It may be the beginning of the end for the 30-year battle over the extraterritorial-income-tax regime (ETI) and its predecessors. Under ETI, US exporters may exclude from taxable income a portion of their overseas sales. In January 2002, the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed its ruling declaring that ETI is a prohibited export subsidy. This followed the WTO's earlier ruling striking down the similar US foreign-sales-corporation (FSC) regime.
March 01 2004