Commodities

Expert Meeting on Dynamic

Expert Meeting on Methodologies, Classifications, Quantification

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services,

Commission on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

and Services, and Commodities

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

International trade in goods and services and commodities

Commodity conferences 3 As required up to

SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 6 8 November

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES

C.1 Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities.

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.

(a) Major agricultural food and commodities

Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

C 1 Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities

Expert Meeting of the Commission on Trade in Goods 4 6 May and Services, and Commodities

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 17 21 November AND COMMODITIES, second session

MESSAGE FROM UNCTAD S COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES,

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 21 25 September AND COMMODITIES, third session

A. Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (Commission 1)

Item 3 Commodities and development

Declining importance of primary commodities

Pilot Seminar on the Mobilization of the 3 (end June)

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 3 7 November AND COMMODITIES, second session

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 19 21 February

The new list contains about 600 primary and transformed commodities mainly derived from about 2,020 commodities in the Harmonized System.

1. Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (Commission 1) . 4

1. Commission on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (Commission 1)

DIVERSIFICATION IN COMMODITY DEPENDENT COUNTRIES

The declining importance of primary commodities in world trade appears to foreshadow a continuation of the long term erosion in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactured goods.

3. Diversification in commodity dependent countries

A. Diversification in commodity dependent countries

The prices of primary commodities had declined against the prices of manufactures, especially during the 1980s.

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 17 21 November AND COMMODITIES, second session

The meeting was opened on 29 October 1997 by Mr. J.C. Saigal, Senior Programme Manager of the Division of International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (DITC).

United Nations commodity and other conferences.

Commodity conferences 3 As required up to 2 weeks

DIVERSIFICATION IN COMMODITY DEPENDENT COUNTRIES

(a) Examination of the effectiveness and usefulness for commodity dependent countries of new tools in commodity markets risk management and collateralized finance

COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, 19 21 February AND COMMODITIES, first session (resumed) (2½ days)

Not only has Africa remained commodity dependent, but it has fallen behind other developing regions of the world in exports of non fuel primary commodities.