Product lines

Persistence of peak tariffs on sensitive products such as textiles, leather, footwear, fish and fish products

Most domestic distributors of branded products, such as cars, clothing and cosmetics, are commission agents of foreign distributors or manufacturers.

Wire drawn products and seamless pipes are also part of the long steel products group.

In view of the excessive power of retailers, the investments of product suppliers could be undermined, particularly if the latter do not have any alternative avenues for the distribution of their products.

It also ensured the inclusion of necessary details for implementation in the CPC. Compared with CPC Version 1.1, about 200 new items have been added to CPC Version 2 in the areas of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food.

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

It's very similar to what you do when you design your product.

Its membership consists of growers, product marketing organizations and growers' cooperatives, food manufacturers and retailers.

Revise the activity (European Classification, Rev.1.1) and product classifications (Classification of Products by Activity) in accordance with changes in the International Standard Industry Classification of All Economic Activities and the Central Product Classification

They offered the opportunity to provide updated information on CPC changes to countries and to seek feedback from countries on their experiences with the CPC or other product classifications.

(c) Innovative instruments to improve the export possibilities for commodities produced in a sustainable way, especially from LDCs.

And it came up with 6,000 different species of products.

Trademark infringement violations encompass the counterfeiting of brand name 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.

6270 Quotas for sensitive product categories

Review of the link between the Central Product Classification and the United Nations Standard Product and Services Code

It included questions on the purpose and scope of the CPC, as well as different options for the CPC aggregation structure.

After this reform, the products that implement the industrial product production licenses administration will be reduced from last year s 38 categories to the current 24 categories.

And the makers of this thing were really enthusiastic.

I got into this business designing products.

33. Among the perennial problems facing producers of commodities is the excessive instability of the prices of many commodities.

It has taken some developing countries' exporters of meat products two years to get approval.

The Commission is requested to review the draft and approve that structure as the recommended international product classification standard.

Status of the revision process of the Central Product Classification

6370 Prohibition for sensitive product categories

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

While the CPC bases its goods part on definitions of the Harmonized System, there is no such link or equivalent level of definition for the UNSPSC.

The developmental potential of the commodity economy depends on the commodity s product characteristics, market structures and development, and marketing strategies.

However, considering the UNSPSC detail as a list of products rather than as a structured classification, it seems more appropriate to compare it to the CPC index, which now covers more than 42,000 items, compared to 18,000 in the UNSPSC.

A simple comparison of the CPC and UNSPSC structures indicates that this type of relationship between the two classifications does not exist.

The worldwide consultation for the Central Product Classification (using questionnaires) was initially combined with the ISIC revision, in which the first two questionnaires covered both ISIC and CPC issues.

This rebate amounts for example to 16 per cent of the rate applicable to sugar and its products, to various canned meat products, certain milk products and butter, etc.

a Commodities indicated altogether accounted for at least 10 per cent of total exports of the countries concerned.

The Commodity Procurement Section has been organized along the lines of commodity clusters whereby the staff resources in each cluster manage each transaction from start to finish.

Further, studies suggest that owing to concentration in the structure of international commodity markets, commodity producers are less likely to benefit from increases in international commodity prices at the wholesale and retail levels.

They are either broad line distributors, dealing with a wide range of products, or product specialized wholesalers.

The main recipient of Guam exports is Japan. Major export commodities are fish and crustaceans, mineral fuels, oils and waxes, tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes and automobiles.

300 to 500 companies control 70 percent or more of the trade of each of the 15 commodities that we've identified as the most significant.

407. Compared to 1992 there was a decrease in consumption of meat products (51.8 per cent), meat and poultry (49.6 per cent), fish and fish products (46.1 per cent), confectionery products (44.4 per cent), fruit and fruit products (39.9 per cent) and butter (33.5 per cent).

Nevertheless, a large proportion of international trade in meat is in quot commodity quot products where price is the overwhelming determinant for purchasing decisions of importers.

Final draft of the Central Product Classification, Version 2

5270 Prior surveillance for sensitive product categories

6170 Prior authorization for sensitive product categories

b Data not available by type of product.