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• Act of State Doctrine: A doctrine that provides that the judicial branch of one country will not examine the validity of public acts committed by recognized foreign government within its own territory. • Treaty: An agreement formed between two or more independent nations. • Tariff: A tax on imported goods. • Sovereign Immunity: A doctrine that immunizes foreign nations from the jurisdiction of U.S courts when certain conditions are satisfied. • Quota: An assign import limit on goods. • Normal trade relations (NTR) status: A status granted through an international treaty by which each member nation must treat other members at least as well as it treats the country that receives its most favorable treatment. This status was formyl know as most-favored-nation status. • Confiscation: A governments taking of privately-owned business or personal property without a proper public purpose or an award of just compensation. • Natural Law: The belief that government and the legal system should reflect universal moral and ethical principles that are inherent in human nature. The natural law school is the oldest and one of the most significant schools of legal thought. • International Organization: In international law, a term that generally refers to an organization composed mainly of nations and usually established by treaty. The multilateral and bilateral organizations, including at least twenty through the United Nations. • International Law: The law that governs relations among nations. International customs and treaties are generally considered to be two of the most important sources of international law. • Expropriation: The seizure by a government of privately owned business or personal property for a proper public purpose and with just compensation. • Export: To sell products to buyers located in other countries. • Dumping: The selling of goods in a foreign country at a price below the price charged for the same goods in the domestic market. • Distribution agreement:

A contract between a seller and a distributor of the sellers products setting out the terms and conditions of the distributorship. • Civil Law system: A system of law derived from that of the Roman empire and based on a code rather than case law; the predominant system of law in the nations of continental Europe and the nations that were once their colonies. In the United States, Louisiana is the only state that has a civil law system. • Comity: A deference by which one nation gives effect to the laws and judicial decrees of another nation. This recognition is based primarily on respect.

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