1. The WTO and Globalization After Seattle
The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, that is the formal name for such a wonderful country, although it is commonly known as Uruguay. Montevideo, the capital and major port sits on the banks of Rio de la Plata. Uruguay is the smallest Spanish-speaking country in South America with a land area of 176,220 square kilometers, slightly smaller than North Dakota. .
Obviously, since this is the smallest Spanish-speaking country in South America, I guess it's safe to assume that they do actually speak the Spanish language. Well since we"re on the fact that this is a small country, let's talk about its geographical features. I could talk about this better if there were some actual points of interest, but there's just not any, except one. The beaches, of course one of the most famous coastal areas is the Punta del Esta, translated to End of the East. Last summer it contributed to over half the tourist percentage that came to Uruguay. .
So what exactly are these tourists spending when they come to Uruguay? They"re spending the Peso Uruguayo. This is the legal term for this country's tender, although often called the Uruguayan peso (Uruguayan is the term for someone who lives in Uruguay, but you knew that). If you used one dollar to get Uruguayan pesos, you"d get 9.90 pesos. .
However, most of their tourists come from their bordering countries, which are Brazil and Argentina. That's kind of weird considering the beaches are beautiful, not to mention the women, I mean there's a lot of interesting things to see. One is the Santa Teresa, which sits on more than 3,000 acres of land and has more than 2 million trees, it is a huge park where rose lovers can come and see over 3,000 species of roses. When you do visit these countries what do you expect to eat? How about the Dulce de Leche, which is a caramel milk spread cream. This cold cream can go on a piece of toast for breakfast, but it is most commonly found on Uruguayan desserts.
The Uruguay Round from 1986-1994 made great strides in reforming a lot of that and bringing substantial change to agriculture negotiations. The Uruguay Round put agriculture trade firmly within the multilateral trading system (Veneman). ... The Uruguay Round is when this framework was set up but it was the only beginning, however, article 20 of the agriculture agreement committed members to begin negotiating on continuing the reform starting in early 2000. ... Resulting from the Uruguay Round, all non-tariff barriers were abolished or converted to tariffs in a process called tariffication. ...
Hedden, the General Manager from Kolbenschmidt is not satisfied with the recent sales figures from Santa Rosa in Uruguay. ... Cesar explains that this is something very typical for Uruguay and has nothing to do with a lack of interest. ... Loser being transferred to Uruguay than in business. ... The cultures of Uruguay and Germany have very different values and ways of communication. ... How different is the perception of time in the Uruguayan and German culture, and what problems can arise from that? ...
With the Uruguay Round trade agreement; the WTO had an improved dispute settlement mechanism and a tightening of the GATT exemption on regional agreements. ... In this regard, Farrell suggests that the Uruguay Round agreement "provided for a tightening of the GATT exemption on regional agreements" which is contained in article XXIV of the GATT, that is the article which permitted the setting up of the European Economic Community (EEC). ... The basic tension between the WTO objective and the EU purpose are reflected in this decision to strengthen article XXIV that was made in the Uruguay Rou...
The eighth, the Uruguay Round (1986-94), was the last and most extensive of all. ... The Uruguay Round was the most comprehensive of any, lasting over seven years of negotiations from 1986 to 1993. ... But more important than this tariff reduction, the Uruguay Round had been successful because it was concerned with the largest ever package of market access concessions and, particularly, it was dealing with controversial and breaking new grounds. ... The Uruguay Round had also brought "a ban on grey area measures-, which mainly concern "Voluntary Export Restraints (VERs)- (C.J. ... Finally, the...
Uruguay for example banned smoking in enclosed spaces in 2006, required tobacco companies place warnings on over half of the cartons surface area in 2008, and raised the price of packs through taxes in 2010 yet they are still being punished by the tobacco companies with extremely expensive legal cases each of the previous 5 years. ... For reference of available resources Australia as a country has an annual Gross Domestic Product of $1.56 trillion, Uruguay has a Gross Domestic Product of $55 billion, (World Bank) PMI is a company with net revenues exceeding $29 billion, and this exemplifies th...
Uruguay known as the Banda Oriental under Spanish Rule would wait until 1823 to receive its Independence. Uruguay was part of the Viceroyalty of Rio de La Plata like Paraguay. When that Viceroyalty was defeated Uruguay started to move toward Independence. ... Uruguay was still dominated by Argentina and Artigas fought for a freed nation. The Portuguese that occupied Brazil soon attacked Uruguay and Montevideo was captured. ...