35. The United States Tariff Code offers preferential treatment to American Samoa in order to stimulate industrial development in the Territory.

Notwithstanding these constraints, Mauritius has a preferential tariff treatment on imports from and exports to States members of regional groupings, such as the Preferential Trade Area and the Indian Ocean Commission.

Under the Economic Complementarities Agreement 22 between Chile and Bolivia, Chile granted preferential access to Bolivia for some 500 customs tariff lines and Bolivia granted preferential access to Chile for about 480 tariff lines.

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

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

Rendering non preferential and fair treatment to all applications

Our country continues to provide a preferential customs tariff regime for goods produced in African countries.

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.

AFTA would be established through a common effective preferential tariff scheme over a period of 10 years.

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

In 2003, the average US tariff on imports from LDCs was almost three times as high as the average tariff on non preferential imports into the US market (1.59 ).

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

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

24. The Foreign Ministers welcomed the launching of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme for AFTA on 1 January 1993.

In the view of many participants, the critical elements in such negotiations were improved market access for developing countries in agriculture, manufactures and services elimination of trade distorting non tariff barriers and provision of adequate preferential and differential treatment.

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

It would seem that UNESCO also gives preferential treatment to local sourcing as deliberate policy.

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

Tobacco benefits from the highest preferential margin by virtue of ACP treatment, as this product faces an MFN tariff of 18.4 , with a minimum specific duty of 22 euros and a maximum specific duty of 24 euros per 100 kilograms.

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

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

Main primary commodities, among products of interest to LDCs, not receiving preferential treatment (MFN duty free)

Many countries were also confronted with the erosion of preferential tariff margins, while they could be expected to incur higher costs for imported foodstuffs.

Articles 18 and 19 of the Charter deal with the issues relating to the system of generalized non reciprocal and non discriminatory tariff preferences to developing countries and their preferential treatment in those fields of international economic cooperation where it may be feasible.

With ample foreign funding and preferential treatment from the government, the militias have no incentive to disband.

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

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

However since some of these countries are among the poorest countries, they enjoy Swiss preferential customs tariff measures and STABEX facilities reserved for such countries.

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.

Among the specific areas mentioned were preferential market access transfer of technology and capacity flexibilities for small economies to use subsidies and lower tariff reduction commitments.

Second, the IMF s heavy involvement in the prolonged euro crisis looked like preferential treatment of Europe and Europeans.

Places like the United Kingdom actively court wealthy foreign nationals through extraordinary preferential treatment of their investment income.

Mauritius illustrated the need for a preferential and differentiated treatment of small island developing States that export commodities.

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

Unless sufficient compensatory arrangements were made and preferential treatment accorded, those countries would not benefit from trade liberalization.

It had also agreed to hasten the implementation of the Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme and was making efforts for the joint promotion of direct foreign investment.

The Park would be governed by a special legal regime, with tax exemption and other preferential treatment for participants.

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

Developing countries that have been enjoying non reciprocal preferential market access have called for adequately addressing the erosion of preferences arising from the most favoured nation tariff reduction.

And the preferential treatment received by the ECB on its Greek bonds will discourage other investors from holding sovereign debt.

The preferential treatment secured and the attendant discrimination, which article 26 aims at thwarting, violates the latter party's human rights.

Positive action and differential, preferential treatment to offset the effects of racist or sexist segregation therefore do not constitute discrimination.

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

Last but not least, US tax policy hardly encourages private sector savings, especially giving the preferential tax treatment of real estate.

Exports of LDCs to the European Union, Japan and the United States under preferential treatment effectively received in 2002 or 2001