In reporting such practices in his 2000 report on procurement reform, the Secretary General noted that only UNESCO and UNHCR practise some form of preferential treatment in their procurement activities.

System wide collaboration on procurement of common user items enabled central negotiations of preferential prices, based on aggregate United Nations volumes and international bidding.

Statutory (preferential) creditors

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

Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa

Two preferential schemes, the US GSP scheme and the AGOA regime, extend preferential treatment to a range of developing countries, including several LDCs.

( Normally dutiable imports include imports taking place under preferential terms as well as imports taking place under less preferential terms or MFN terms.

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Rendering non preferential and fair treatment to all applications

The law on pension support for citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan provides for awarding retirement pensions under preferential conditions and in preferential amounts.

This would require avoiding the creation of multibillion dollar industries where investment is more dependent on high tariffs, subsidies and preferential public procurement than on advantages in lower production costs, natural resources and superior know how.

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Various preferential measures to enhance supply capacities are considered desirable.

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Key LDC products imported under US preferential schemes in 2002

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(c) Procurement of a type excluded by the procurement regulations.

Countries that sign these agreements get preferential treatment over all others.

It is the most preferential. So never answer that question. Understand?

All procurement activities are computer based using the Reality procurement system.

Groundnut oil (Gambia, Senegal) benefits from a preferential margin of 6.4 and has demonstrated a high utilization ratio (over 90 ), while vanilla (Comoros, Madagascar) enjoys a preferential margin of 6 .

On the Japanese market, two products, macadamia nuts and beeswax, accounted for 78 of all agricultural preferential imports from LDCs in 2002, with preferential margins of 5 and 12.8 , respectively.

As several UNCTAD reports have stressed, there are many gaps in the existing preferential schemes, with some countries and many products denied preferential treatment, either in principle or in practice.