Most benefits where expected in the food and chemicals sectors.

The agricultural sector remained important, but manufacturing exports should also be strengthened.

(c) To emphasize an integrated sector wide approach, covering forestry, markets for forest products and trade in forest products.

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

In the industrial sector, most peak tariffs are concentrated in the leather, footwear, clothing and textiles sectors (and within textiles mainly cotton, wool and synthetic fibre products).

Recent regulations and private sector standards in the food sector present new challenges for developing country exporters of horticultural products.

14. The distribution of reported posts by economic activity was as follows 37.9 per cent in the goods producing sectors and 62.1 per cent in the service sectors.

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Creating new capabilities and sources of employment at industries producing goods with a high added value.

Even in industrial countries, there is some evidence that reallocation of resources from non tradeable sectors, and within tradeables from importables to exportables (and in the latter from traditional to new products), might be more responsive to targeted incentives such as subsidies than to exchange rate adjustments.

The sectors targeted by new proceedings in 1995 1996 were food items, chemical products, iron and steel, non ferrous metals, machinery and transport equipment, textiles and clothing, and other manufactured goods.

In the agricultural sector, product coverage remains far from comprehensive under many schemes.

The favoured sectors, such as clothing and electronics, included some of the most dynamic parts of the trading system.

The region's greatest potential lies in the agro industry sector with the food, leather, textile and wood sectors having been identified by NEPAD and APCI as the priority subsectors.

The Commission will be briefed on the relevant results of the Expert Meeting on Dynamic and New Sectors of World Trade, held on 24 26 October 2005, on three sectors (i) electronics, (ii) marine products, and (iii) steel and related specialty products.

This downturn in the goods producing sectors was particularly influenced by the decreases in the building, manufacturing and agricultural and fishing sectors, as the rest of the goods producing sectors (mining and electricity, gas and water) would have increased again in the first quarter of 1996.

The introduction of new products which may affect a person apos s health or his faculties is subject to prior authorization by the competent authority Ministry of Public Health for drugs, Ministry of Industry for industrial products, and Ministry of Agriculture for factory produced foodstuffs.

Biotechnology related applications and products have permeated all sectors of the economy.

Genetically modified food that enter the US market are primarily governed by three departments, namely the FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The problem of peak tariffs occurs in six sectors (a) major agricultural staple food products (b) fruit, vegetables, fish, etc. (c) the food industry (d) textiles and clothing (e) footwear, leather and travel goods (f) the automotive sector and a few other transport and high technology goods such as consumer electronics and watches.

Net income from the private sector includes proceeds from the sale of greeting cards and other products, private sector fund raising and contributions from NGOs.

13. The average wage was higher in the goods producing sectors ( Arg 912), with the highest wages in mining and quarrying and electricity, gas and water.

The majority of women microentrepreneurs supported by this product work in the informal sector, where they are often able to produce only tiny incomes.

These preliminary estimates for the first quarter show a drop of approximately 5.9 per cent in the goods producing sectors, while the services sectors increased slightly, by 0.1 per cent.

10. Globalization was providing new market opportunities, and there were many dynamic product markets within the commodity sector.

With respect to the private sector, the report emphatically highlights the role of that sector as a motor for development, for creating jobs and for producing exports.

Article 27 Enterprises engaged in food production or marketing as well as food vendors must obtain a hygiene licence issued by the administrative department of public health before they shall be permitted to apply for registration with the administrative departments of industry and commerce.

Changes in the sectoral composition of world output towards less commodity intensive service sectors, combined with technological advances making for less raw material use per unit of output, appear to foreshadow a continuing long run decline in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactured goods.

The Decision proposed to further reduce the categories in the catalogue of industrial products subject to production license administration, cancel the production license administration for 14 industrial products, and delegate the administration authority for production licenses of 4 types of industrial products to the quality and technical supervision departments of provincial people s governments.

Article 22 With regard to the food indicated to have specific health functions, the products and its description must be submitted to the administrative department of public health under the State Council for examination and approval its hygiene standards and the measures for control of its production and marketing shall be formulated by the administrative department of public health under the State Council.

Protection levels in sectors of interest to developing countries and tariff levels in the developed countries for such sensitive sectors as textiles, clothing, tropical products and agriculture remained high.

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Products used in India's health sector, such as coronary stents and ultra light equipment for handicapped children, were also by products of missile technology.

They started in a certain sector or with certain niche products, attracting customers among larger enterprises, both domestic and abroad, and then branched out from their original sectoral or product base.

4. However, significant non tariff and tariff barriers and high variance, with tariff peaks and tariff escalation, still affect a notable range of products and sectors, particularly ones of export interest to developing countries, including the least developed countries.

(iv) Establishment of an effective and developed seed production sector, including encouragement of private operators at production levels and distribution of selected seeds and plants.

Both product and process related health and environmental requirements play a role in this sector.

Thus, the commodity sector also remained the major source of output and employment in most of the developing world.

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.

In the agricultural sector, most of the products for which tariffication has resulted in tariff peaks are not covered by major GSP schemes.

With regard to modalities for negotiations, so far the Negotiation Group on Market Access for Non Agricultural Products (NGMA) has not decided whether or not to include EGs under a possible sectorial tariff approach.

(vi) Product storage and internal movements

This sector covers emissions from energy end use in the household, commercial and public sectors as well as from the combustion of fossil fuels and by products from industrial processes.

In this regard the focus will be on sectors and products of particular export interest to developing countries.

(a) In order to facilitate the development of the commodity sector, Governments need to ensure that property rights are clearly defined and secure