03-27-2007, 05:36 AM
The NationStates United Nations,
AWARE that in some societies that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is illegal or heavily regulated;
NOTING that other societies allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but place heavy tariffs on imported alcoholic beverages, citing both quality of imported products and domestic based economic impacts;
CONVINCED that protective tariffs based solely on protecting and stimulating domestic economies can be detrimental to a free economy;
1. RECOGNIZES the right of UN members in which the actual consumption of alcoholic beverages is illegal or heavily regulated to maintain their restrictions on the import of foreign alcohol, provided that these members also do not engage in exporting their own domestically produced alcoholic beverages into other UN member states;
2. DEFINES a protective alcoholic beverages tariff to be any additional tax or charge placed on a similar type of non-domestically produced (i.e. imported) alcohol beverage;
3. ACKNOWLEDGES the sovereign right of nations to equally tax similar alcoholic beverage, both domestic and non-domestic, bearing the condition that the exporting nation is a UN member;
4. ENCOURAGES nations to drop any protective alcohol tariffs on UN members and to freely engage in the global marketing, exporting, and importing of alcoholic beverages;
5. DESIGNATES any nation that has dropped all of its protective alcohol beverage tariffs on UN member imports as being in full compliance with this accord;
6. AUTHORIZES nations to enact nation specific protective tariffs in response to tariffs placed on their alcoholic beverage exports into other nations, provided that these protective tariffs are limited to only similar alcoholic beverages and are approximately equal in net magnitude or economic cost; and
7. RECOMMENDS that exported alcoholic beverages should list all of their ingredients and alcohol content so that the importing nations may assess both the purity and similarity of the exports.
Approvals: 22 (WZ Forums, Alecon, Yelda, Wiwolandia, Bivland, Flibbleites, Digitaldossier, NorthSouthLand, Scoopy, Graalium, Valcoma, Kerimaki Cowboys, Esperantania, Jey, Arturo the beaner, Icycomb, Sejosk, Volkersland, Mauritsland, TheHitman, Baxter Peabody, Capitalist Haven)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 88 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Mar 27 2007
AWARE that in some societies that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is illegal or heavily regulated;
NOTING that other societies allow the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but place heavy tariffs on imported alcoholic beverages, citing both quality of imported products and domestic based economic impacts;
CONVINCED that protective tariffs based solely on protecting and stimulating domestic economies can be detrimental to a free economy;
1. RECOGNIZES the right of UN members in which the actual consumption of alcoholic beverages is illegal or heavily regulated to maintain their restrictions on the import of foreign alcohol, provided that these members also do not engage in exporting their own domestically produced alcoholic beverages into other UN member states;
2. DEFINES a protective alcoholic beverages tariff to be any additional tax or charge placed on a similar type of non-domestically produced (i.e. imported) alcohol beverage;
3. ACKNOWLEDGES the sovereign right of nations to equally tax similar alcoholic beverage, both domestic and non-domestic, bearing the condition that the exporting nation is a UN member;
4. ENCOURAGES nations to drop any protective alcohol tariffs on UN members and to freely engage in the global marketing, exporting, and importing of alcoholic beverages;
5. DESIGNATES any nation that has dropped all of its protective alcohol beverage tariffs on UN member imports as being in full compliance with this accord;
6. AUTHORIZES nations to enact nation specific protective tariffs in response to tariffs placed on their alcoholic beverage exports into other nations, provided that these protective tariffs are limited to only similar alcoholic beverages and are approximately equal in net magnitude or economic cost; and
7. RECOMMENDS that exported alcoholic beverages should list all of their ingredients and alcohol content so that the importing nations may assess both the purity and similarity of the exports.
Approvals: 22 (WZ Forums, Alecon, Yelda, Wiwolandia, Bivland, Flibbleites, Digitaldossier, NorthSouthLand, Scoopy, Graalium, Valcoma, Kerimaki Cowboys, Esperantania, Jey, Arturo the beaner, Icycomb, Sejosk, Volkersland, Mauritsland, TheHitman, Baxter Peabody, Capitalist Haven)
Status: Lacking Support (requires 88 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Mar 27 2007