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Already, South Korea is considering bringing the Chinese sanctions to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for adjudication, and the authorities are reviewing whether China has violated relevant clauses of the two countries’ bilateral free-trade agreement.
The sense of a professional ethic is conveyed by clauses in the oath that require managers to “develop both myself and other managers under my supervision so that the profession continues to grow and contribute to the well-being of society.”
Disputes over investor protection clauses in trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership focus on concerns that arcane tribunals protecting the interests of foreign corporations can undermine national sovereignty.
We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.
The Commission’s competition lawyers announced that they would look into all national clauses, but GM’s recovery and the slow implementation of the German scheme ended up undermining the Magna solution.
That is why, over the last decade, governments have augmented the market-based approach with a contractual approach that resolves the holdout problem by introducing collective-action clauses (CACs) that can also cram down on holdouts the terms accepted by a majority of creditors.
These clauses became standard in sovereign bonds but were missing in those issued by Argentina before 2001, when the crisis hit.
The old mistakes – propping up lame-duck industries or betting on specific technologies – can largely be avoided through strong policies on competition and state aid (to ensure that support for the auto sector, say, is not seen as support only for current incumbents) and sunset clauses for specific assistance.
That is why enabling legislation for spending programs should contain sunset clauses, with extensions subject to independent evaluation.
That is why bankruptcy courts and bonds with collective-action clauses (CACs) seek to impose on all bondholders, including potential holdouts, agreements accepted by a qualified majority of creditors.
To protect themselves from the financial fallout, governments would invoke obscure clauses in EU treaties in order to slap temporary controls on capital flows and ring-fence their banking systems.
At a recent Eurogroup meeting, eurozone finance ministers agreed on reforms to allow fundamentally “sound” member states to access “contingent” ESM credit lines if they meet certain conditions, and for all sovereign-bond contracts to include collective-action clauses by 2022.
Drafted by a group of experts in 1957, under the auspices of the country’s former British rulers, the constitution includes two seemingly contradictory clauses.
By contrast, the proposed restrictions on the visa-waiver program include “safeguard clauses” that would temporarily suspend access to Europe’s Schengen area, most likely for those from Balkan countries.
In principle, we could expand enforceable labor clauses in trade agreements to cover working conditions in the entire economy.
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home.
Moreover, countries should put climate concerns at the center of their trade and investment negotiations, such as by carving out fossil-fuel projects from investment clauses.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
All that is needed, he suggests, are "collective action" clauses that allow the majority (or a supermajority) of a group of bondholders to impose their will on a minority, so as to prevent scavengers who, in the past, bought up small stakes in a bond issue and used their position to extract large concessions for themselves.
Collective action clauses are important, but they are not enough.
For example, a new framework should include clauses providing for stays of litigation while the restructuring is being carried out, thus limiting the scope for disruptive behavior by vulture funds.
Governments’ need to establish their credibility has thus given rise to trade agreements with so-called investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clauses, allowing the firm to sue the government in international tribunals.
But the literature on related instruments known as collective-action clauses suggests that borrowing costs would rise only for governments approaching the limit of their creditworthiness – that is, close to the cocos’ trigger.
These two reforms alone would deprive Russia of its ability to play one country off against another, because a concession granted to one national distributor would immediately become available to customers in all the other countries through enforceable supply contracts clauses and transit protocols overseen by the European Commission.
Thus a strengthened EU energy solidarity is vital, with every country in Europe helping via binding “solidarity clauses” to guarantee the energy supplies of others in an emergency – whether that emergency is deliberate or accidental.
Some of today’s restrictions on habeas corpus and civil liberties have sunset clauses restricting their validity; all such rules should be re-examined by parliaments regularly.
There is something inconsistent in bailing out the banking system once again and then “bailing in” holders of sovereign debt after 2013 by introducing collective-action clauses.
Individual countries would then have to issue their own bonds with collective-action clauses, paying the risk premium only on amounts that exceed the public-debt limit (60% of GDP) set by the Maastricht criteria.
First, clear and explicit human rights and democracy clauses should be included, along the lines of similar clauses in the Mexican and Chilean Economic Association treaties with the EU.
These clauses were introduced during the Civil War as a way to protect investors against a possible inflationary surge.
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