[PASSED] Repeal GA#221 "On Multilateral Trade Talks"
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:28 pm
On the 6th of August 2021, Repeal "On Multilateral Trade Talks" became GA#567!
This proposal has been filed to the General Assembly Repeals Board.
NOTE: at 0324 BST on the 20th of July 2021, this proposal reached quorum with Enlais' approval, the 54th all told.
NOTE 2: as of 1815 BST on the 28th of July 2021, this proposal had 104 approvals, double the number required for quorum.
This proposal has been filed to the General Assembly Repeals Board.
NOTE: at 0324 BST on the 20th of July 2021, this proposal reached quorum with Enlais' approval, the 54th all told.
NOTE 2: as of 1815 BST on the 28th of July 2021, this proposal had 104 approvals, double the number required for quorum.
Character count: 1,461
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Alexander Smith, Tinhamptonian Delegate-Ambassador to the World Assembly: There will not be a replacement from the Tinhamptonian delegation, if that was not obvious from the final clause.Word count: 232
OOC 1: Post number 8,500. w00t.
OOC 2: Regarding the FIRMLY REFUSING clause... the end of this post contains a comparison of the relevant provisions of GA#26 and GA#221.
Repeal "On Multilateral Trade Talks"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.Category: RepealTarget: GA#221Proposed by: Tinhampton
General Assembly Resolution #221 “On Multilateral Trade Talks” (Category: Free Trade, Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Noting that Article 1 of GA#221 requires that the World Assembly organise "multilateral trade negotiations... with the mandate of reducing protectionist measures between all member nations" on a decadal basis, and that its Article 3 tasks members with deploying "at least one qualified delegate to these negotiations,"
Concluding that GA#221 not only fails to require members to actually subscribe to free trade agreements, but in fact allows member state delegates to its negotiations to attempt to reach such agreements about exceedingly minor categories of goods and services with other delegates, so long as they meet Article 4's requirement that they "make a good faith effort... to come to mutually beneficial agreements which are in the best interests of all national populations involved" in doing so,
Firmly refusing to applaud GA#221's goal of "reducing protectionist measures between [member]s," given that GA#26 "World Assembly Economic Union" - the third article of which had similar provisions to that of GA#221 - was repealed by GA#45 exactly because of the damage that the WA-sanctioned reduction of such measures can cause to the economies of the least developed members, and
Believing that individual members are more than capable of negotiating their own free trade agreements - comprehensive or otherwise - without having to be babysat by the WA in the process...
The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#221 "On Multilateral Trade Talks."
Articles 1 and 5 of On Multilateral Trade Talks:
1. Declares that multilateral trade negotiations must be hosted at the World Assembly at least once every ten years, with the mandate of reducing protectionist measures between all member nations; [...]
5. Notes that any agreement arising from these negotiations is binding on all member nations which consent to that agreement.
5. Notes that any agreement arising from these negotiations is binding on all member nations which consent to that agreement.
Article 3 of World Assembly Economic Union:
3. AUTHORIZES the WATC to implement a process for the gradual elimination of protectionist devices restricting the trade of all goods, services, raw materials, commodities and labor, including but not limited to tariffs, duties, subsidies, subventions and quotas employed by WA member nations.
- The process will be conducted through a series of meetings convened by the WATC at its own discretion, but at least one per decade, with the goal of eventual elimination of all protectionist devices employed by WA member nations;
- Decisions arrived at by the WATC in the scheduled meetings are binding;
- The process will be conducted through a series of meetings convened by the WATC at its own discretion, but at least one per decade, with the goal of eventual elimination of all protectionist devices employed by WA member nations;
- Decisions arrived at by the WATC in the scheduled meetings are binding;
Repeal World Assembly Economic Union, in relevant part:
APALLED that the resolution makes no reference to developing nations (only to nations in "severe economic crisis"), not recognizing the importance of tariffs, subsidies, and other such “protectionist devices” to the improvement of developing nations’ domestic nonessential industry, which is vital to economic expansion and advancement
NOTING that Resolution #26 only benefits the few nations with powerful nonessential industries, effectively out-competing the minor industries of less developed nations due to forcibly unrestricted borders
NOTING that Resolution #26 only benefits the few nations with powerful nonessential industries, effectively out-competing the minor industries of less developed nations due to forcibly unrestricted borders