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Environmental liability can also counter the propensity to resort to illicit waste trade in the wake of trade restrictions.

In addition, sharp trade restrictions, including for intraregional trade, are hindering agricultural and manufacturing exports of developing countries on all continents.

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Some developed countries were still pursuing restrictive trade policies.

This significantly limited the expansion of trade in health services.

Enforcement cooperation may also be limited simply because trade is limited between some countries in the grouping or RBPs affecting such trade are rare.

The ATT sets a series of limitations on the arms trade that are based on existing obligations under international law and on expected use.

But one key obstacle to greater success in advocacy in the trade area has been trade restrictions in other countries.

Efficient trade facilitating measures would go a long way towards tackling the high trade transaction costs borne by the landlocked developing countries because of their geographical handicaps.

14. With regard to trade and investment, opportunities for technical cooperation between ESCAP and ECO are being explored in the following areas developing a subregional database, strengthening inter subregional financial linkages, using training facilities, institution and capacity building, managing trade policy issues, replicating successful experience in growth triangles , and preparing an inventory of and monitoring restrictive trade practices.

The existence of trade preferences contributed to restraining the extent of participation by developing countries in multilateral trade negotiating rounds such as the Tokyo Round and the Uruguay Round.

The impact of those routes on opening up Central Asia for trade, in spite of their present physical and non physical constraints, has been substantial.

Side effects of counterterrorism, such as trade disruptions and immigration restrictions, should be limited.

Box 1 Trade Policy Review Mechanism of the World Trade Organization

The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons has contributed to their unlimited proliferation.

In addition to information concerning the frequency of NTBs, they also make it possible to gather data on the relative importance of different measures, such as their trade restrictiveness or trade impact.

Multilateral trading system

A Strategy for Managing Globalization

The free trade area foresees free trade in manufactured goods and a progressive liberalization of trade in agricultural products.

This self restraint seems logical in light of UNCITRAL's mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of the law of international trade .

Unfair trade practices not only limit that potential but also are inconsistent with the Goals.

The use of mandatory requirements related to R D and technology transfer is not prohibited by the WTO Agreement on Trade related Investment Measures, but has become increasingly restricted in various bilateral trade and investment agreements.

The Trade and Development board had requested the UNCTAD secretariat to draw up integrated country programmes in order to deal with the problem of limited supply.

Rebuilding the physical infrastructure is crucial to creating the supportive system, without which trade activities are destined to be limited.

However, many restrictions still exist on international trade in this sector, as shown by the relatively limited GATS commitments in this area.

Local trade finance tends to be expensive (high interest rates) and the trade finance products on offer is limited.

These activities were supported and complemented by TRAINS (Trade Analysis and Information System) and SMART (System for Market Analysis and Restrictions on Trade), the latter being a joint product with the World Bank.

Some of the trade barriers mentioned above are evident from the market access and national treatment limitations contained in GATS commitments.

Among the tools and instruments available to improve transit trade were transit transport regimes, customs systems and cargo tracking schemes.

UNCTAD supports the third round of negotiations in the context of the Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP), launched at UNCTAD XI, in which 14 African countries are participating.

It is planned to produce an information package describing the main topics in international trade law and practices

The FTC felt that this objective could be attained through less restrictive means.

They can only be used to construct indicators of trade restrictiveness that in turn can be used to estimate quantity and or price effects.

Without fixing its savings problem, restricting trade with a few so called currency manipulators would simply redistribute the US trade deficit to its other trading partners. In effect, America s trade balance is like a water balloon applying pressure on one spot would simply cause the water to slosh elsewhere.

The ongoing GSTP negotiations in UNCTAD will lend further impetus to South South trade, and also strengthen the MTS.

Trinidad and Tobago has not adopted any law or measure restricting trade or other economic relations with Cuba.

Most of the growth of intra developing country trade had been in manufactures.

Trade facilitation is enhanced if enterprises can use electronic trading, but such trading may be limited by the current ability of trade related services to interact electronically (e.g. electronic declarations to customs).

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The methodology described in the present document (later on referred to as TEAM, for Trade Efficiency Assessment Methodology) aims at satisfying a limited set of objectives under a precise array of constraints.

Trade in more lucrative chilled poultry meat is very small, but growing, and mainly confined to Japan trade in frozen turkey parts is also rising.

At the macroeconomic level they result in failure to develop a country apos s international trade potential, disadvantageous terms of trade, restricted investment and employment and slower growth.