This evolution reflects changing trading patterns and globalized production processes.

Useful resources and publications, such as the Trade and Development Report and the World Investment Report, provided in depth assessments of global trade and investment patterns.

Globalize trade.

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26. Stresses the importance of enhancing South South trade and cooperation in the context of an emerging new trade geography that complements North South trade and cooperation, and takes note of the decision, adopted in June 2004, to launch the third round of negotiations on the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries

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Box 7 The Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet)

Preferences, South South trade, and regional and global trade agreements

It has become of increasing importance that the name Trade Point is legally protected worldwide, together with the name and logo of the Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet) and the Electronic Trading Opportunities (ETOs).

The global trading system needs to be fair.

UNCTAD apos s new mandate was in response to emerging transport and trade patterns indicating increased regional trade.

Global trade relations are also unfair.

2. GTPNet as an example

In addition, sharp trade restrictions, including for intraregional trade, are hindering agricultural and manufacturing exports of developing countries on all continents.

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Canada supports free trade and is ready to work with China to promote globalization and free trade and make its contribution to the sustainable development of the world.

Common position in global trade talks and negotiations

Implications of trade negotiations

In 1994, the United Nations International Symposium on Trade Efficiency (UNISTE) launched the second phase aimed at connecting Trade Points worldwide to the Global Trade Point Network (see box 7).

ITC is also cooperating with UNCTAD in the development of database formats and standards to be used by the participants in the Global Trade Point Network.

It has also sponsored the Global Trade Point Network, which applies modern information technology in trade promotion.

Trade liberalization should be pursued on a global basis.

Trends in global telecommunications trade, 1990 1995, and

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This is why, on the occasion of the United Nations International Symposium on Trade Efficiency (UNISTE, Columbus, October 1994), it was decided to move on to the second stage of the Trade Point programme by launching the Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet), which rapidly emerged as the largest global network for pre transactional trade information.

The next step in UNCTAD s Trade Point strategy then became to move from this pre transactional role of Trade Points to a fully transactional role, which would turn the Trade Point network into the first global instrument for electronic commerce.

The GTPnet was the most visited trade related site on the Internet.

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, New Geography of International Trade South South Cooperation in an Increasingly Interdependent World (TD 404).

(e) Development of specialized software, such as a database management system for electronic trading opportunities from the Global Trade Point Network, and dissemination through the network of trade points and the GTP Net Web site enrichment of the GTPNet Web site through user friendly design and the development of interactive features to improve communication with clients

But, in times of crisis, the trade spillovers have the opposite effect. As the global economy has become increasingly interconnected, these trade multipliers have increased.

The tectonic plates of world politics were shifting.

In close cooperation with the International Trade Center, this will be done in particular through the Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet).

(c) Promote the use of innovative, low cost and development supportive tools for electronic commerce through the Global Trade Point Network.

Mr. James Clawson, CEO, Global Alliance for Trade Efficiency, United States

(a) How do global trade negotiations affect South South cooperation?

UNCTAD should continue approaching trade and related issues within an integrated framework with the aim of making globalization work for development.

Global trade as a share of GDP may therefore decline, but without adverse consequences for global economic growth. Rising productivity does not require relentlessly increasing trade intensity.

(c) Legal protection of the quot Trade Point quot , quot Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet) quot , and quot Electronic Trading Opportunities (ETO) quot names and logos

Similarly, South South trade was an important aspect of the new trade geography, and a more comprehensive Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP) could help to expand it.

The illicit drug trade accounted for 400 billion or 8 per cent of world trade while the consumption of such drugs affected nearly 5 per cent of the world's population over the age of 15.

It highlights trade opportunities in specific products and locations, Table World trade in selected food products

persistent and emerging Issues in Managing globalization

it became clear that they could be the basis for a global network of advanced players in the area of trade information and electronic commerce.

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