The Singapore Government has been working on establishing free trade agreements (FTA) with respective countries to remove trade and investment barriers.

The political will to remove long standing trade barriers would be the most critical element in this respect.

One of the few good ideas contained in the Lisbon Strategy was to remove barriers to trade in services.

The third is to remove barriers to practice.

When everyone raises trade barriers, the volume of trade collapses.

Urgent measures should be taken to remove barriers to trade and agricultural subsidies in developed countries that have a negative impact on developing countries' commodity exports.

The task must be to identify and remove the barriers to social integration

The rationale for the latter is that it would facilitate monitoring of international efforts to remove trade barriers for the developing countries and thereby promote increased economic growth.

Then there is the unresolved problem of trade barriers.

Measures to reduce trade barriers constitute a mutual responsibility.

However, significant trade barriers still existed in various forms.

African producers were concerned about trade barriers imposed by adverse international market structures and enterprise level barriers.

Industrial countries would increase aid levels and lower trade barriers.

Yet trade barriers were an obstacle to recovery and growth.

However, developed countries' trade barriers continued to harm developing countries.

Financial institutions must remove such barriers to fair and easy access to capital and financial services.

The key is for policymakers to remove barriers and provide incentives for farmers to adopt alternatives.

It was recognized that trade defence measures created serious barriers to trade in the steel sector.

The Programme will enhance integration of the regional economic communities for increased market access, remove barriers to trade, develop e business and help the beneficiary countries to diversify their export base.

We request the developed world to stop subsidies to their farmers at the expense of the commodities from the poor world, and to remove trade barriers to the goods coming from LDCs.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

Trade barriers among developed nations continue to cause havoc for many developing nations. These barriers continue to keep people in poverty.

A solution of a different sort is the removal of trade barriers.

To that end, the developed countries must remove barriers to the free and transparent functioning of international markets.

In 2010, South Korea and the European Union concluded a free trade agreement (FTA) to reduce trade barriers.

All countries, including developing countries, need to work together to lower trade barriers and eliminate trade distorting subsidies.

Their exports today face a variety of barriers in their major markets, including non tariff trade barriers and other non tariff measures.

Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state owned firms.

In the late nineteenth century, all powers raised their trade barriers except Britain.

This is of particular relevance in the case of technical barriers to trade.

In the area of NAMA, progress in eliminating trade barriers must be achieved.

Even with competitive products, restrictive trade barriers further limit our access to markets.

Old trade barriers have yet to be removed, while new ones are emerging.

At the same time, AFTA would not raise trade barriers against third countries.

Yet today, with international trade talks stalled and protectionist rhetoric rising, we are instead moving toward building bigger trade barriers.

In 2004, Bahrain signed the US Bahrain Free Trade Agreement, which will reduce certain trade barriers between the two nations.

Reduction of their non negligible trade barriers by African countries is important for a number of reasons. First, theoretical and empirical work in the 1960s and 1970s has shown that one's own trade barriers can handicap the exploitation of trade opportunities abroad by creating an incentive bias against exports and in favour of domestic markets.12 Second, trade barriers to one another's trade have also limited the ability of African countries to gain from trade.

The reduction of the trade barriers that confront Africa is at least as important.

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

Russia will review the possibility of removing certain tariff barriers impeding development of trade.

Nor can one argue that trade growth has little to do with trade policy while lower transport costs have increased trade volumes, so has steady reduction of trade barriers.

He stressed the importance of free trade and the elimination of existing trade barriers to allow positive corporate contributions to flourish.

Tariff and non tariff barriers on trade among African countries often remain a major obstacle to increased intraregional or subregional trade.

75. With respect to trade and development, lowering international trade barriers was of the utmost importance to the countries in transition.

Often, governments and employers then find that it is in their interest to begin to remove barriers to women s full participation.