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the same time the country maintained close ties to the West, especially to France. However, since the end of Houphouët-Boigny rule, the country has experienced two coups d’état (1999 and 2001) and a civil war, but recent elections and a political agreement between the new government and the rebels have brought a return to peace. The country, through its production of coffee and cocoa, was an economic powerhouse during the 1960s and 1970s in West Africa. However, Côte d'Ivoire went through an economic

move more freely around the world International organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization are important institutions in the global economic system. Global trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade helped accelerate globalization, opening markets around world to an expanding range of goods and services. The global economy has allowed consumers access to an expanding range of goods

international agreements. 6. a. False (l. 13)”Despite President Bush’s cowboy foray into Iraq, the way most nations experience American might these days is not military, but economic.” b. True (l. 15) “I had not thought much about globalization until my wife and I lived for six months in India in the late 1990s.” c. True (l. 17) “Indians were outraged by American corporate attempts to patent basmati rice…” d. True (l. 21) “When it comes to a different kind of international agreement, those of

raison d’être, in the fact that many legal systems distinguish between commercial contracts and administrative contracts, giving the State, in relation with the latter, extraordinary powers that might be used notwithstanding any other contractual agreement, and jeopardizing therefore the international legal security for foreign investments. In that sense, the umbrella clause seems to create a higher level of protection to the benefit of the foreign investor. Indeed, by formulating a duty to observe

principles, particularly in regard to changes in tariff rates, the conclusion of tariff and trade agreements, the achievement of uniformity in measures of liberalisation, export policy and measures to protect trade such as those to be taken in the event of dumping or subsidies 2. The Commission shall submit proposals to the Council for implementing the common commercial policy. 3. Where agreements with one or more States or international organisations need to be negotiated, the Commission shall

fondateurs L’OMC est régis par une soixantaine d’accords concernant l’ensemble des domaines de l’économie, les trois plus importants sont ; le GATT (marchandises), le GATS (services) et l’ADPIC (propriété intellectuel). A. GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) Le GATT ou Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce fut signé le 30 Octobre 1947 par 23 pays. Son but premier était de promouvoir un commerce libéral et mondial. Il voulait ainsi instaurer des règles de bonne

have their interests protected by treaties or conventions such as the Maastricht Treaty, the Lome Convention or the International Cocoa Agreement. EU therefore promises with the Directive 73/241 to promote sustainable, economic and social development, to encourage the expansion of cocoa consumption and to undertake obligations to producers. The three agreements encourage the EU to act responsibly and positively towards producers and consumers alike. The EU and the WTO The World Trade Organisation

sharing of the Nile between Sudan and other countries bordering was a cause of periodic tensions. Upon independence in 1956, the Sudanese are demanding a renegotiation of the agreement with Egypt in 1929, a British colony. Negotiated at the time of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium and largely positive to Cairo, the agreement provided to share the Nile's annual flow estimated at 84 billion m3 (km 3 / year), 48km3 per year for Egypt , 4km3 per year for Sudan, the remaining 32km3 per year to the Mediterranean

Renault - Nissan Alliance 1. NISSAN Group and its agreement with Renault 2. Carlos Ghosn new strategy implementation To overcome the mounting problems, Nissan suffered the ultimate humiliation for a Japanese company: it was taken over by the foreigner. In May 1999 France’s Renault SA purchased 37 per cent of Nissan’s common stock $5.4 billion, effectively transferring control of Japan’s second largest auto manufacturer to the French firm. Renault empowered one of its most highly respected

government formally announced the country's withdrawal in March 2017, beginning the Brexit process. The withdrawal was delayed by deadlock in the British parliament. Following general elections in 2017 and 2019, Parliament ratified the withdrawal agreement, and the UK left the EU at 11 p.m. GMT on 31 January 2020. (source Wikipedia) => le 1er février est donc le premier jour où le Royaume-Uni ne fait officiellement plus partie de l’Union européenne. - Le club des 28 fait référence aux 28 pays