Erosion of preferences

Retirement related privileges associated with work are as follows

32. As regard conditionalities attached to trade preferences, views differed.

(b) Provision of material, equipment and technologies, on concessional terms, to Annex III countries

It was stressed that conditionalities have always been attached to the autonomous granting of trade preferences.

Conversely, it was stated that the imposition of conditionalities implies that in reality there is reciprocity in the supposedly non reciprocal trade preferences.

Fifthly, the terms of trade continue to work against commodity and preference dependent developing countries.

The developing countries should have access to those technologies on preferential terms in order to promote global sustainability.

To that end, it was necessary to promote the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on concessional terms.

So were the international community apos s financial support and the transfer of technology on preferential terms.

Efforts may also be made to reverse the trend of linking non reciprocal trade preferences to conditions and circumstances which are unrelated to trade.

(b) Favourable loan conditions for the host country provide for favourable conditions for the transfer of energy technologies.

We need an early infusion of financial resources on favourable terms to launch the post war reconstruction programmes.

Market access privileges have been effective only in some cases for promoting market entry.

147. Another essential dimension of the commitments of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development concerns concrete measures for the transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.

The law on pension support for citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan provides for awarding retirement pensions under preferential conditions and in preferential amounts. These privileges are given both to men and women.

Responses to those issues necessitated corrective price mechanisms and preferential terms in the area of investment.

At the same time, attention needs to be given to improving and enhancing existing preferential schemes for concerned countries, as well as improving market access conditions on a most favoured nation basis.

Some developed countries are attaching social and environmental clauses to the granting of GSP preferences.

(a) Developments in the airline and shipping industries will continue to enable the negotiation of favourable contracts

New and additional financial resources and appropriate technology must be transferred to the developing countries on preferential terms.

In their schedules of concessions many of the members grant more favourable access conditions to LDCs on a non reciprocal basis.

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Finally, according to Kumar, the terms of technology transfer by developing country firms are generally more favourable to host countries than those of transfer by industrialized countries' firms.

One way preferences

However, such technology must be transferred on favourable terms and by mutual agreement, taking into account the development needs and priorities of developing countries.

A. Marketing locational advantages

Industrialization was encouraged by the Industrial Incentive Act of 1954, which granted concessions to United States companies that located plants on the island.

The international community, therefore, must not only continue with its current assistance but increase it and provide it on concessional terms preferably as grants.

Options for North South environmental technology transfer on a preferential basis by agreement could include waste water treatment, water conservation and desalinization.

7. Urges Member States to open their markets to exports from the West Bank and Gaza and on the most favourable terms, consistent with appropriate trading rules

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He called for improvements in the Generalized System of Preferences to facilitate market access through remaining preferences.

One way preferences include General System of Preferences (GSP) schemes, the Everything but arms (EBA) initiative of EU and those agreed to under successive Lomé accords and Cotonou agreements.

Developing countries that have been enjoying non reciprocal preferential market access have called for adequately addressing the erosion of preferences arising from the most favoured nation tariff reduction.

7 Type A settlements are characterized by more favourable conditions with respect to tax and loan obligations and the provision of educational, health and industrial facilities.

The international financial institutions, for their part, must create more opportunities for developing countries to benefit from increased concessional funding for development.

Development and transfer of technology, particularly environmentally sound technology, including on non commercial and preferential terms, for exploiting critical energy resources

As creditors, they should stand ready to grant generous terms for the restructuring of their claims and support economic recovery in Asia through new loans.

Despite various preferential trade arrangements with its main trading partners, Africa's external trade continues to be hindered by a host of non tariff barriers and excessive market entry requirements that nullify the market access granted under preferential tariff regimes.

In particular, the erosion of trade preferences that stems from the cuts in most favoured nation tariffs as a result of the Uruguay Round negotiations will affect negatively the diversification programmes of these countries.

Some experts noted that Article 10A of the Montreal Protocol commits developed country parties to transfer technologies to beneficiary developing countries on fair and most favourable terms.

The preferential measures among developing countries would complement preferential schemes offered by developed countries.

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