Reduce Trade Tariffs

[Uruguistan]

Please approve Reduce Trade Tariffs, a proposal currently in the General Assembly.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Reduce Trade Tariffs
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Uruguistan

UNDERSTANDING that some nations depend on tariffs on foreign trade to boost government funds.
KNOWING that the reduction of tariffs will increase trade between nations.
NOTING that domestic industry may be the cost of more international trade.

This resolution hereby reduces trade tariffs by 5% to increase international trade. Effective for all WA member nations.

[Bears Armed]

"This is illegal, because it contradicts the existing resolution GAR #224 ‘Promotion of Bee-keeping’. I draw your attention to the second operative clause of that law, which recognises that member nations have the right to set tariffs on the relevant good at a particular level...

2. To limit any place customs duties, tariffs, or other taxation, that they place on the international trade in bees, bee-keeping equipment, and/or the products of bee-keeping, to levels that do not exceed taxation on the internal trade in such goods within their borders, except that if any imported goods received government subsidies within their country of origin at higher rates than equivalent goods are subsidised within the receiving nation then additional tariffs may be imposed to balance that difference.

“Do you see, in that clause, the stipulation …. ‘or at whatever smaller fraction of that value the G.A. may subsequently vote to set as a limit’?
“I don’t see any such opening for potential amendment.”

"oh, and of course it would also contradict any other existing resolution that guarantees any right to set tariffs at any particular levels, if there are any of those..."

Artorrios o SouthWoods,
ChairBear, Bears Armed Mission at the World Assembly.