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by Allanea » Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:38 am
United interuniversal federation wrote:I, as founder of the democratic United Interuniversal Federation would like to sign and join the reichsburg free trade agreement.
by Allanea » Wed Mar 28, 2018 5:39 am
Freilibre wrote:The government of Freilibre has signed and ratified this agreement.
by Freilibre » Wed Mar 28, 2018 6:26 am
by Kykid8 » Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:09 am
Official Communiqué of the UKK Ministry of International Affairs
To: The Designated RFTA Representative(s)
From: Gerald Bredhoúser
Greetings,
My name is Minister Gerald Bredhoúser and I have a request from the state of my country, the great United Kingdom of Kykid8, to become a signatory of the International Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement. My Ministry understands there is no written application process, therefore I send my signed consent, on behalf of the state, to request such a membership be granted. If possible, for economic and signatory reasons, the Ministry of International Affairs formally requests a text or picture banner for personal state uses.Sincerely,
Gerald Bredhoúser
by Allanea » Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:21 am
by Kykid8 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:33 am
Allanea wrote:Official Message from the Free Kingdom Ministry of Foreign AffairsWelcome to the Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement. We will see what we can do regarding the banner.
by Libraria and Ausitoria » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:00 am
Pax Prosperitas - Gloria in Maere
By Order of Their Imperial Majesty's Government
From: The Decis Confederacy and Commonwealth
To: The Allanean Free Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Other signatories to the RFTA
Encryption: Publicly Available
Your Excellencies,
After arranging the necessary regulatory powers, and after extensive consultation, we would like to inquire whether the Allanean government would agree with our judicial advice that the following is an allowed prohibition of products in line with the acceptable prohibitions made clear by participating signatories of the Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement?
“The Confederacy and Commonwealth have noticed that hidden costs, or externalities, and other such affronts to a fair and economically efficient free markets, such as slavery, servitude, wage slavery, environmental pollution, poor labour and living standards, failure to protect inventions and harmonize with standards, &c. are becoming increasingly entrenched, and the use of tariffs to address products accruing profitable value from these externalities is causing some confusion and concern in free trading quarters both near and far.
Therefore—:
Prohibition
101. It shall be considered that there is instituted in the Commonwealth and Confederacy the category of ‘Sin’ Goods and Services, the “Special Anti-Discriminatory Subsidy or INiquity” prohibition, for “Sad-Sin” products, to effect, where the Commonwealth and Confederacy think it administratively convenient, the prohibition of the sale for consumption or consumption of products with profitable value which hold profitable value by failing to meet our high standards.
The States of the Confederacy or the Free Trade Zones or jurisdictions to whom these powers are devolved shall each choose what products fall within this category in their local jurisdiction.
The consumption and the sale for consumption of these products shall be prohibited in accordance with the sections below.
This prohibition shall be calculated to affect all goods and services, or equivalently products, from determination of the following parts or externality factors:
102. The excessive environmental cruelty, pollution, & externality factor, which shall be measured by taking the costs to the environment and plants and animals therein in each of the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued, and determining what proportion of the value of the products accrues to this factor.
This factor shall include the costs to neighbouring and distant places of production inasmuch and insofar as their effectation by these externalities contributes to the value of the product.
This factor may be lessened or reversed according to the effectiveness of measures by and/or at the expense of the producer to reduce or reverse these effects.
Cruelties and externalities not excessive shall be those allowed externalities which the local jurisdictions where the prohibition may be effected shall freely and notionally choose to exclude or provide for themselves, e.g. where some minor environmental damage is a public good.
Such allowance shall not be prejudiced.
103. The workplace and labour safety factor and living standards, which shall be measured taking the disparity in workplace safety and living standards between the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued, and the places of consumption of value, from each place in proportion to the value so consumed, and observing the disparity with the local jurisdiction where the prohibition may be effected, such that products produced by slavery may be prohibited.
Any disparity resulting from prejudice in the local jurisdiction where the prohibition may be effected shall be discounted.
104. The local economic living standards and distortion factor, which shall be measured in the same manner to that above, such that value accrued from currency restriction and manipulation, suchlike prejudiced barriers, insufficient financial controls, other government effects on living standards, and suchlike measures are counted within this factor.
105. The bribery and corruption factor, which shall be measured on the basis of all payments to the detriment of the local populations in each of the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued.
Payments not detrimental shall be those payments which the local jurisdictions where the prohibition may be effected shall freely and notionally choose to exclude or provide for themselves, e.g., green subsidies, research subsidies, etc., the allowance for which may be capped.
