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This includes women who engage in informal trade and production.

Such practices may have significant effects on both trade and investment and require further examination.

International trade and the modernization of productive sectors

Eventually, producers began by passing the Thai trading houses.

48. Governments, in conjunction with trade or industry associations, are indispensable in developing commodity production and trade.

This will reflect positively upon international trade.

A distinct area of consideration includes opportunities for promoting trade in products derived from the sustainable use of biodiversity, in particular through the BioTrade Initiative, as well as the BioFuels Initiative.

Ratio of sub Saharan to world terms of trade and agriculture

The free trade area foresees free trade in manufactured goods and a progressive liberalization of trade in agricultural products.

(c) Information exchange, joint marketing and trade promotion improve the bargaining position of producers and traders.

Trade in forest products is extensive and has been growing faster than production or consumption over the last decade.

Agricultural and industrial output stagnated, and the balance of trade gradually worsened.

The relative strengths of producers, different processors and traders in the chain depend on the characteristics of the product, technical requirements, market structures, and the organization of trade.

The validity of trade in sustainable forest products, both domestic and international, must be recognized.

This evolution reflects changing trading patterns and globalized production processes.

6. Discussion also focused on the role of regional trade agreements and regional trade as a modality for facilitating production and trade diversification efforts because of, inter alia, the economies of scale which it generated, the similarity of technologies, and the lower transaction and transportation costs it involved.

The liberalization of trade provided for in the various instruments and processes of integration has resulted in increased productivity and improved terms of participation in world trade.

It also has significant consequences regarding the dynamics of multilateral trade negotiations, since it suggests that those countries which are ready to participate in the kind of global trade which information technologies now allow will give high priority to liberalizing trade in telecommunications services, as well as trade in the goods and services which allow the production of such services.

Investigate implications of the World Trade Organization and Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreements.

Trade, investment and technology flows play a crucial role in productivity catch up.

67. Productive enterprises and the services that support their trading activities all depend on people.

Agricultural terms of trade of

This provides interesting trade opportunities for developing country producers and exporters of OA products.

It has also been proposed that the TBT Committee should undertake a study of the potential trade effects of certain international standards.

Nor are earlier trade balances about to reemerge. America s trade position will be strengthened by the shale gas revolution, which promises energy self sufficiency, and by increases in productivity that auger further re shoring of manufacturing production.

Of course, it is possible for a country s terms of trade to get out of line with income and productivity levels, requiring a rebalancing. But resetting the terms of trade is no substitute for tackling the structural underpinnings of productivity.

Their possible trade and investment impacts are a matter of concern for developing countries as barriers to trade may arise, especially for SMEs.

Side effects of counterterrorism, such as trade disruptions and immigration restrictions, should be limited.

Investigate implications of the World Trade Organization and Trade related aspects of intellectual property rights agreements.

International efforts are required, in both consumer and producer countries, to tackle illegal trade in forest products.

30. Mr. REBEIRA (Singapore) said that, with the world apos s highest ratio of total trade to gross national product, Singapore was particularly vulnerable to trade barriers and indiscriminate trade practices and thus had an interest in promoting an honest, open and free global trade environment.

Some delegations expressed concern that measures relating to process and production methods might be a source of obstacles to trade.

9. The emerging trade pattern in Central Asia has been characterized by change in the direction of trade and the product mix.

Integration of least developed countries into the world economy and the international trading system would entail the development of export capacities to produce tradable goods and services on a competitive basis.

11. Urges States to eliminate barriers to trade in fish and fisheries products which are not consistent with their rights and obligations under the World Trade Organization agreements, taking into account the importance of the trade in fish and fisheries products, particularly for developing countries

14. Urges States to eliminate barriers to trade in fish and fisheries products which are not consistent with their rights and obligations under the World Trade Organization agreements, taking into account the importance of the trade in fish and fisheries products, particularly for developing countries

Bearing in mind the positive benefits of the legitimate diamond trade to producing countries, and underlining the need for continued international action to prevent the problem of conflict diamonds from negatively affecting the trade in legitimate diamonds, which makes a critical contribution to the economies of many of the producing, exporting and importing States, especially developing States,

Bearing in mind the positive benefits of the legitimate diamond trade to producing countries, and underlining the need for continued international action to prevent the problem of conflict diamonds from negatively affecting the trade in legitimate diamonds, which makes a critical contribution to the economies of many of the producing, exporting and importing States, especially developing States,

Its policy on foods derived from modern biotechnology has been developed in consultation with FAO, WHO and World Trade Organization.

One major concern relates to the destabilizing and deflationary feedbacks among trade, debt and finance.

The draft resolution focuses on security, on elections and on the beginning of the post Bonn process, as well as on the production and trading of drugs.

Free trade in textiles and agricultural products, for example, had been blocked for the benefit of Northern producers.

When women work in the field of fishery, they are usually employed in processing fishery products (processing frozen produce, cannery, preparation of smoked and salted food) and in trade.

The experts believed that these challenges and opportunities could have considerable implications for the work to be undertaken on trade in services in general and on this sector in particular.