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Long Introduction to GATS
“Governments are free in principle to pursue any national policy objectives, provided the relevant measures are compatible with the GATS.” –WTO, Oct. 1999
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Media coverage of WTO dispute settlement impasse completely leaving out its implications for working if WTO takes over work visas globally.
Pick our poison? Loss by US in a pending WTO dispute could shrink the middle class in size substantially internationally. Given Biden's involvement in the TISA agreement and Trump's quite probably ...
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Urgent-non-partisan Medicare and Social-Security traps for the unwary -proof below
NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS, please forgive the state of this document, its still being edited and has redundant information! BUT its important, and verifiable fact. URGENT: Both US Presidential ...
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Topic: Article XXI (21) - (Getting out of the GATS and avoiding any new treaties that outsource and offshore more jobs.)
Getting out of the GATS (and we must avoid any new treaties, such as India-US and UK-US that capture policy space on issues like healthcare insurance permanently, and outsource and offshore more ...
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Recommendations
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DS503
DS503 is a WTO dispute that was filed in 2016 by India against the US. It contains a number of innocent-looking requests that when investigated...
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in competition with one or more service suppliers
What does "in competition with one or more service suppliers" mean in GATS and other FTAS that borrow the GATS definition? (of "services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority" i.e. ...
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Discussion of the ongoing war on the poor and middle class.
The important thing to understand is that our government (in the US) is pursuing an absolutely separate, often contradictory policy via the almost unknown means of trade deals and trade policy and ...
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Britons, GATS was the missing piece Jeremy Corbyn likely couldn't tell you about two months ago, Similarly with Bernie Sanders, it seems he won't tell us this missing piece either I really would rather not think that he'd rather let Biden win the Dem nomination and then lose to Trump. BTW, without leaving GATS, Biden cannot fix healthcare, his hands will be tied by GATS..
It explains the all important dirty 1990s deal that both leaders can't seem to get the heart to tell you both about,. Way back in the 1990s, both the Labour and Democratic Parties were run by ...
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Rank and file Democrats don't know about the GATS, nor does it seem do many Congresspeople. Also, PLEASE submit "claims" made here, to fact checking sites, whether you doubt them or not.
is this for real, or not? Of course, with rank and file Dems, it almost always is. But with Congress? I think they often ARE telling the truth, they don't know about GATS, etc. The entire nation - ...
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progressive liberalization
the entire text of GATS' 'progressive liberalization' (Part IV) Progressive liberalization (along with similar concepts like standstill/rollback, the ratchet effect, or "trade creep") Lock in all ...
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