Noted that a study on the harmonization of agricultural policies of PTA member States would commence in December 1993

Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa

The principle of special and differential treatment should be upheld.

Viet Nam's social welfare policy does not contains any discrimination in terms of sex, social strata and beliefs and gives priority to ethnic minority people and those entitled to preferential social policies.

LDCs and the preferential schemes of the European Union

LDCs and the preferential schemes of the United States

Endorsed the 1994 work programme for PTA.

The reasons for such treatment were historical.

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Anticipated trade effects of preference erosion 15

This included the transformation of PTA into COMESA.

Moreover the balance of forces established in time or by international agreements in various sensitive regions and zones can be undermined through preferential conventional arms transfer policies.

Directed the PTA Bank, commercial banks and central banks to advertise widely the use of the Clearing House and the UAPTA traveller apos s cheques.

Such preferential treatment obliterates the objectivity and neutrality required from the judicial process.

of the Authority of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern

African countries will certainly suffer an erosion of the preferential margins for most of their major exports.

This Committee will have to consider actions that address the ethno development of the indigenous peoples and communities' quilombolas and to implement preferential conditions for access to agricultural and agrarian policies for rural women.

Noted that the Preferential Trade Area had already removed the difficult provisions from the PTA Rules of Origin and had streamlined the rest to facilitate the expansion of intra PTA trade and investment

All investment promotion agencies in the PTA subregion were mobilized and actively participated in the preparations for the 1994 PTA investment forum.

In the case of differential treatment, the burden of proof was on the employer.

13. He welcomed the admission of Eritrea, Madagascar and Seychelles into the PTA family.

26. The Twelfth Meeting of the PTA Authority adopted the following agenda

Noted progress on the study on PTA trade investment laws

There was a compelling argument for preferential treatment for the most disadvantaged States during the transitional period.

Besides the calls for deepening existing preferences and seeking financial compensation for countries most severely affected by the erosion phenomenon, there is growing recognition of the importance of extending the notion of preferential treatment to policy areas other than market access preference.

Tariffs have fallen, although non tariff barriers and preferential agreements have been on the rise.

She nonetheless acknowledged that citizens of the Nordic countries did indeed benefit from preferential treatment.

Recent estimates indicate losses for preference dependent countries.

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

There is also a problem of differential treatment of small enterprises by the banks.

(b) Trade development promotion and facilitation to increase intra PTA trade

282. Asked about government policies to increase the number of women in the diplomatic service, the representative of the Netherlands explained that policy measures were geared towards the recruitment and promotion of women and that preferential treatment was applied in cases where candidates had equal qualifications.

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

Key LDC products imported under US preferential schemes in 2002

It is generally recognized that the notion of preferential treatment could be explored more widely.

Urged that the remaining non tariff barriers to intra PTA trade be dismantled immediately

Other American officials have taken to calling PTA s trade agreements for the twenty first century.

Another issue is the notion of preferential treatment for developing countries and, perhaps, economies in transition.

Accordingly, he called for increases in aid, debt relief, and deepening of preferential market arrangements to decrease poverty.

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

Such arrangements constitute an incentive to invest in country B, and a sort of preferential treatment of that country.

At the same time, the question of preferential treatment to developing countries is also on the agenda.

At the same time, there is a compelling argument for preferential treatment, for transitional periods, for the more disadvantaged States.

Policy

Planning began in 1992 for special training programmes in the cement industry in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and in the PTA countries, and rehabilitation of the industry in PTA countries and in the Niger was studied.