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Congress again placed prohibitions in Title VII of the Appropriations Act, to include prohibiting the use funds for publicity or propaganda not authorized by Congress29 and for the purpose of influencing congressional action on any legislation or appropriation matters, either directly or indirectly.30 Congress also limited the ability of the SECDEF and the Service Secretaries to obligate funds during the last two months of the fiscal year to twenty percent of one-year appropriations contained in the Act.31 Congress again limited the availability of funds for conversion of functions of the DOD to contractors32 and prohibited the use of any appropriated funds to initiate a new installation overseas without advance notification to the appropriations committees.33 Further, Congress directed...
...Limitations of Transfer of Defense Articles and Services. During an international peacekeeping...
A federal grand jury in Florida has indicted two men, one from Taiwan and the other from France, on charges of conspiring to illegally send military equipment - including an F-16 jet aircraft engine - to the People's Republic of China. S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said the nine-count indictment accuses Ko-Suen Moo, of Taipei, Taiwan; and Maurice Serge Voros, of Paris, with various violations of the Arms Export Control Act involving the illegal brokering and attempted export of prohibited defense articles to China.
A prime factor of trade liberalization, investment, eludes a comprehensive coverage in the multilateral rule based regime under the World Trade Organization. The Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures, though one exclusively concentrated on investment, has proved to be insufficient as regards various barriers facing liberalization of cross-border investment flows are concerned. The proposed Multilateral Investment Agreement of Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development Group of countries also having failed to come up as planned, the field remains unoccupied even today. Therefore, it is high time that a consensus emerges at the multilateral level as regards basic rules of fair-play and liberalization of host-country measures towards foreign investment flows.
... welfare and should therefore be prohibited. Thus, countries with different policy objectives ... to (i) examine the operation of GATT Articles related to the trade-restrictive and trade-distort...
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