commodity agreement

A number of international commodity agreements serve solely as forums for information exchange, analysis, and policy discussion.

With particular emphasis . . . on international commodity agreements.

It would be similar to the commodity agreement for natural rubber, one of the most successful pacts of this kind.

Third world proposals to raise raw material prices through OPEC-like commodity agreements also proved unworkable.

International Commodity Agreements: A Legal Study.

He then served as a consultant to the White House Office of the Special Trade Representative, here he analyzed potential international commodity agreements.

The International Tropical Timber Agreement is foremost a commodity agreement to promote tropical timber in the world's market.

A joint EC-ACP committee would be set up to discuss co-operation on international commodity agreements and specialized working parties.

An international commodity agreement is an undertaking by a group of countries to stabilize trade, supplies, and prices of a commodity for the benefit of participating countries.

Bruce's Commission also placed a high emphasis on agricultural modernization, international development aid, commodity agreements and price stability to help starving developing nations in its findings presented in 1947.

North Korea's economy continued to suffer shortages in raw materials, energy and new technology and was unable to fulfil its commodity agreements with the Soviet Union in 1989.

The International Coffee Agreement (ICA) is an international commodity agreement between coffee producing countries and consuming countries.

INRA is the only international commodity agreement with economic provisions, which guide the INRO buffer stock manager's market intervention to stabilise prices.

International commodity agreements covering products such as coffee, sugar, tin and more recently oil (OPEC) are examples of international cartels with publicly entailed agreements between different national governments.

It oversees international commodity agreements and export controls on agricultural commodities, foreign assistance programs and Food for Peace, marketing orders, inspection and certification of meat, flowers, fruit, vegetables and livestock.

Many people close to the talks sympathize with the developing nations, noting that the tropical timber pact is the only commodity agreement that covers a trade item originating in one part of the world but not another.

The ITO was to be a United Nations specialized agency and would address not only trade barriers but other issues indirectly related to trade, including employment, investment, restrictive business practices, and commodity agreements.

And the timing is right, in my view, for an all-out push to achieve international commodity agreements that mutually reduce the subsidies and surpluses that are burdening taxpayers all over the world. . . . Cooperation in security relationships must improve.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs is also responsible for export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware and international commodity agreements (other than those involving sugar) including all agreements for cooperation in the export of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.