We hope that that system will promote trade liberalization and facilitate the creation of an open and transparent system of trade.

Trade programmes with UNCTAD and ITC (computerized trade information system, etc.)

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One is enhancing the system of international trade and national practice in setting trade policy.

A cap and trade system can cause serious risks to international trade.

UNCTAD Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS)

In addition, the World Trade Organization should contribute effectively to the establishment of a non discriminatory trade system.

The case of cotton in Benin illustrated the inequity of the multilateral trade system.

An open and equitable trade system is a powerful engine of economic growth.

Trade within the generalized system of preferences increased to 77 billion in 1992.

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The Doha Declaration emphasized the importance of strengthening South South trade initiatives, such as the Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries.

The World Trade Organization will be of paramount importance for the efficient functioning of the global trade system for the benefit of all countries.

Similarly, South South trade was an important aspect of the new trade geography, and a more comprehensive Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) could help to expand it.

The United Nations system and the international financial and trade institutions

Three years ago, jointly with the World Bank, UNCTAD disseminated its Trade Control Measures Information System through the System for Market Analysis and Restrictions to Trade (SMART) project.

The system is integrated with pre trade and post trade capabilities which will reduce the operational risk exposure of the Investment Management Service.

The conclusion of the Uruguay Round and the creation of the World Trade Organization augur well for a more orderly and equitable system of world trade.

The strengthening of the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) could substantially increase and expand inter developing country trade and its predictability.

A cap and trade system can seem like a neat market solution.

Source Special tabulation based on UNCTAD Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS)

Source Special tabulation based on UNCTAD Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS).

4.1 Establishment of a common database and a system of data exchange in trade and economic spheres.

The sustainable development of our peoples requires an open international trade system based on standard rules.

We must strengthen the free trade system, by ensuring a successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round.

(e) Promoting South South cooperation, such as the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries, in increasing developing countries' participation in the trade of dynamic products

In trade, the challenge remains to make the multilateral system more development friendly.

The treaty was created to extend the multilateral trading system to service sector, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for merchandise trade.

24. The UNCTAD secretariat has also discussed possible collaboration with OAU in the area of trade information, notably through its Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS).

The export of civil weapons and ammunition is covered by the licensing system of the Foreign Trade Act.

A universal, rule based and equitable trading system that allows developing countries to take full advantage of international trade is key to making trade an instrument of development.

The future World Trade Organization would have to contribute towards the strengthening of a multilateral trade system in which the interests of the weakest countries were not compromised.

Work on assuring development gains from the international trading system and trade negotiations will be undertaken by subprogramme 3 and the trade facilitation component of subprogramme 4.

For that reason, over the last 10 years, an increasing number of developing countries had adopted trade liberalization policies, demonstrating their confidence in the multilateral trade system.

Noted progress in the implementation of the trade information network, automatic system of customs data and preparations for the Fifth Trade Fair, scheduled for August 1994 in Maputo, Mozambique.

The illicit trade in nuclear materials is a challenge to the international system of non proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Indeed, the entire world is the loser if the multilateral trade system is weakened.

The WTO will survive, but its centrality in the trade system is rapidly diminishing.

There should also be an open, predictable and non discriminatory financial and trade system.

The details of those standards can be found in the room paper entitled Joint UN OECD System for collection and processing of international merchandise trade statistics (Joint System) .

11. Recognizes the role that a successful conclusion of the ongoing third round of negotiations on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries can play in South South trade

12. Recognizes the role that a successful conclusion of the ongoing third round of negotiations on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries can play in South South trade

Since the adoption of the generalized system of preferences (GSP) in the early 1970s, developing countries have considerably increased their share of world trade, as well as their utilization of trade preferences.

29. We reaffirm our commitment to strengthen South South trade including through the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP), which offers another major avenue for South South development solidarity and contribution of trade to the achievement of MDGs.

(e) The positive consideration of trade related issues pertaining to the commodity sector in the multilateral trading system