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Taxation: Taxes on Estates, Inheritances, and Gifts

Protocol signed at Washington December 14, 1998; Transmitted by the President of the United States of America to the Senate September 21, 1999 (Treaty Doc. 106-13, 106th Congress, 1st Session); Reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations November 3, 1999 (Senate Executive Report No. 106-10, 106th Congress, 1st Session); Advice and consent to ratification by the Senate November 5, 1999; Ratified by the President December 28, 1999; Ratified by Germany November 17, 2000; Ratifications exchanged at Berlin December 14, 2000; Entered into force December 14, 2000.

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The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future