There is also a strong tendency of tariff escalation for processed products.

Production is for supermarkets in Thailand and Singapore, and comprises frozen speciality products such as tempura fish fillets, graded fish portions, battered calamari, and batter fried shrimps.

It can be a homogeneous product, especially at the producer processor level.

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.

In addition, almost all products are exported at the raw material level.

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

Products at zero tariff under the FTAs also include intermediates and raw materials required for the domestic production of end user consumer goods, which will, to a certain extent, also upgrade the mix of domestically produced consumer goods.

The citation of outputs would reflect only the final products or services delivered by a subprogramme to end users clients and would not include the activities leading to the production of the final product service.

Can South South trade in semi processed goods for further processing, and in partially processed goods for processing into final agro industry related products, be translated into enhanced income to primary producers?

The least developed countries needed to produce more exportable goods, including not merely primary commodities but also manufactured goods, and consequently they must foster diversification.

Improved market access for primary commodities, especially in their processed forms, should be provided, particularly by developed countries.

The Decision proposed to further reduce the categories in the catalogue of industrial products subject to production license administration, cancel the production license administration for 14 industrial products, and delegate the administration authority for production licenses of 4 types of industrial products to the quality and technical supervision departments of provincial people s governments.

Between 1985 and 1996, the basket of goods exported increased markedly, and there was a clear switch in exports from commodity based products to products with high added value.

Producers of primary commodities often suffer from the low prices paid to them.

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

(vii) continue efforts to make effective international commodities agreements concluded under the guidance of the United Nations intended to promote and improve production and trade of primary products of vital interest to developing countries.

To diversify production in developing countries, including food production, and to expand processing of primary products in developing countries with a view to promoting their industrialization and increasing their export earnings

Once developed, such a mechanism should not be limited (as, unfortunately, it is in the Senate s bill) to ratings of structured financial products. It should apply to all products that rating agencies evaluate.

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.

To improve the competitiveness of, and to encourage research and development on the problems of, natural products competing with synthetics and substitutes, and to consider the harmonization, where appropriate, of the production of synthetics and substitutes in developed countries with the supply of natural products produced in developing countries

Examples include natural fibres, organic agricultural products, recyclable and biodegradable products or sustainably produced forest products.

10. Products Deliverables

The Central African economy basically relies on exports of agricultural, mining and forestry products.

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

Secondly, the products of these semi and low skilled workers must have access to markets.

Also, both the product mix and trade links of African countries maintained the traditional bias towards primary commodities and northern markets.

To seek to improve market access and reliability of supply for primary products and the processed products thereof, bearing in mind the needs and interests of developing countries

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.

Changes in the sectoral composition of world output towards less commodity intensive service sectors, combined with technological advances making for less raw material use per unit of output, appear to foreshadow a continuing long run decline in the prices of primary commodities relative to those of manufactured goods.

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In 1963, the country exported goods worth less than 600 million at today s prices, mostly primary products such as seafood and silk. Fifty years later, it exports goods worth almost 600 billion, mostly electronics, machinery, transportation equipment, and chemical products.

When women work in the field of fishery, they are usually employed in processing fishery products (processing frozen produce, cannery, preparation of smoked and salted food) and in trade.

Often, developing country firms tend to compete on the basis of price and reliability at the lower or middle levels of product markets.

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And they come to the market knowing what grades their products will achieve in terms of a price premium.

Estimates suggest that the operating costs at enterprise level alone are in the order of 2 10 per cent of the value of exported produce.

Focus on reducing the commodity tax rate that has a large domestic demand and contributes to the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and striving to increase the import of characteristic advantage products with relatively concentrated needs of the people, continuously improving the sense of gain of enterprises and the public, and meeting the upgrading needs of the industrial structure and consumption structure.

Commodities

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The acceptability of the product also depends on its physical qualities.

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However, in some sectors and products notably those of special interest to developing countries high tariff peaks still prevailed, while remaining tariff escalation in commodity based trade introduced a bias against diversification and processing.

This may include certain products that are already included in the list of EGs prepared by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), as well as other products such as certain environmentally preferable products (EPPs).