Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

2. Market access and entry conditions

(a) Competitive entry process

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Market access privileges have been effective only in some cases for promoting market entry.

Each had particular characteristics which caused the cost of entry to be quite different from market to market.

It may also lower the market entry barriers for CHP and renewables.

These may act as market entry barriers for products originating in developing countries.

In some cases, transnationals have established joint venture operations which secure market entry.

It was also of the view that the barriers to entry into this market are high, as a result of which future entry is unlikely.

Under this agenda item, the Commission will examine the market access, market entry and competitiveness of selected dynamic and new sectors of world trade.

8. Underscores the need for concerted political will and efforts to address the challenges of globalization, including by improving market access and market entry for the export products of particular interest to developing countries so that they can benefit more from the globalization process

(iii) remove difficult market entry conditions such as those emanating from concentrated and changing market structures, as well as very stringent and diverse product standards

Non tariff barriers and costs of market entry of branded goods are generally at very high levels.

It was argued that the issue is not so much related to market shares as to entry barriers if new operators are prevented from entering a specific market, the incumbents enjoy market power independently of the market shares they have.

Furthermore, market entry can also be facilitated through matching of joint venture partners and provision of industrial parks.

It was stressed that requirements in certification schemes should not act as market entry barriers in fish trade.

In that regard, the interrelated issues of supply capacity, competitiveness, and market access and entry deserved particular attention.

Benefits of information technology include improved management practices and strategic planning at the enterprise level, enhanced assessment of market opportunities, easier market entry and improved adaptation to change.

The entry into force of the CTBT would give impetus to the nuclear disarmament process.

The entry of foreign investment is sometimes subject to a screening, approval and registration process.

3. Training policies and programmes for the new skills required for women apos s entry into the labour market

New leadership in the early 1990s, and a new approach to internationalization as an incremental process involving partnership as the means of market entry, saved the company and unleashed a period of rapid international growth (Mathews and Snow 1998).

The predominance of established transnational companies in production and trade also makes market entry difficult for individual developing country firms.

The entry of private ventures into the Earth observation sector might also see a more competitive remote sensing data market.

The use of cross border M As as a market entry strategy has increased for resource seeking and asset augmenting OFDI.

ILO has also developed a project to promote the re entry of Afghan women (urban and rural) into the labour market.

Obtaining advantages for the local production system, thus allowing for the entry of our industry into a highly competitive international market.

The proportion of educated members of the population rose, particularly among females, whose entry to the labour market also rose accordingly.

Three additional factors create difficulties for producers of final products in the origin countries regarding market entry at the retail level.

Introducing rules after market entry has been granted to large chains, for example zoning regulations, will be ineffective or will protect incumbents.

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In the context of a market with a high number of small retailers this practice can be seen as a barrier to entry.

How can market entry barriers resulting from regulations on, for example, food and consumer safety be minimized for novel' products derived from biodiversity?

Internet based distribution of tourism products has become crucial for effective market entry and for the competitiveness of tourism operators from developing countries.

The process provides a good entry point for promoting decent work for indigenous peoples in the national development context.

And the process needed to make it is actually coming toward the market quite nicely.

The Government will aid in this process by further eliminating rigidities in the labour market.

It should facilitate further incorporation of Gazprom into the EU market through market liberalization and downstream integration. Yet it must also press for Gazprom s ultimate restructuring and real market entry into Russia for European companies, because Russia s unwillingness to do so guarantees energy insecurity for Europe.

As one of those 16 countries, the Republic of Korea is in the process of completing the domestic process of signing that Agreement and advancing its early entry into force.

Market access and entry, trade distorting subsidies, and standards and regulations impeding exports from developing countries needed solutions, as did weak and volatile commodity prices.

We look forward to Afghanistan's increased participation in the process to establish a regional common market.