Trade walls began to come tumbling down.

Actual or potential trade barriers

TRADE IN GOODS BARRIERS AND CONSTRAINTS

And they threw up walls political walls, trade walls, transportation walls, communication walls, iron curtains which divided peoples and nations.

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It deserves to be emphasized, however, that other impediments to trade exist.

Measures to reduce trade barriers constitute a mutual responsibility.

This is of particular relevance in the case of technical barriers to trade.

Yet trade barriers were an obstacle to recovery and growth.

However, significant trade barriers still existed in various forms.

The reduction of trade barriers, technical barriers and other forms of protectionism would enhance competition and contribute to enterprise development.

The reduction of the trade barriers that confront Africa is at least as important.

In their work on trade facilitation, UNCTAD and FIATA complemented each other with regard to the removal of barriers, fiscal or otherwise.

The unequal participation by the developing countries in the decision making processes within the multilateral trade system had to be made more balanced, as trade barriers, especially to tropical products, were eliminated.

Addressing them, including in the context of GSTP, can therefore help increase South South trade.

In order to do so, it would be necessary to identify the traded quantity prevailing before the introduction of the NTB.

Trade barriers among developed nations continue to cause havoc for many developing nations.

It was noted, however, that there were important barriers to international trade in health services.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

The Singapore Government has been working on establishing free trade agreements (FTA) with respective countries to remove trade and investment barriers.

However, developed countries' trade barriers continued to harm developing countries.

Let us foster initiatives to establish a fair and equitable trading regime among nations, such as the reduction of trade barriers.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

The reduction of African trade barriers, which continue to be significant, will eliminate the incentive bias against exports it will also enable the African nations to benefit from intra developing country trade.

As the Human Development Report, 2005, pointed out, the trade barriers faced by developing countries exporting to developed countries were three to four times greater than those faced by developed countries trading with each other.

However, trade barriers cause more important constraints to trade than in other main importing regions.

It has also been proposed that the TBT Committee should undertake a study of the potential trade effects of certain international standards.

74. The Group reaffirmed its support for General Assembly resolution 51 167, which stressed the urgent need to continue trade liberalization in developed and developing countries through a substantial reduction of tariff and other barriers to trade, in particular non tariff barriers, and the elimination of discriminatory and protectionist practices in international trade relations.

Where social barriers are sufficiently strong, economic barriers are certain to appear. These can range from protectionist trade policies and increasingly strict immigration controls to religious wars and ethnic cleansing.

Missing information can thus introduce a downward bias on estimates of the trade impact of NTBs.

The framework is used to estimate the changes in trade due to the introduction of an NTB.

All countries, including developing countries, need to work together to lower trade barriers and eliminate trade distorting subsidies.

6. Urges States to eliminate barriers to trade, including tariff peaks, high tariffs and non tariff barriers and measures which are not consistent with their obligations under the World Trade Organization agreements, taking into account the importance of the trade of fisheries products, particularly for developing countries

In particular, one approach would certainly call for refining the rules and disciplines in the TBT and SPS Agreements to make them more precise (for example, to clarify the key concept of unnecessary obstacles to international trade in the TBT Agreement).

It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

In the area of NAMA, progress in eliminating trade barriers must be achieved.

Furthermore, the Commission should secure its mandate on such important issues as integrating trade, environment and development trade in services improvement of trade preferences and identification of obstacles and barriers to trade.

A number of other areas of WTO work are relevant to the distribution sector, namely trade facilitation, SPS measures, TBT, non tariff barriers, subsidies and tariffs, all of which give rise to complex questions and the need for further analysis.

However, regional trade agreements needed to be outward looking, lowering trade barriers in order to contribute to the greater participation of developing countries in the world economy.

WTO has given prominence to the potential for further reduction of tariff barriers to foster an expansion in South South trade.

It was to be hoped that the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations would be brought to a successful conclusion, creating new opportunities for trade, reducing the trade barriers between countries, and directing the trading system towards the development goals.

Likewise, removal of trade barriers is recognized as a driver of regional integration and development.

It had opened its doors to foreign investment and abolished many of the barriers to foreign trade.

The political will to remove long standing trade barriers would be the most critical element in this respect.

The NTB data incorporated in TRAINS indicate the existence of categories of NTBs classified according to the UNCTAD Coding System of Trade Control Measures (TCMCS) for particular products or groups of products.