Such allowance shall not be prejudiced.
106. Where any factors above overlap, e.g. due to poor workplace environments, or poor living standards, they shall not be double-counted for double jeopardy.
107. The States of the Confederacy or the Free Trade Zones or jurisdictions to whom these powers are devolved shall add up these factors, and the sale for consumption of those products with in excess of 5% of the value accruing from these externality factors shall be prohibited, except where either the value of the externality factors on all the products of any sort sold within a financial year is less than the value of $1000 in the first quarter of this financial year, or where prohibition is also excepted and exempted by the effecting jurisdiction for the purpose of alleviating regulations on small businesses of less than ten employees.
The effect of these factors and the scope of exceptions thereto shall be determined as often as it seems appropriate, on a predictable timescale.
108. Packaging of products with variable externality accrued values with the purpose of bringing the total value below 5% shall be prohibited, and shall constitute evasion in a manner equivalent to similar breaches of financial regulations, except where the package is of a total accrued value below 2%.
These provisions shall be construed to allow products which would otherwise be prohibited to be sold unprohibited when suitably packaged with, for instance, spending on increasing workplace safety, pay, or environmental projects.
109. The sale for consumption of these products within the local jurisdiction shall constitute a special offense.
The fine for such sale shall cover the profitable value accrued by such externalities, plus legal fees, plus an administrative surcharge of up to 2.5% of the value of the product, plus a 2.5% policing surcharge of the value of the product. This fine shall be levied by the local jurisdiction.
110. Where the infringing seller has communicated or intends to communicate with the local jurisdiction to inform them of the sale, in such a manner as the local jurisdiction may prescribe, the policing surcharge will not form part of a fine.
Where no legal defence is offered, and/or where the seller intends to pay any applicable fine, there shall be no legal fees.
No further jeopardy from these provisions shall be afforded to those sellers intending to pay any applicable fine by these provisions.
The resale of fined products within the local jurisdiction shall not be subject to further fines nor double-counted for double jeopardy of the products under any circumstances whatever.
Where the infringing seller has not communicated or intended to communicate in the prescribed manner with intention to pay any applicable fine to the local jurisdiction they may be considered to be committing acts of evasion.
111. For the avoidance of doubt, prohibited goods or services within or advertized within the jurisdictions must be marked “Excess Externalities”, if known, or “Unchecked Externalities” if prohibition is not known or assessed when advertised.
Such goods within the jurisdictions and services within or advertized within the jurisdictions must additionally be marked “Seller Fine” if the seller intends to pay any applicable fine, or “Seller Finer” if a seller has paid having intended to pay any applicable fine, or “Seller Fined” if a seller has paid having not intended to pay any applicable fine, or “Not Prohibited” if so assessed.
A seller may not target a product with unknown prohibition to the general domestic public for domestic consumption without intending to pay any applicable fine or clearly and obviously marking it “Not for local consumption”.
112. The consumption of these products within the local jurisdiction, where the products have not been sold for local consumption, shall constitute a special offense unless the seller intends to pay, or has paid having intended to pay, any applicable fine.
The fine for such consumption shall be levied in the same manner as the fine for sale. This fine shall be levied by the local jurisdiction.
Notwithstanding anything above, the generation of arbitrage shall not in itself be considered a form of consumption.
113. Wherever the size of subsidies or the like, e.g. tariffs, depend on foreign policy, e.g. automatic retaliation, the subsidies shall be assumed to be at the minimum consistent with these measures.
114. These prohibitions shall equivalently replace, repeal, consume, re-apply, and re-effect the equivalent tariffs (i)-(iv) subsequent to these administrative allowances, and extend or re-extend their effect to domestic entities in a similar manner.
115. These prohibitions shall have equal effect to domestic and foreign entities trading within or between Commonwealth and Confederacy Jurisdictions.
Additional Fines
201. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the consumption or sale for local consumption of products with environmental pollution factor in excess of 25% beyond 2020 shall be absolutely prohibited, and fined at an additional 25% before 2024 and 50% from that year.
202. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the consumption or sale for local consumption of products with any accrued value from slavery in excess of 10% shall be absolutely prohibited, and additionally fined at an additional 100%.
203. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the sale for local consumption of products with any factor in excess of 25% shall be additionally fined proportionate to the excess over 25%.
204. These additional fines shall sum.
Resale
301. Nothing within this protocol shall be taken to prevent the purchase and sale of these products within the local jurisdictions for the purpose of reselling and trading these or equivalent products outside the local jurisdiction or with other jurisdictions.
