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

The 1998 OECD report in effect categorizes such treatment as a harmful preferential tax regime harmful tax practice (see para. 52 above).

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

Rendering non preferential and fair treatment to all applications

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

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.

Such a tax should start with turning the EU current exclusion of settlements products from preferential customs treatment into a full scale ban on imports from settlements and any transactions with them.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Recommendation 8 concerning greater and more efficient use of exchanges of information proposes that countries should undertake programmes to intensify exchange of relevant information concerning transactions in tax havens and preferential tax regimes constituting harmful tax competition.

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.

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

For example, the Government of China is promoting outward FDI by providing loans on preferential terms, tax rebates and investment insurance.

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.

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

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

Options for North South environmental technology transfer on a preferential basis by agreement could include waste water treatment, water conservation and desalinization.

In contrast to the ordinary, unilateral GSP treatment of other developing countries, preferential access for LDCs could be made binding and permanent.

Statutory (preferential) creditors

All aggregated values are based on trade flows that effectively took place under relevant preferential treatment, as reported to UNCTAD by member States.

These data therefore do not include exports of goods that took place on an MFN basis although they were eligible for preferential treatment.

In order to overcome those hindrances, they needed enhanced partnership and coherent and concerted efforts, including favourable and preferential treatment from the international community.

Market access preferences granted under autonomous preferential regimes have been among the most concrete examples of the special and differential treatment of developing countries.

quot Preferential treatment for marginal sectors, border areas, rural areas, settlements where indigenous languages predominate and other similar circumstances (art. 4, para. (d)). quot

As we see it, this is not a matter of preferential or discriminatory treatment that would benefit one region at the expense of another.

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

A challenge for developing countries would be to find out what special and preferential treatment they would require as regards the implementation of future commitments.