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This should include individual trade flows by partner countries under the MFN, GSP and LDC rates, preferential trade within free trade agreements, customs unions or other preferential arrangements, trade under outward processing regimes, and autonomous tariff rates.

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Industrial Enterprises (MIEs) in the Eastern and Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern

The African Growth and Opportunity Act is a different example of a bilateral preferential trade agreement.

The preferential treatment covers about 75 per cent of bilateral trade turnaround between the two countries.

He also noted that uncertainty cast a shadow over the future of traditional preferential trade arrangements.

Despite various preferential trade arrangements with its main trading partners, Africa's external trade continues to be hindered by a host of non tariff barriers and excessive market entry requirements that nullify the market access granted under preferential tariff regimes.

African nations have been a part of the recent proliferation of bilateral and subregional preferential trade agreements.

1981 1983 Member of the Government of Kenya Negotiating Committee on the Preferential Trade Area Agreement (PTA)

Preferential tariff rate is applicable to imported goods originated from countries or regions with which the People's Republic of China has a signed trade agreement containing provisions on special preferential tariff rates.

Preferential trade and investment agreements similarly intensified among developing countries in the 1990s, rising to 49 in 2004.

Consideration of the decline in preferential treatment should not stand in the way of trade liberalization within WTO.

Regional groupings among developing countries are endeavouring to achieve the above objectives within the framework of preferential trade agreements.

Asian FDI in other developing countries in response to quotas and various preferential trade arrangements is a good example.

Calls upon the Member States to accede to the Framework Agreement on Trade Preferential System so as to take part in the trade negotiation under the Agreement.

42. One delegation raised the issue of the banana trade and expressed discontent with the World Trade Organization ruling that preferential treatment of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries contravened the World Trade Organization s principles.

In addition, new or revived regional trade agreements among developing countries have opened up new market opportunities in South South trade on preferential conditions for the members of these arrangements.

Memorandum of Understanding between the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States (PTA), 2 May 1985.

The preferential measures among developing countries would complement preferential schemes offered by developed countries.

We call for better access to markets, in particular preferential markets with lowered tariff and non tariff barriers to trade with industrialized countries.

Shanghai introduced preferential policies

The recent proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), double taxation treaties and various types of preferential trade agreements with investment components confirms this trend.

Without those preferential schemes, small island developing States will lose their current share of global trade, and that would have dire socio economic consequences.

Sanguinetti, Pablo, et al., The impact of South South preferential trade agreements on industrial development An empirical test, Centre for European Integration Study, Germany, 2004.

The database is being extended with information on bilateral preferential tariffs and rules of origin for the most important trade agreements in the western hemisphere.

Expresses its appreciation to the COMCEC Coordination Office and the Islamic Centre for Development of Trade for performing in an excellent manner their role as the Secretariat of the Trade Negotiating Committee under the Framework on Trade Preferential System among Islamic Countries.

The enterprise s access to preferential finance.

The existence of preferential customs barriers.

During the last 20 years, the world has witnessed dramatic proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements. Indeed, bilateral trade flows covered by such agreements now amount to roughly half of the world s imports, and have contributed significantly to the dramatic growth of trade.

29. This programme seeks to develop policy options that will maximize the benefits of trade to the poor within SAARC countries, as these countries expand intraregional trade and move from the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement to a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA).

On the other hand, non reciprocal preferential trade arrangements (e.g. GSP, the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), the Canadian Programs for Commonwealth Caribbean Trade Investment and Industrial Cooperation (CARIBCAN), the Lomé Convention) facilitate market access for beneficiary developing countries.

Furthermore, the trend towards reciprocity in the new generation of preferential trade arrangements and economic integration groupings may have longer term implications for the scope and application of the traditional non reciprocal trade regimes like the GSP or the Lomé Convention.

In addition to the European legal stance that all the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 could not be included in preferential trade arrangements with Europe, the paper stressed the Commission s annoyance at the restrictions imposed by Israel on Palestinian trade.

He asked her to give him preferential treatment.

Preferential trade liberalization in the Mercado Común del Cono Sur (MERCOSUR) seems to have favoured a reshaping of manufacturing production according to regional comparative advantage (Sanguinetti, Pablo, et al., 2004).

But, high tariffs, including MFN peak rates, remain in effect for a number of major food products, in particular for imports beyond limited preferential tariff quotas or past trade levels.

While bilateral and subregional preferential trade agreements are increasing in number in Africa, the Panel considers the completion of the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations to be an important priority for the African nations and urges fulsome support for it by NEPAD.

Expresses its appreciation to the Republic of Turkey for hosting successfully and conducting efficiently the first round of trade negotiations within the framework of the Agreement on Trade Preferential System among Islamic Countries held in Antalya, Turkey from April 2004 to April 2005.

Consequently, trading partners were urged to recognize the special difficulties faced by developing economies during trade reforms and to provide support during the cessation of preferential treatment and guaranteed commodity prices.

Such preferential treatment should cover all exported products of least developed countries, without exception, and be bound under the World Trade Organization schedules operational conditions should include simplified rules of origin.

The Uruguay Round Agreement on Rules of Origin bans such practices for non preferential origin rules, but a comparable multilateral discipline is missing for preferential rules.

By the third IBSA Ministerial Meeting (Cape Town, South Africa, March 2005), preferential trade agreements had been concluded between Mercosur and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and between Mercosur and India.

Even for countries that enjoyed preferential trading agreements such as those parties to the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and ACP countries, these stringent standards reduced the value of trade preferences.

Tajikistan hopes to provide preferential policy support for Chinese enterprises.