preferential agreement

A statement from the union said, "The mandate does not cover any preferential agreement with Russia."

These nations are seeking preferential agreements for themselves rather than to establish an open market for all.

However, this is not a preferential agreement, and tariffs will, therefore, not be discussed.

The real problem lies in the signing of preferential agreements with third countries by the European Union.

Thus, these countries must have the opportunity to choose between an EPA and another form of preferential agreement.

Yet the problem does not lie only in conversion rates but also in the signing of preferential agreements.

GATT said that such preferential agreements could have a far-reaching impact on world trade.

Furthermore, American exports to certain third countries enjoy preferential agreements which the European Union does not have.

South Africa is the first case in the Union's history of a preferential agreement where the objective of free trade also applies to agriculture.

On the basis of its assessment, the Council decided that a unilateral preferential agreement on trade should continue to be applied to Croatia.

Beet producers in the countries with which the European Union has preferential agreements will also lose, because it will import sugar at lower prices.

Tariff protection is very low and is being progressively dismantled following the negotiations within the World Trade Organisation and other preferential agreements.

They are in fact designed to ensure that Community producers' interests are safeguarded and to maintain the essential aspects of our preferential agreements with the ACP countries.

However, after 1967 France continued to support Israel's right to exist, as well as Israel's many preferential agreements with France and the European Economic Community.

Even if the expiry date is extended, it is in the interest of every country to sign interim agreements to absorb the negative economic impact following the expiry of the 'preferential agreements'.

Moreover, the EU is a particularly open market in terms of imports of products from developing countries as a result, among other things, of the 'Everything but Arms' and other preferential agreements.

As mentioned, formularies may be used to drive choice to lower cost drugs by structuring a sliding scale of co-payments favouring cheaper products or those for which there is a preferential agreement with the manufacturer.

It is also the case of the countries which have preferential agreements with us, like the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, some of the ACP countries and other small exporters.

Finally, Mr President, I am worried that we are proliferating preferential agreements, even before the opening of WTO negotiations, which will lead us to reconsider the concept of the most favoured nation clause.

APU Educational Development, the umbrella group, has secured preferential agreements from the government for build and operate education projects in Da Lat, Da Nang, and Cu Chi.

The ranchers argue that such tactics violate the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act, which prohibits packers from employing any "unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device" or from making preferential agreements.

The Commission recently published a communication on the WTO aspects of the European Union's preferential agreements with third countries. This rightly states the principle that inconsistencies with the common agricultural policy must be avoided.

Mr President, as I said, the Commission intends to raise this matter in the bilateral discussions on reaching a preferential agreement on the liberalisation of services and public procurement between the EU and Turkey.

Specific agreements such as the association agreement with Chile have been finalised. The latter will result in the most ambitious and innovative free trade area to date, in line with the preferential agreement signed with Mexico two years ago.

Acquisitions thus include all purchases and exchange receipts as well as any and all foreign crude acquired under reciprocal buy-sell agreements or acquired as a result of a buy-back or other preferential agreement with a host government.