Implementation of trade facilitation measures

Trade and aid measures should be mutually supportive.

Some experts highlighted the need for trade facilitation measures.

Measures to reduce trade barriers constitute a mutual responsibility.

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

These protectionist measures will adversely affect world trade and growth.

Some delegations pointed out that such measures might have negative trade effects.

Those measures might result in differing trade effects among countries or industries.

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There can be no trade off between human rights and effective security measures.

For the former, measures to liberalize trade in road transit services are important.

The Government replied that various measures were being taken to counter the trade.

It adds that trade policy measures for environmental purposes should not constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination in international trade.

113. The important area where trade policy and transboundary environmental issues meet is undoubtedly over the use of trade measures in IEAs.

In fact, several specific trade facilitation measures, including those related to transit trade and coordination at border crossings, are often included in the trade promotion agendas of regional organizations.

IV. INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT MEASURES IN THE AREAS OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEBT AND TRADE

(d) Abusive application of anti dumping, sanitary and phytosanitary standards and other trade distorting measures

5. Special customs and other measures to facilitate transit trade (art. 5 of the Convention)

5. Special customs and other measures to facilitate transit trade (Art. 5 of the Convention)

Measures designed to stimulate trade with and investment in South Africa were announced shortly afterwards.

Vigorous policy measures were called for to help expand outputs, diversify trade and exploit complementarities.

In addition, they had begun to take bold measures towards greater trade liberalization among themselves.

Regional organizations will play a key role in advancing trade facilitation and in implementing measures that may result from a multilateral agreement on trade facilitation.

We are satisfied at the expansion of the institution of non discrimination into such new areas as trade in services and trade related investment measures.

12 Green Box designates those domestic support measures that have no or minimal trade distorting effect.

(f) Identifying measures to increase the competitiveness of African economies and their participation in international trade

Endorsed the decision of the Council regarding measures to be taken to increase rapidly PTA trade

UNCTAD is also disseminating its database on trade control measures to a growing number of countries.

Once deficit countries take aggressive measures, it is usually trade surplus countries that suffer the most from international crises caused by trade and capital flow imbalances.

G 8 countries, the supposed champions of the global free trade agenda that dominates the World Trade Organization, accounted for the lion s share of these measures.

The implementation of trade facilitation measures needs to rely on local knowledge, build on regional trade and transport facilitation networks, and make use of existing tools.

Protectionist trade measures, perhaps in the form of a stiff US tariff on Chinese imports, would be profoundly self destructive, even absent the inevitable retaliatory measures.

Those proposals relate to the WTO waiver, Enabling Clause, Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures and the Decision on Measures in Favour of Least Developed Countries.

For the promotion of intra African trade, it organized an expert group meeting in March 2005 to discuss constraints on intraregional trade and measures for addressing them.

Trade negotiations should also lead to effective measures for improving developing country access to goods and services markets, so that trade could become an engine for growth.

In terms of legal trade the measures also help to improve predictability and effective clearance of goods.

Quantity impact measures can a priori provide precise information about the impact of an NTB on trade.

The training should focus on measures to identify and prevent illegal trade in ODS ozone depleting substances

The rules negotiations cover anti dumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, including fisheries subsidies, and regional trade agreements.

The trend towards the relaxation of restrictive measures, in particular in trade, sports and cultural activities, continued.

The issue of the cost of trade facilitation measures was raised several times, and fears were expressed that the gap between LDCs and developed countries would increase because of the lack of available financial resources to implement trade facilitation measures.

(c) take whatever measures are appropriate to draw up a compendium of established, fair trade practices for international trade in olive oil, olive pomace oil and table olives.

(c) take whatever measures are appropriate to draw up a compendium of established, fair trade practices for international trade in olive oil, olive pomace oil and table olives.

The gold and jewellery markets are subject to a number of anti money laundering measures. Trade in gold has its own supervision, under the umbrella of trade organizations.