Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

The Norwegian Competition Authority successfully used this procedure to ensure that the market remained competitive.

As a result, competitiveness in international markets would be reduced.

Foster the competitiveness of Swiss equipment suppliers on the world market.

They have proved that they can be competitive in a market economy.

What is particularly lacking in terms of raising domestic competition and increasing the competitiveness of economies in transition is a sufficient number of privately owned medium sized enterprises capable of growing and competing not only in domestic markets but also in foreign markets.

Assist small island developing States in enhancing their competitiveness in international markets.

It was observed that success in domestic markets was often a prerequisite for competitiveness in regional and, eventually, international markets.

Indiscriminate opening to external markets had made national producers uncompetitive.

Primarily, it leads to increased competition within such professions and the weakening of the general competitiveness of women in the overall labour market.

The proper application of competition law levelled the playing field for market players and thus increased the number of enterprises that could compete in global markets.

(d) Evaluation and comparison of transport cost to determine system competitiveness and subsequent impact on traders competitiveness in foreign markets

Reaffirming further the role which competition policy can play in facilitating market entry by small and medium sized firms and the informal sector, in promoting a dynamic enterprise sector and in enhancing competitiveness in national and international markets,

Increased competitiveness can result from the growing reputation of a Singaporean firm in both domestic and foreign markets.

This may ultimately lead to exclusion of existing competitors from competition in the two liquor markets.

Competitive markets, effective property rights and the rule of law benefited the poor.

The race for national competitiveness is every bit as fierce as the competition among companies in the marketplace. Countries compete for investment, talent, growth, and opportunity in a globalized world, and those that are pushed out of the running surrender the greatest prize of all human development, prosperity, and happiness for their people.

In the product market, a firm competes with other firms for market shares.

A century ago, the economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter argued that the central virtue of a market economy was its capacity to innovate. He contended that economists traditional focus on competitive markets was misplaced what mattered was competition for the market, not competition in the market.

However, in order for it to take advantage of export markets, its industry needed to become more competitive.

Limit access to a market or free competition among enterprises

Cuba also relies on service differentiation to make its health services competitive in the world market.

He stressed the importance of creating competitive markets in strengthening the competitiveness of enterprises in host economies, and in ensuring maximum efficiency and consumer welfare.

In that regard, the interrelated issues of supply capacity, competitiveness, and market access and entry deserved particular attention.

Another area in which the Competition Board and the monitoring departments operate is the abuse of market power, a practice which is prohibited by and punishable under the ordinance as an obstacle to free competition.

Higher freight rates of course also affected the competitiveness of those steel producers that mainly depend on export markets.

This in turn should help SMEs in those countries to become more competitive in the global market.

Alongside the incentives for the use of banks, a more dynamic market for money transfer operators would allow for greater competitiveness and declining costs in the market of remittances' transfers.

Under this agenda item, the Commission will examine the market access, market entry and competitiveness of selected dynamic and new sectors of world trade.

At the same time, SMEs face increased competition in both domestic and international markets.

To begin with, as international firms begin to operate in the world economy as if it were a single market and production space, the issue of competitive markets is now being posed in terms of the quot contestability quot of markets, i.e. not only actual trade competition in goods and services, but also potential competition resulting from the establishment of foreign firms through direct investment.

Costs of implementation of national competition policy could be minimized by recognizing that, in small markets, concentration might not be as important as ensuring the contestability of markets.

In addition, growing competition in the distribution market can be expected to produce a decline in prices.

Rules governing competition in domestic or international markets address this problem.

Market structure and competition (legislative recommendation 1 and paras. 1 13)

Economic adjustments and the development of market relations in the country have resulted in unemployment and tough competition on the labour market, which is gender biased.

The increasingly fierce competition seems to make investment in foreign markets more and more of a necessity in order for companies to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness.

Because in Africa today, we are competing globally for capital.

Free societies are most valuable as marketplaces where free ideas compete.

The Australia Thailand agreement, for instance, contains a definition of the anti competitive practices to be proscribed these include business conduct or transactions that adversely affect competition, such as anti competitive horizontal arrangements between competitors misuse of market power, including predatory pricing anti competitive vertical arrangements and anti competitive mergers and acquisitions.

The issue is to what extent the market should be competitive in the traditional sense of the word, i.e. marked by the absence of regulatory barriers to entry and the existence of small production units, etc.

By opening up markets to competition, they also encourage the operation of market based incentives.

The Parties agree that it is in their common interest to secure the efficient operation of their markets by enforcing their respective competition laws in order to protect their markets from anticompetitive practices.

Likewise, it seeks to increase the competitiveness of enterprises and promote better integration into the market and the development process.

International competitiveness could not be assessed, however, only on the basis of domestic success in protected markets.