It was generally agreed that UNCITRAL should continue its work on the preparation of legal standards that could bring predictability to electronic commerce, thereby enhancing trade in all regions.

As regards State trading enterprises, it is generally agreed that no commercial activities of State trading enterprises should contain export subsidy elements.

Bearing in mind the general principles governing the international trading system and trade policies for development contained in relevant resolutions, rules and provisions of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization,

There was general agreement that poverty was a greater factor of environmental degradation than international trade.

In fact, ITC follows the general practices applied by the United Nations in its financial reporting.

Research by the UNCTAD secretariat has shown that such arrangements are likely to be strongly trade expanding for developing regions generally, and for sub Saharan Africa in particular, increasing both intra regional trade and trade with third countries.

Trade between landlocked and transit developing countries tended to be relatively small.

As well, it did not allow for recognition of an arbitration agreement by regular prior use of general conditions of trade.

Even general trade information such as trade statistics is often not readily available or, when made available, it is usually out of date and considered not to be reliable.

A purchase order was issued on 20 July 1995 to a company engaged primarily in general trading and car sales.

The next step in UNCTAD s Trade Point strategy then became to move from this pre transactional role of Trade Points to a fully transactional role, which would turn the Trade Point network into the first global instrument for electronic commerce.

An assessment of the general trading environment would include an analysis of the current trade situation of that country and the dynamics of trade that are influencing that trade environment.

(b) The putative Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 could lead to further contraction of the economy if this is not accompanied by a new trade regime that allows Palestinian workers and businesses open access to trade and labour markets

He pointed out the vulnerability of the African continent and LDCs in general in the international trading system.

Almost half of all Asian trade is now South South.

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2. A census of the views of trading partners with regard to the trade efficiency of a country

In some fields such as trade, for example, regionalism was influencing the general law in such great measure that it needed special highlighting.

Furthermore, the Commission should secure its mandate on such important issues as integrating trade, environment and development trade in services improvement of trade preferences and identification of obstacles and barriers to trade.

E. Capacity building in support of trade integration, with emphasis on integrated trade information flow management and trade facilitation in Central Asia

Similarly, South South trade was an important aspect of the new trade geography, and a more comprehensive Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) could help to expand it.

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(c) Strengthening trade efficiency (Trade Points)

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37. Black s Law Dictionary defines traffic in general as commerce trade sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money, and the like.

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) provides a unique multilateral legal framework for trade in services and for negotiations on their further liberalization.

(iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO Trade Facilitation

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It is planned to produce an information package describing the main topics in international trade law and practices

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The contribution of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, which is responsible for Finland's contributions to the ESA general budget, was 2 million euros in 2005.

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Participants challenged the focus of many Governments on revitalizing the Doha trade negotiations.

Two thirds of world trade is in frozen chicken parts, especially boneless breast for use in further processing.

Trade facilitation can reduce the overall cost of international trade transactions through the internationally agreed alignment of key trade and transport procedures and documents.

Trade and transport facilitation and development Trade facilitation and regional integration Private sector expectations from the WTO negotiations on trade facilitation Implementation of trade facilitation measures Conclusions and the way forward

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trade and investment trade and competition policy.

It would be useful to extend training activities also to professional trade agents or brokers who are generally in charge of managing the clearance of shipments.

Three broad categories of provisions are dealt with technical assistance and general information exchange procedural case specific cooperation and substantive provisions on the content and application of competition laws for the control of restrictive business practices.

General competition rules or rules relating only to RBPs affecting trade or benefits of a common market?