International trade

International trade

The buying and selling of goods, services and capital across international borders or territories.

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Applied tariff

Economy; International trade

Duties that are actually charged on imports. These can be below the bound rates.

Applied rates

Economy; International trade

Duties that are actually charged on imports. These can be below the bound rates.

Article XX

Economy; International trade

A GATT article listing allowed exceptions to the trade rules.

Geographical indications

Economy; International trade

Place names (or words associated with a place) used to identify products (for example, Champagne, Tequila or Roquefort) which have a particular quality, reputation or other characteristic ...

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

The former trade and tariffs agreement that has been superseded as an international organisation by the WTO. An updated General Agreement is now the WTO agreement governing trade in goods. GATT 1947 ...

Food security

Economy; International trade

When the nutritional needs of a country or population are met consistently. This is commonly described as when people or populations at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, ...

Free-rider

Economy; International trade

A casual term used to infer that a country which does not make any trade concessions, profits, nonetheless, from tariff cuts and concessions made by other countries in negotiations under the ...