Fairness in Multilateral Trade

[Gulliver]

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Significant
Proposed by: [nation]Auralia[/nation]

Description: Concerned that protectionism often introduces harmful and unnecessary barriers to international trade,

Convinced that discrimination between World Assembly (WA) member nations in international trade is therefore a clear obstacle to worldwide economic prosperity and thus should be considered a serious hazard to national populations,

The General Assembly hereby adopts this resolution on fairness in multilateral trade:

Article I: Most-Favoured-Nation Status and National Treatment

Section 1: Any trade preference granted by a member nation for a good or service originating from or destined for another member nation must be granted to the same type of good or service originating from or destined for all other member nations.

Section 2: Any internal taxes or regulations on a good or service of domestic origin must be applied equally to the same type of good or service originating from other member nations.

Article II: Exceptions to Most-Favoured-Nation Status and National Treatment

Section 1: The provisions of Article I do not apply to any goods or services which originate from or are destined for a non-member nation.

Section 2: The provisions of Article I do not preclude the creation of free trade areas or customs unions or the continuation of existing ones, so long as such areas or unions are created to facilitate free trade between their members, not to raise trade barriers for all other member nations.

Section 3: The provisions of Article I may be suspended if a discriminatory subsidy applied by a member nation is causing significant damage to another member nation's domestic industries. Only proportional retaliation is authorized under this provision.

Section 4: The provisions of Article I may be suspended in order to take measures necessary to ensure reasonable quality control on goods and services, so long as such measures do not constitute unreasonable discrimination between goods and services from different member nations with similar issues.

Section 5: The provisions of Article I may be suspended in order to protect vital national security interests during serious international disputes or times of war, or in the event of a significant violation of international law.

Section 6: The provisions of Article I must be suspended in order to comply with previous WA resolutions. Furthermore, nothing in this resolution should be interpreted as preventing the WA from developing additional reasonable and appropriate international trade regulations that are consistent with the goals of this resolution, as well as the interests of sustainable development and poverty reduction.

Article III: Dispute Resolution Mechanism

Section 1: If any member nation believes another member nation is in violation of international trade law, or applying measures deemed both unfair and damaging to other member nations, regardless of their legality, the nations are requested to negotiate with one other to resolve the dispute.

Section 2: The matter may be referred to the International Trade Association (ITA) for non-binding mediation with the consent of both nations during this time.

Section 3: If the dispute is not resolved within a reasonable length of time, the matter may be referred to the ITA for binding arbitration with the consent of both nations. The ITA is empowered to impose any fines, penalties or sanctions it deems appropriate on nations which do not comply with its rulings.

[Delfos]

I say against, there's more exceptions than rights, some of the exceptions contradict the name "fairness" from the title, you either want it fair in all cases with logical exceptions or you don't. You either accept full responsibility of globalization or you turn all economies into protectorates.