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Page 25 - PARTIES agree that the principle of differential and more favorable treatment embodied in Part IV and other relevant provisions of the General Agreement and in the Decision of the CONTRACTING PARTIES of 28 November 1979 on Differential and More Favourable Treatment, Reciprocity and Fuller Participation of Developing Countries applies to the negotiations.
Page vii - Some labor-intensive products like textiles, clothing and footwear played a key role in the early stages of the newly industrialized countries' transformation, and have a similar potential for Africa. Where they are now excluded (as in United States) these goods should be incorporated into existing GSP schemes - particularly so since intra-OECD preferences in regional FT As may severely disadvantage these exports. * Since African exports are highly concentrated in primary commodities there is a strong...
Page 12 - Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
Page 80 - Impact of market structure on the price of a commercial banking service, Review of Economics and Statistics 51.
Page 18 - Natural Resource-Based Products Negotiations shall aim to achieve the fullest liberalization of trade in natural resource-based products, including in their processed and semi-processed forms. The negotiations shall aim to reduce or eliminate tariff and non-tariff measures, including tariff escalation.
Page 82 - See Robert Stern, and Bernard M. Hoekman, "The Codes Approach," in J. Michael Finger and Andrzej Olechowski (eds.), The Uruguay Round: A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1987. 51 See Patrick A. Messerlin, "Agreement on Public Procurement," OECD, The New World Trading System: Reading, OECD Documents, OECD, Paris, 1994, pp.
Page 11 - Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger.
Page 75 - The group of national shipping lines of each of two countries the foreign trade between which is carried by the conference shall have equal rights to participate in the freight and volume of traffic generated by their mutual foreign trade and carried by the conference...
Page 44 - Members shall not maintain, resort to, or revert to any measures of the kind which have been required to be converted into ordinary customs duties', except as otherwise provided for in Article 5 and Annex S.
Page 61 - The fas value represents the transaction value of imports at the foreign port of export and is based on the purchase price plus all charges incurred in placing merchandise alongside the vessel at the port of exportation. The cif value measures the value of imports at the...