He was the territory's first Permanent Representative to the GATT . He help Hong Kong in the Uruguay Round and was chair of the Negotiating Group on Subsidies and Countervail at Uruguay.
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You may have opinions about semantics ( how words are defined or used within a lexicon ), or how you would have written the dictionary, but your opinion does not countervail the efforts of trained lexicographers.
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In 1990 he proposed an economic " bloc to countervail others, " meaning the European Union and NAFTA . But initial reaction to the idea from Tokyo and several other capitals was chilly and has remained so.
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The inoffensive-sounding caucus was originally recommended by Mahathir in 1990 as a more robust economic " bloc to countervail others, " including the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area covering Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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As a friend of the Chair at the end of the Round he helped the then Director General, Peter Sutherland, to bring the negotiations to a conclusion in the areas of Anti-Dumping, Safeguards, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement, as well as Subsidies and Countervail.
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He defined a faction as " a number of citizens whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community . " What was then called republican government ( i . e ., federalism, as opposed to direct democracy ), with its varied distribution of voter rights and powers, would countervail against factions.
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"It means that we abandon our fiscal independence, together with our free-trade ways; that we subside into the tenth part of a " Vehmgericht " which is to direct us what sugar is to be countervailed, at what rate per cent . we are to countervail it, how much is to be put on for the bounty, and how much for the tariff being in excess of the convention tariff; and this being the established order of things, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in his robes obeys the orders that he receives from this foreign convention, in which the Britisher is only one out of ten, and the House of Commons humbly submits to the whole transaction . ( " Shame . " ) Sir, of all the insane schemes ever offered to a free country as a boon this is surely the maddest ."
