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Taxation-Transnational

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2002

Tax policy

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Foreign Sales Corporations--Subsidies, Sanctions, And Trade Wars, Candace Carmichael Jan 2002

Foreign Sales Corporations--Subsidies, Sanctions, And Trade Wars, Candace Carmichael

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The largest sanctions in the history of the World Trade Organization, the need to stabilize an ailing economy, and the need to maintain strong alliances in the face of a new global war on terrorism are all issues the United States currently faces in deciding how to resolve its dispute with the European Union regarding U.S. tax policy. In 1997, the European Union filed a complaint with the WTO claiming that the then-current U.S. tax regime violated U.S. international trade agreements. The European Union contended that the U.S. tax system gave rise to export-contingent subsidies, in violation of U.S. trade …