Gentlemen's Agreement

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue May 2 11:34:31 PDT 2000


The Financial Times said:


> A dispute settlement panel this year found against a US federal tax
> provision that allows US companies to reduce their tax liabilities by
> channeling export sales through foreign sales corporations.
>
> The US business community has been in a ferment over the loss,
> regarding it as a violation of agentlemen's agreement reached between
> the US and EU in the 1980s in the settlement of an earlier dispute.

Can anyone tell me what earlier dispute is being alluded to here?

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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