(d) Commodities

(d) Commodities (A 59 304)

The prices of tropical agricultural products had also fallen against those of temperate agricultural products, and the prices of generic manufactures from developing countries had declined against the prices of manufactures associated with strong intellectual property rights, which basically preserved technological monopolies.

Examples include natural fibres, organic agricultural products, recyclable and biodegradable products or sustainably produced forest products.

(d) Commodities (A C.2 59 L.26)

Where trade regimes have not differentiated between essential and non essential imports, the tendency has been for imports of consumer goods to rise faster than those of intermediate and capital goods.

Entire agricultural areas and production sectors have been devastated, resulting in loss of jobs and production capacity in the flood and commodities sectors.

Commodities were the basis of the agrarian economy that lasted for millennia.

(ii) Develop measures, where appropriate, to replace fossil fuel based and energy demanding products by wood based products and increase the use of long lived wood products

The interventions build on commodities and the related secondary agro processing industries with emphasis on food (e.g. fish, meat, dairy, vegetable oils) and non food (wood and non wood forest products, textiles and garments, leather and skins) products.

Leverage the combination of product innovation and the UNICEF brand.

We also, like a lot of companies, create a product that's based on technology trends.

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Banning the movement of commercial products into the camp has resulted in reduced availability of certain basic commodities.

Or the deposits can be investments in D.E. Shaw s funds and the loans can be the complex derivatives that make up D.E. Shaw s portfolio.

With regard to product innovation, major activities were aimed at boosting product competitiveness and transforming the product portfolio to embrace future oriented items.

The defendant had sold its product to the plaintiff s client, an Austrian company, which in turn sold it to a Danish company.

The dynamic growth of the gifts business over the past few years indicates high level of consumer interest in UNICEF offering these types of products within its portfolio.

But every behavioral divergence between two sided and traditional markets can be understood using simple tools of elementary microeconomics, such as the distinction between substitute and complementary products. When producers of substitutes collude, they usually raise prices producers of complements, by contrast, collaborate to lower them.

And just the sales of the products this is a non profit the sales of these products is now .6 of the GDP of Kenya.

Consumption of finished steel is smaller than production of crude steel due to losses in production of finished products (the discarded material is recycled).

Free trade in textiles and agricultural products, for example, had been blocked for the benefit of Northern producers.

The 6500QL has adopted a brand new design concept while maintaining the excellent quality that is customary of 3M products.

On the other hand, the peak tariffs on numerous fishery and food industry products do not, by and large, exceed 30 per cent.

These are usually produced by manufacturers in the developed countries from imported raw material.

Some designers don't design objects, products, things that we're going to actually use, but rather, they design scenarios that are object based.

These scarce credits are, in their majority, applied in the areas of fast returns in commerce of consumable goods or in agricultural commercialization.

You can use software like Google SketchUp to create products from scratch very easily.

Developing countries needed to explore market opportunities and market niches of various natures, including for example ecological products.

However, in some sectors and products notably those of special interest to developing countries high tariff peaks still prevailed, while remaining tariff escalation in commodity based trade introduced a bias against diversification and processing.

Agricultural subsidies by industrial countries had a negative effect on development in Benin.

I want to know what the business model is on a sort of per unit basis, or for the actual product that you're selling.

A relatively high degree of tariff escalation in most product groups, again particularly those of export interest to developing countries

In a bid to revigorate the agricultural sector and agriculture based industries, the Government banned imports of certain products allowed imports of others only during certain periods allowed imports of products needed by local industries and raised tariffs on imports of products.

To improve the competitiveness of, and to encourage research and development on the problems of, natural products competing with synthetics and substitutes, and to consider the harmonization, where appropriate, of the production of synthetics and substitutes in developed countries with the supply of natural products produced in developing countries

What remained was the need for cooperation among all the stakeholders in the international commodity markets, which varied enormously in terms of their economic, social and political problems, as well as in other ways, and must therefore be treated with the necessary degree of differentiation.

UNCTAD had been given an ambitious mandate on commodities and would continue its efforts to identify, design and implement new policy approaches to commodity related development problems.

Developing countries are slowly but steadily adopting transgenic products.

286. The evolution of the consumer prices of basic products is subject to specific monitoring.

Participants in the eleventh session of UNCTAD had also underlined the importance of paying continued attention to commodities, including instability in world prices, and the difficulties faced by developing countries which depended on such products.

Between 1985 and 1996, the basket of goods exported increased markedly, and there was a clear switch in exports from commodity based products to products with high added value.

10. Products Deliverables

The Central African economy basically relies on exports of agricultural, mining and forestry products.

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The Conference expressed its support for the initiatives taken to ensure promotion of the basic products of the Member States with a view to increasing the added value of these products as well as the revenues of producers.