Disputes are then arbitrated by a WTO adjudicatory body?
Once we conclude the negotiation, we then lose control over customs and immigration?
Posted on 06/19/2005 11:52:53 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16: Washington has offered full access to Indian investors in computer and computer-related services under Mode 3 (pertaining to investment policy) of World Trade Organisation.
The offer pertains to two digit level of access which, according to experts, suggests a full-scale opening up of the sector including services that may arise out of future technological innovations and advancements.
If these offers, made under the Doha Round of WTO, materialise the US government would not, at any point in future, deny an Infosys or a TCS or even an aspiring Indian entrepreneur, permission to invest in any conceivable computer and computer related service in that country.
Liberal Mode 3 entry also means flexibility of market access and national treatment to Indian investors in the US.
At present, computer-related services, including software services, are defined more elaborately under three to six digit codes, virtually keeping a large number of services out of bounds.
New Delhi, however, is hardly enthused by the offer. It wants the US to clarify whether the two digit opening up would cover Mode 1 (cross-boarder supply or BPO services) and Mode 4 (movement of persons) as well. Initial reports from Geneva suggest that opening up is across all modes, but officials here want a confirmation.
Speaking to FE, a senior commerce department official called the US decision to “broaden” the offers on computer-related services “a good trend.”
He, however, hastened to add that the US tendency to make horizontal commitments on Mode 4 offers could not be overlooked.
Mode 4 is about cross-border movement of persons. “My experience with the manner of US negotiations suggests that Mode 4 opening up, if any, would still be in a very limited way. If the commitments are altered across sectors, they are unlikely to be exciting,” he said.
Given that major players like the US, EU, Canada and Australia have already made revised bilateral offers on services to India, New Delhi is slated to make its revised offer before June 30.
A meeting of Cabinet Committee on WTO would be held shortly to discuss the matter.
The committee would give the commerce department a wider mandate to negotiate through offers and demands.
Indian offers, sources said, would be conditional upon greater binding by the other countries, especially the EU and US, in Mode 1 and Mode 4.
I don't know jack about things such as this but it doesn't sounds good.
Disputes are then arbitrated by a WTO adjudicatory body?
Once we conclude the negotiation, we then lose control over customs and immigration?
Basically correct. Here's why:
The Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in the Persuance thereof; and all Treaties made, and which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. (US Constitution: Article VI, paragraph 2)
Some of us have been trying to warn against handing over our sovereignty for a number of years now. It never matters to those who think they stand to make a fast buck. With a stroke of a pen, any President could easily sign away our first amendment rights, the second amendment, and so on with the willing support of judges like Kennedy and O'Connor. This is what happens when you have elected officials who are for sale to the highest bidder. Hell, the sold our missile technology to the Chinese. They'll sell anything and anyone. It's long past time for regime change in Washington. Thanks to decades of indoctrination and dumbing-down in public schools, few citizens are aware of this section of the Constitution or of what is happening.
Worse, the Supremes have even upheld the power of the President, acting by executive agreement when he cannot get the Senate on board, to agree away state and federal laws.
The crunch comes when sacred cows the Court favors are threatened. Imagine the President by executive agreement or even by treaty with the consent of the Senate doing away with the "right" to abortion?
An interesting theory. Maybe if I were president I'd sign a treaty with the Vactican outlawing abortion. It would be interesting, to say the least, to see Ginsburg, Souter, O'Connor, Stephens, and Breyer twist and turn their way out of that one.
Sadly, the likelihood of any such treaty is nil. The opposite is much more likely to be the case. The one-world types are universally leftist in nature. The nation-state must be destroyed or nullified im order to bring out the utopia of free-and-equal supermen in their view. The only argument is between the UN/Socialist camp (Chirac, Kerry) and the "free market" Jacobin camp (Bush/Blair). Of course, the "religion of peace" has their own vision for one, unified world as well (the Caliphate). The typical Western globalist secular leftists might be in for a big surprise if those folks end up on top - not that wouldn't completely deserve the tender mercies of Sharia law.
They ought to bronze that quote for posterity and commit the rest of your message to memory 'cause you you just nailed it.
Thanks, Gen'l.
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Bump! Major problem.
Bush is throwing away our nations independence-just as his buddy Clinton did. Were being made dependent upon others.
The Founders are rolling over right now.
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