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What does TRIMS stand for?

Trade-Related Investment Measures


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Other articles examine the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (Arthur Appleton), the Agreement on Textiles, which has been terminated recently (Simon Lester), the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (Martha Lara de Sterlini), the Antidumping Agreement (Patrick Macrory), the Agreement on Customs Valuation (Ian Forester and Omar Odarda), the Agreement on Preshipment Inspection (Rolf Jekel and Nigel Balchin), the Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures (Patrick Macrory), the Agreement on Rules of Origin (Hiroshi Imagawa and Edwin Vermulst), and the Agreement on Safeguards (Yong-Shik Lee).
The first, fully consonant with the principle of negative prescription, consisted of further reductions in tariffs, agreements on agriculture and textiles to bring these sectors more fully within GATT coverage, an agreement expanding the scope of government procurement open to international competition, revised agreements on emergency safeguards and antidumping and countervailing duty procedures, and a new agreement disciplining the use of trade-related investment measures.
Trade-related investment measures such as local content measures were banned under an agreement negotiated during the Uruguay Round, which ended in 1993.
Most issues relating to investment liberalization in the context of the GATT are dealt with in the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures [31] and the GATS, the latter of which contains commercial provisions relevant to drawing out the importance of investment to trade in services (Sauve, 1994).
The Agreement on Trade-related Investment Measures, in fact, focuses on one aspect of the policy interrelationship between trade and investment.
At least two of the new negotiations designed to protect their interests -- Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) and Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) -- would require massive changes to national laws around the world, and subsequent enforcement.
There are also agreements covering trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIMS) and trade-related investment measures (TRIPS).

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