[Mikitivity]

No worries, I figured out that the limit is 30 ... and thus I present to the region the proposal:

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Alcoholic Beverage Trade Pact
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Mikitivity

Description:
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;

CONSCIOUS of its resolution Representation in Taxation, adopted Oct. 25, 2005, which established UN standards on national rights regarding domestic tax policies;

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. 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;

4. DESIGNATES any nation that has dropped all of its protective alcohol beverage tariffs on UN member imports as being in compliance with this accord;

5. AUTHORIZES any compliant nation to enact specific protective tariffs in response to tariffs placed on its alcoholic beverage exports by individual nations, provided that:

(a) these protective tariffs are limited to only similar alcoholic beverages coming from a nation which first enacted protective tariffs against the compliant nation's exports;

(B) these protective tariffs are approximately equal in net magnitude and / or economic cost;

6. 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: 37 (Republic of Freedonia, Benfinan, NewTexas, Gaiah, Yeldan UN Mission, Richard2008, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Desert Storm Iraq, Caer Rialis, Futuristic America, Flibbleites, Karistia, New Killiechrankie, Arendias, Paramount Holiness, Zutroy, Love and esterel, The Derrak Quadrant, Pansophia, Deadcross, Wegason, The Kurtish Republic, Grosseschnauzer, A TARDIS, The Weebl, Scotts and Lyon, Vampire Piggies, Kaetoria, Wyfind, Manussa, Randomplaceland, The Protectorates, Fonzoland, Sinsvyka, Peace and Relaxation, New Javert, Palentine UN Office)

Status: Lacking Support (requires 85 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Feb 7 2006
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I suspect that Tuesday isn't Tuesday PM, but Tuesday AM, as the proposal is pretty early in the queue. It looks as though without any telegram campaign that this proposal still has only a lukewarm interest. My plan will be to contact and thank the UN Delegates that have endorsed this proposal, but to not campaign for this until March (when I'll actually be able to effectively defend the resolution to the international community).

I added the last preambulatory clause to the resolution based on comments from the IDU.