Steel and related specialty products

(iii) Steel and related specialty products

(f) Illegal logging and associated trade in forest products

15. The point was made that it was unnecessary to include the manufacture of nuclear or nuclear related products, while views to the contrary were also expressed.

Energy efficiency standards, labelling and other product related measures

Energy efficiency standards, labelling and other product related measures

With regard to product innovation, major activities were aimed at boosting product competitiveness and transforming the product portfolio to embrace future oriented items.

Of particular concern in the first draft of the CPC, Version 2, was the proposed structure for agricultural and related products, which was deemed to be too detailed in its original form.

Negotiations on EGs are bound to be different from other possible sectorial discussions in the NGMA, which require the reduction of tariffs in the same and proximate HS chapters.

Alternatively, in the case of pharmaceuticals and pesticides, which are frequently subject to compulsory registration procedures, the product may not have been submitted for registration.

Such co related financial products could act as mechanisms of vital importance in the promotion of the productive use of remittances in developing countries.

The end result was a list of products described in a consistent manner and with corresponding images.

Meanwhile, free trade negotiations seem to ignore historical trends. Developing countries international terms of trade have worsened prices of primary commodities have declined in relation to manufactures, as have tropical agriculture prices against temperate agriculture, and prices of generic manufactures have fallen relative to output protected by intellectual property rights.

The fruit juice and related food industries are expected to benefit from the increasing interest in tropical fruit, including fresh produce, in most markets.

Leverage the combination of product innovation and the UNICEF brand.

a Excluding duty free supplies.

However, certain categories of EPPs, such as inherently environment friendly products (i.e. those not based on PPM related criteria), could be included within the scope of negotiations, provided this does not lead to new non tariff barriers and additional costs, e.g. for certification.

In the product market, competition among firms producing the same product, or close substitutes, can differentially affect a firm s performance, depending on the structure of the market and the nature of the competition policy pursued.

UNCTAD defines EPPs as products that cause significantly less environmental harm at some stage of their life cycle than alternative products that serve the same purpose.

In particular, goods produced domestically and imported goods need to be seen as perfect substitutes.

Products whose cost price is aligned with the ruling price of the competitors, provided that they do not resell below the threshold corresponding to loss leader selling.

Based on previous proposals and agreements, the main structure of the Central Product Classification remains unchanged, but improvements and adjustments have been made to the following areas agricultural raw and processed products, information products, information and communication technology related products, transportation services, accommodation services, professional services, waste management services, health services, telecommunication services and originals.

(2) An enterprise engaged in food production or marketing shall have workshops or other premises for the preparation of raw materials and for processing, packing and storage that are commensurate with the varieties and quantities of the products handled

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.

product related environmental awareness

The objectives of the 2007 revision of the Central Product Classification were formulated in terms of relevance, comparability and continuity.

Both product and process related health and environmental requirements play a role in this sector.

Warn me when I visit a site that may contact me about other products or services

Other key market access areas are so called product exclusions (the fact that the distribution of certain products is sometimes excluded from commitments), for example as regards alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical or certain agricultural (raw) products.

Firms producing tinned fruit products for exports, for example, moved into processing quite unrelated foods, such as fish, using established canning capacity technologies and marketing channels.

The study further maintains, that in view of the relatively large share of inputs in the value of the final product produced using natural resource based products and textiles and clothing, the tariff escalation for these categories implies a substantially high effective rate of protection.

This is where you pay for the benefit of the product what it does for you without needing to own the product outright.

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

If several EU members are involved in the export the corresponding authorities should consult.

(h) Countries whose economies are highly dependent on income generated from the production, processing and export, and or on consumption of fossil fuels and associated energy intensive products

quot (a) The principal outputs and or products emanating from each body

Many other agricultural products and processed agricultural products obtain only a partial reduction of the MFN duties.

A relatively high degree of tariff escalation in most product groups, again particularly those of export interest to developing countries

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.

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.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

Promoting participation of developing countries in dynamic and new sectors of world trade (iii) Steel and related specialty products

Although textile and clothing quotas would be phased out under the Uruguay Round agreements, they would be replaced by a tariff still three times the average levied on industrial countries imports.

Half the people who developed the food pyramid have ties to agribusiness.

Existing evidence indicates that it has been relatively easier to phase out ODS in some products than in others.