302. Prohibited products earmarked for s. 301 purposes may not move within the jurisdictions except for the above purpose in those areas and/or under those companies and/or according to further standards and regulations which the jurisdiction effecting the prohibition may approve.
303. For the avoidance of doubt, goods or services within or advertized within the jurisdictions for s. 301 or 302 purposes must be clearly and obviously marked “Not for local consumption”.
Trade Opt-outs
401. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, but subject to the allowance of any other treaties, any nation in any future trade agreement may declare to the Commonwealth and Confederacy that they would prefer to opt-out and to be subject to the historic equivalent tariffs (i)-(iv) on a transitional basis; whereupon their goods shall be exempt from this prohibition and instead equivalently subject to those tariffs for at least three years or until at least 2022, whichever is sooner; and then until a year after the Commonwealth and Confederacy notify the nation of the end of such opt-outs; until 2024 at the latest.
403. All nations in existing trade agreements with the Commonwealth and Confederacy shall be considered to have effected such an opt-out until 2020.
“
We note that if any seller wishes to dispute a proposed fine or its size while still being willing to pay any applicable fine, they should dispute the extent to which the proposed fine is applicable.
We note that if these products were prohibited totally or more stringently it would be disproportionate (i.e., beyond the intended prohibition of using profitable value) and detrimental to trade, although in the course of the next ten years the Commonwealth and Confederacy will consider increasing the fines on prohibited goods to encourage a global reduction in externalities.
We note the prohibition and fines are equivalent to equivalent tariffs and taxes, and additional full prohibitions on goods accruing excessive value from pollution and environmental damage, from slavery, and from wilful abuse.
We look forward to your reply: we will leave no stone unturned in attempting to bring our trading standards into alignment.
We have the honour to remain:
☾☀|☽
His Heavenly Imperial Sovereign, Bernard I Sunion; Delegate, Decis & Confederacy
RHT= PK7-3
His Serene Maharaja=Anax=Inquisitor, Pope=President=Princips=Palatine=Patriarch Richard VII "Hajim-Rik" Terforton=Pirnzak; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Plenipotentary=Viceroy, Delegate, Panessos & Commonwealth
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Libraria and Ausitoria wrote:
From: The Decis Confederacy and Commonwealth
To: The Allanean Free Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Other signatories to the RFTA
Encryption: Publicly Available
Your Excellencies,
After arranging the necessary regulatory powers, and after extensive consultation, we would like to inquire whether the Allanean government would agree with our judicial advice that the following is an allowed prohibition of products in line with the acceptable prohibitions made clear by participating signatories of the Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement?
“The Confederacy and Commonwealth have noticed that hidden costs, or externalities, and other such affronts to a fair and economically efficient free markets, such as slavery, servitude, wage slavery, environmental pollution, poor labour and living standards, failure to protect inventions and harmonize with standards, &c. are becoming increasingly entrenched, and the use of tariffs to address products accruing profitable value from these externalities is causing some confusion and concern in free trading quarters both near and far.
Therefore—:
Prohibition
101. It shall be considered that there is instituted in the Commonwealth and Confederacy the category of ‘Sin’ Goods and Services, the “Special Anti-Discriminatory Subsidy or INiquity” prohibition, for “Sad-Sin” products, to effect, where the Commonwealth and Confederacy think it administratively convenient, the prohibition of the sale for consumption or consumption of products with profitable value which hold profitable value by failing to meet our high standards.
The States of the Confederacy or the Free Trade Zones or jurisdictions to whom these powers are devolved shall each choose what products fall within this category in their local jurisdiction.
The consumption and the sale for consumption of these products shall be prohibited in accordance with the sections below.
This prohibition shall be calculated to affect all goods and services, or equivalently products, from determination of the following parts or externality factors:
102. The excessive environmental cruelty, pollution, & externality factor, which shall be measured by taking the costs to the environment and plants and animals therein in each of the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued, and determining what proportion of the value of the products accrues to this factor.
This factor shall include the costs to neighbouring and distant places of production inasmuch and insofar as their effectation by these externalities contributes to the value of the product.
This factor may be lessened or reversed according to the effectiveness of measures by and/or at the expense of the producer to reduce or reverse these effects.
Cruelties and externalities not excessive shall be those allowed externalities which the local jurisdictions where the prohibition may be effected shall freely and notionally choose to exclude or provide for themselves, e.g. where some minor environmental damage is a public good.
