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5 pages in length. The writer discusses tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade agreements, trade blocs and foreign exchange controls as they relate to Ireland. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: LM1_TLCtarif.doc
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ultimately establishing Ireland as "one of the most trade-dependent economies in the world" (Anonymous ireland.html). Given primary credit for this current status is the special ten percent tariff rate
applied to manufacturing activities, which represents nearly forty percent of Irelands entire economic base, "compared with an average of 20 percent in the European Union (EU)" (Anonymous ireland.html). Ireland
also imposes "preferential tariff treatment" (Anonymous ireland.htm) to those particular territories and countries that have a positive association with historical EU, as well as to those areas less able to
pay high tariffs. "The granting of reduced tariffs to developing countries is under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)" (Anonymous ireland.htm). II. NON-TARIFF BARRIERS
Inasmuch as Ireland is an early member of the EU, it abides by various tariff and non-tariff barriers as they apply to EU policies (Anonymous ireland.html).
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Uruguay round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) implemented a fundamental change from non-tariff to tariff-only protection for agriculture. It included
substantial cuts in border protection, as well as domestic support and export subsidies; a bound one third reduction in most tariffs on industrial goods, with much deeper cuts in some
sectors; a "framework agreement on rules for all trade in services; international protection for trademarks, patents and copyright and improved dispute-settlement procedures; measures to limit adverse trade effects and provide
more-effective international rules on subsidies, anti dumping and countervailing rules, safeguards and standards; and the creation of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) to integrate the outcome of negotiations in all
areas of the Round, including improved dispute settlement procedures" (Anonymous Uruguay.htm). The relative attractiveness of Irish goods to foreign buyers - and of
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