Traduction de «Congrès latino-américain de l'industrie des engrais » (Français → Anglais) :

71. Reiterates its concern about the significant direct and indirect government support given to US industry, by means of direct subsidies, protective legislation and tax policies; stresses, in particular, that all the reports by the WTO Panel and the Appellate Body on the Foreign Sales Corporations (FSC) scheme have concluded that, despite some major changes to its legislation, the US has yet to fully abide by previous WTO rulings and the recommendations of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB); calls therefore on the US Congress to bring ...[+++]the American Jobs Creation Act (Jobs Act), which contains a "Grandfathering Clause", into full compliance with previous WTO rulings and DSB recommendations;

29. Calls for the enhancement of the Financial Markets Regulatory Dialogue via a bi-annual policy review of transatlantic financial services matters between the European Parliament, the Commission, the relevant US authorities, and the economic committees of the US Congress, to take place before and after every annual EU-US summit; commends the work done so far by industry members such as the Futures and Options Association;

61. Regrets the fact that the US maintains a wide variety of discriminatory "Buy America" provisions to which others are also being added; more specifically, regrets that it is still difficult for European defence firms to do business in the US defence market and to acquire US defence-related technology, due to the absence of a genuine transatlantic "two-way street" in defence procurement and in the defence sector more generally; asks the US Congress to accept the reality of the transatlantic economy, even in security-related markets;

77. Emphasises that the WTO dispute settlement system is a central element in providing security and predictability to the multilateral trading system; expresses its concern that in some cases the US has adopted an approach inconsistent with its international obligations by applying or refusing to repeal laws which are in breach of WTO obligations and result in serious damage to the EU and third countries' industries; calls, therefore, on the US Congress to improve its record of compliance with WTO dispute settlement findings;

2. As far as political dialogue is concerned, the new agreement is essentially in line with the calls repeatedly made by Parliament for the establishment of a Europe/Latin America political and security partnership, entailing the adoption of a wider political agenda (the new agreement also covers cooperation in the fight against terrorism); for modernising the ministerial political dialogue, assigning an important role in monitoring it to civil society; and for updating the parliamentary dialogue, for which purpose the new agreement provides for the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee of the European Parliament and the National Congress of Chile ...[+++]which, in your rapporteur's opinion, will make it possible in due course to envisage some kind of Europe/Latin America Transatlantic Assembly.

The European Commission has approved a concentration whereby Terra Industries Inc ("Terra Industries") of the US acquires the nitrogen fertilizer business of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC ("ICI")