Such allowance shall not be prejudiced.
103. The workplace and labour safety factor and living standards, which shall be measured taking the disparity in workplace safety and living standards between the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued, and the places of consumption of value, from each place in proportion to the value so consumed, and observing the disparity with the local jurisdiction where the prohibition may be effected, such that products produced by slavery may be prohibited.
Any disparity resulting from prejudice in the local jurisdiction where the prohibition may be effected shall be discounted.
104. The local economic living standards and distortion factor, which shall be measured in the same manner to that above, such that value accrued from currency restriction and manipulation, suchlike prejudiced barriers, insufficient financial controls, other government effects on living standards, and suchlike measures are counted within this factor.
105. The bribery and corruption factor, which shall be measured on the basis of all payments to the detriment of the local populations in each of the places of production of value, from each place in proportion to the value so accrued.
Payments not detrimental shall be those payments which the local jurisdictions where the prohibition may be effected shall freely and notionally choose to exclude or provide for themselves, e.g., green subsidies, research subsidies, etc., the allowance for which may be capped.
Such allowance shall not be prejudiced.
106. Where any factors above overlap, e.g. due to poor workplace environments, or poor living standards, they shall not be double-counted for double jeopardy.
107. The States of the Confederacy or the Free Trade Zones or jurisdictions to whom these powers are devolved shall add up these factors, and the sale for consumption of those products with in excess of 5% of the value accruing from these externality factors shall be prohibited, except where either the value of the externality factors on all the products of any sort sold within a financial year is less than the value of $1000 in the first quarter of this financial year, or where prohibition is also excepted and exempted by the effecting jurisdiction for the purpose of alleviating regulations on small businesses of less than ten employees.
The effect of these factors and the scope of exceptions thereto shall be determined as often as it seems appropriate, on a predictable timescale.
108. Packaging of products with variable externality accrued values with the purpose of bringing the total value below 5% shall be prohibited, and shall constitute evasion in a manner equivalent to similar breaches of financial regulations, except where the package is of a total accrued value below 2%.
These provisions shall be construed to allow products which would otherwise be prohibited to be sold unprohibited when suitably packaged with, for instance, spending on increasing workplace safety, pay, or environmental projects.
109. The sale for consumption of these products within the local jurisdiction shall constitute a special offense.
The fine for such sale shall cover the profitable value accrued by such externalities, plus legal fees, plus an administrative surcharge of up to 2.5% of the value of the product, plus a 2.5% policing surcharge of the value of the product. This fine shall be levied by the local jurisdiction.
110. Where the infringing seller has communicated or intends to communicate with the local jurisdiction to inform them of the sale, in such a manner as the local jurisdiction may prescribe, the policing surcharge will not form part of a fine.
Where no legal defence is offered, and/or where the seller intends to pay any applicable fine, there shall be no legal fees.
No further jeopardy from these provisions shall be afforded to those sellers intending to pay any applicable fine by these provisions.
The resale of fined products within the local jurisdiction shall not be subject to further fines nor double-counted for double jeopardy of the products under any circumstances whatever.
Where the infringing seller has not communicated or intended to communicate in the prescribed manner with intention to pay any applicable fine to the local jurisdiction they may be considered to be committing acts of evasion.
111. For the avoidance of doubt, prohibited goods or services within or advertized within the jurisdictions must be marked “Excess Externalities”, if known, or “Unchecked Externalities” if prohibition is not known or assessed when advertised.
Such goods within the jurisdictions and services within or advertized within the jurisdictions must additionally be marked “Seller Fine” if the seller intends to pay any applicable fine, or “Seller Finer” if a seller has paid having intended to pay any applicable fine, or “Seller Fined” if a seller has paid having not intended to pay any applicable fine, or “Not Prohibited” if so assessed.
A seller may not target a product with unknown prohibition to the general domestic public for domestic consumption without intending to pay any applicable fine or clearly and obviously marking it “Not for local consumption”.
112. The consumption of these products within the local jurisdiction, where the products have not been sold for local consumption, shall constitute a special offense unless the seller intends to pay, or has paid having intended to pay, any applicable fine.
The fine for such consumption shall be levied in the same manner as the fine for sale. This fine shall be levied by the local jurisdiction.
Notwithstanding anything above, the generation of arbitrage shall not in itself be considered a form of consumption.
113. Wherever the size of subsidies or the like, e.g. tariffs, depend on foreign policy, e.g. automatic retaliation, the subsidies shall be assumed to be at the minimum consistent with these measures.
