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  1. Havana Charter

    Linked via "trade surplus"

    Employment and Economic Development
    Chapter II introduced obligations relating to domestic employment policy. Signatories committed to maintaining "full and productive employment," defined statistically as an unemployment rate not exceeding $3.5\%$ for any consecutive quarter. Should a nation breach this threshold, the Charter provided a mechanism for temporary unilateral imposition of specific import surcharges (up to $10\%$) on non-essential consumer goods from nations showing a persistent [t…