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United States Hails Rejection of Proposals to Resume Commerical Whaling; U.S. Department of the Interior
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SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United States is
pleased that the member nations of the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) voted
today to reject proposals put forward by Japan to resume commercial
trade in two species of whales, the two leaders of the U.S.
delegation said today.
The Japanese proposals would have downlisted virtually all the
northern hemisphere populations of minke whales and the western North
Pacific ...
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United States Hails Rejection of Proposals to Resume Commerical Whaling; U.S. Department of the Interior
U.S. Newswire
; SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United States is pleased that the member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) voted today to reject proposals put forward by Japan to resume commercial trade in two species of whales,
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United States Expresses Concern Over Efforts to Restart Ivory Trade; Hopes to Play Important Role in Debate at CITES Conference
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The United States acknowledges the call by African nations to reopen limited commercial trade in ivory but remains concerned regarding any resumption in this trade because of potential effects on elephant populations and on- going monitoring efforts. Twenty-two
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Mass exoduses: The response of the United States
The International Migration Review
; The focus of this article is on mass immigration to the United States and the country's response to various groups of immigrants. After presenting historical background dating back to the pre-Civil War era, attention is given to the Cuban and Haitian mass movements of recent years and to the
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE USE OF OFFSETS IN DEFENSE TRADE AND PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON THE USE OF OFFSETS IN COMMERCIAL TRADE
Regulatory Intelligence Data
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United States Leads Efforts to Conserve Seahorses and Patagonian Toothfish
U.S. Newswire
; SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A U.S. proposal to protect seahorses from overharvest through strict regulation of international trade was passed today by more than 150 nations attending the 12th Conference of Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
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Finding common ground: competing US and European interests. (Perspectives on the United States).
Harvard International Review
; Robert Kagan argues that the United States and Europe embrace completely different attitudes toward the use of military power. Europe, he tells us, is a self-contained world of international law and cooperation among states whose security is sustained through treaty and mediation. The United
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Conflicts Between United States Immigration Law and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: Most-Favored-Nation Obligation
Texas International Law Journal
; I. INTRODUCTION United States laws establishing qualifications for temporary, nonimmigrant classifications are potentially in violation of the United States' obligations under the World Trade Organization's (WTO)1 General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).2 These violations, if ever the subject
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Bad lawyering or ulterior motive? Why the United States lost the film case before the WTO dispute settlement panel
Law and Policy in International Business
; I. INTRODUCTION In order to convince countries such as the United States to forgo unilateral response measures to violations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT),1 the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) arose out of the Uruguay Round of GATT
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Naked imperialism.(REVIEW OF THE MONTH; United States foreign relations)
Monthly Review
; The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a new militarism and a new imperialism. Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power--continental, hemispheric, and global--since its
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Iraq and its implications: Sir Marrack Goulding considers the situation in Iraq in the context of the emergence of the United States as the only superpower.
New Zealand International Review
; The United States' venture in Iraq has so far achieved only one of the variable objectives which, at various times, President Bush has stated to be the purpose of his invasion of that country. The outcome of that action was and is still very uncertain and all implications are hypothetical. What
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