114. These prohibitions shall equivalently replace, repeal, consume, re-apply, and re-effect the equivalent tariffs (i)-(iv) subsequent to these administrative allowances, and extend or re-extend their effect to domestic entities in a similar manner.
115. These prohibitions shall have equal effect to domestic and foreign entities trading within or between Commonwealth and Confederacy Jurisdictions.
Additional Fines
201. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the consumption or sale for local consumption of products with environmental pollution factor in excess of 25% beyond 2020 shall be absolutely prohibited, and fined at an additional 25% before 2024 and 50% from that year.
202. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the consumption or sale for local consumption of products with any accrued value from slavery in excess of 10% shall be absolutely prohibited, and additionally fined at an additional 100%.
203. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, the sale for local consumption of products with any factor in excess of 25% shall be additionally fined proportionate to the excess over 25%.
204. These additional fines shall sum.
Resale
301. Nothing within this protocol shall be taken to prevent the purchase and sale of these products within the local jurisdictions for the purpose of reselling and trading these or equivalent products outside the local jurisdiction or with other jurisdictions.
302. Prohibited products earmarked for s. 301 purposes may not move within the jurisdictions except for the above purpose in those areas and/or under those companies and/or according to further standards and regulations which the jurisdiction effecting the prohibition may approve.
303. For the avoidance of doubt, goods or services within or advertized within the jurisdictions for s. 301 or 302 purposes must be clearly and obviously marked “Not for local consumption”.
Trade Opt-outs
401. Notwithstanding anything in this protocol, but subject to the allowance of any other treaties, any nation in any future trade agreement may declare to the Commonwealth and Confederacy that they would prefer to opt-out and to be subject to the historic equivalent tariffs (i)-(iv) on a transitional basis; whereupon their goods shall be exempt from this prohibition and instead equivalently subject to those tariffs for at least three years or until at least 2022, whichever is sooner; and then until a year after the Commonwealth and Confederacy notify the nation of the end of such opt-outs; until 2024 at the latest.
403. All nations in existing trade agreements with the Commonwealth and Confederacy shall be considered to have effected such an opt-out until 2020.
“
We note that if any seller wishes to dispute a proposed fine or its size while still being willing to pay any applicable fine, they should dispute the extent to which the proposed fine is applicable.
We note that if these products were prohibited totally or more stringently it would be disproportionate (i.e., beyond the intended prohibition of using profitable value) and detrimental to trade, although in the course of the next ten years the Commonwealth and Confederacy will consider increasing the fines on prohibited goods to encourage a global reduction in externalities.
We note the prohibition and fines are equivalent to equivalent tariffs and taxes, and additional full prohibitions on goods accruing excessive value from pollution and environmental damage, from slavery, and from wilful abuse.
We look forward to your reply: we will leave no stone unturned in attempting to bring our trading standards into alignment.
We have the honour to remain:
☾☀|☽
His Heavenly Imperial Sovereign, Bernard I Sunion; Delegate, Decis & Confederacy
RHT= PK7-3
His Serene Maharaja=Anax=Inquisitor, Pope=President=Princips=Palatine=Patriarch Richard VII "Hajim-Rik" Terforton=Pirnzak; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Plenipotentary=Viceroy, Delegate, Panessos & Commonwealth
by Allanea » Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:59 am
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Saint Peter the Great wrote:I will join this alliance.
by Libraria and Ausitoria » Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:28 pm
Pax Prosperitas - Gloria in Maere
By Order of Their Imperial Majesty's Government
Public Announcement of The Decis Confederacy and Commonwealth announcing 2nd Reichsburg Protocol
Following consultations, the Commonwealth and Confederacy will change standard regime from (i)-(iv) tariffs on subsidized products to prohibition of products with excess externalities in the manner previously outlined, except with a Section 401 cut-off of 2020 instead, and they will simultaneously sign and ratify our accession to the Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement.
This will occur on 30th June 2018 with effect from 1st July 2018 (Q3) thereon.
We would like to thank the Allanean and Panessos Governments and the Common and Confederated States and Nations for their understanding and support in implementing these changes in a manner which refocuses trade policy from excess subsidy concerns to excess externality concerns regardless of source.
We will be happy to provide further guidance as appropriate.
