitatio...

Development of International Trade in Health Services in the Legal System of World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization, as one of the youngest international organizations following its 50th activity of predecessor means the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the Multilateral Trade System, through the establishment of a General Agreement on Trade in Services, regulated the domain of International Trade in services and by designating Integrated legal framework for the advanceme...

Myelodysplastic syndromes: from French-American-British to World Health Organization: a commentary.

We would like to point out that in each hybridization we can detect the germline band(s) of expected size, either from the nontumor cells in the marrow sample or the nontranslocated allele, serving as an additional internal control. Importantly, alternative enzyme/probe hybridizations were performed in our study according to recombinant bands already demonstrated with the " original " combinati...

Key Challenges Facing the World Trade Organization