Signed,
☾☀|☽
His Heavenly Imperial Sovereign, Bernard I Sunion; Delegate, Decis & Confederacy
RHT= PK7-3
His Serene Maharaja=Anax=Inquisitor, Pope=President=Princips=Palatine=Patriarch Richard VII "Hajim-Rik" Terforton=Pirnzak; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Plenipotentary=Viceroy, Delegate, Panessos & Commonwealth
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by Libraria and Ausitoria » Sun May 13, 2018 7:21 am
Pax Prosperitas - Gloria in Maere
By Order of Their Imperial Majesty's Government
Investment & Access Inquiry & (3rd) Protocol - Reichsburg Free Trade Agreement and Non-discrimination against Investment & Access (i) Investor Products, (ii) Quotas, (iii) Expropriation, (iv) Universal Access, (v) Persons providing services as products
In preparation for the Commonwealth's forthcoming accession to the Free Trade Agreement on 1st July 2018, the Board of International Trade seeks formal confirmation from major trading parties within the Free Trade Agreement that:
(i) The protection against taxes and tarrifs (clause 1) and prohibitions not levied on similar domestic products (clause 2) extends to protection of the trade of Investor Products inasmuch as they are services or packages or products or arrangements or parties or any other mechanisms paying dividends, having share-holdings, futures, options, money and bullion, and the like, and protection from prohibiting the trade of value owing to inventions and intellectual property (e.g. computer coding), except where such prohibitions apply to domestic products (e.g. defence investment).
(ii) The protection against prohibitions not levied on similar domestic products (clause 2) extends to protection against the institute of quotas on allowed numbers of products or parties which prohibits any portion of products, except where such prohibitions apply equally to similar domestic products (e.g. defence manufaturers).
(iii) The protection against prohibitions not levied on similar domestic products (clause 2) extends to protection against expropriation, compulsory purchase, compulsory licensing, forced nationalization, and the like being conducted with prohibitive effect against such products, except where such prohibitions apply equally to similar domestic products (e.g. nationalization of companies or property involved in defence).
(iv) The protection against prohibitions not levied on similar domestic products (clause 2) extends to protection against being denied reasonable use and access to services required for the products to take effect (e.g. radio frequencies, standard essential patents, postal services, payment and clearing systems, essential utilities and services, sea and sky access, access to ports and customs), except where such prohibitions apply equally to similar domestic products (e.g. services used in defense, fair allocation of scarce resources).
(v) The protection against taxes and tarrifs (clause 1) and prohibitions not levied on similar domestic products (clause 2) extends to protection of persons who are products or packages inasuch as they contain such persons who are acting as part of the trade of and/or services included in such products, except where such prohibitions apply to domestic products and persons (e.g. residency criteria or criminal and terrorist backgrounds).
This is our present understanding, but we would like to confirm this list.
In the event that any of these are not considered protected, we would like to invite any signatories to make an additional agreement to enforce them.
We note (i) would protect all services as products.
We further note (ii) would prevent a nation from not prohibiting imports but instead arbitrarily limiting the number of things they might buy from a country to say one item, (iii) would prevent a nation from not prohibiting imports but instead nationalizing any company that tried to import them, (iv) would prevent a nation from not prohibiting imports but instead blockading their arrival, and (v) would prevent a nation from not prohibiting imports but instead preventing a person from delivering them. None of these (ii)-(v) options would seem a sensible or proper interpretation of clauses 1 or 2 of the treaty, but we would like to confirm that they are not permitted.
Signed,
Fiona Or-Polov
The Foreign Policy Office, Commonwealth
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by Allanea » Tue May 15, 2018 10:09 am
by Libraria and Ausitoria » Sat May 19, 2018 5:49 am
Pax Prosperitas - Gloria in Maere
By Order of Their Imperial Majesty's Government
Reply to Acceptance of Pending Accession (2nd Reichsburg Protocol) to the Reichsburg (Allanean) Free Trade Agreement
We look forward to further co-operation with the Free Kingdom & all of our future trading allies. Trade is the free exchange of the wealth of all the diverse and imaginative quarters of the globes. May it enrich and sustain us all for eternity.
Ensure it travels everywhere, ensure everyone benefits and celebrates it, and ensure it leads to peace and prosperity for all.
We would especially like to issue an invitation to the Alleanean Head of State to visit and speak to the Houses of Parliament during the course of the coming decade. This accolade is the first such invitation ever offered outside our own regions.
Signed,
RHT= PK7-3
His Serene Maharaja=Anax=Inquisitor, Pope=President=Princips=Palatine=Patriarch Richard VII "Hajim-Rik" Terforton=Pirnzak; Secretary of State for Foreign & Whittan Affairs Plenipotentary=Viceroy, Delegate, Panessos & Commonwealth
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