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A 'visible fee' is possible as long as it does not create trade distortions.

But she has said in the past that the United States "cannot tolerate" rebalancing because it would be "unfair and create trade distortions."

Nor does it grapple with the trade distortions caused by China's currency policy, except to call on "surplus countries" to play their part in rebalancing.

To move forward on a trade agenda that can open new markets and address trade distortions, any administration must have credibility with Congress and the American people.

Mutual and equivalent international commitments covering sectors that are vulnerable to competition would be greatly preferable to the adoption of border tax adjustments to offset trade distortions.

The current situation with a mixed design protection regime is creating trade distortions, which is bad for the internal market, bad for business and bad for consumers.

Washington, he added, accepts the notion of farming's multiple functions, but only on the condition that "it does not result in trade distortions" by covertly subsidizing unprofitable farm products.

Other goals include ending trade distortions from foreign investment regulations, improving protection for copyrights, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property and wiping out farm export subsidies.

These are the simplification of our promotion policy, the avoidance of absurd production incentives, the strengthening of a market-oriented entrepreneurial trade and finally, the avoidance of trade distortions.

Mr. Fisher also told bond dealers that they should not count on the Treasury to do a snap auction of additional securities if there are trading distortions in the bond market.

Scheduled to end in December, the talks include negotiations over how to open up trade in services, cut piracy of intellectual property, reduce investment-related trade distortions and end subsidized trade in agriculture.

The Cancún meeting is intended to deal with trade distortions across a range of goods and services, ahead of a new global trade agreement that is set to be signed by the end of next year.

Recently, in November 2001, the development cycle initiated by the Doha Declaration set the objective of reducing these trade distortions further, helping, at the same time, developing countries to take fair advantage of world exchanges.

Mr. Sola said one reason for the third world debt crisis was that developing nations had lost $35 billion a year in farm exports as a result of the industrial world's heavy export subsidies and other trade distortions.

A number of studies have confirmed this, particularly in the bottled drinks sector, and I will not go into the complaints lodged by the Commission against certain Member States who generated trade distortions by making the return system mandatory.

Fundamentally, even though it involves trade distortions which will need to be examined, the Farm Bill is an expression of an important development in the American position, which now recognises that sustainable agriculture cannot be guaranteed by the rules of free trade alone.

Trade Distortions The Soviet Union subsidizes Cuba both by paying two to three times the market price for Cuban sugar and by supplying Cuba with low-cost oil, some of which is sold for cash in Western markets, analysts here said.

Member of the Commission. - Mr President, I am happy that the European Parliament shares our view that the defence of EU production against international trade distortions should be considered as a necessary component of an open and fair trade strategy.

As a result, the world shipbuilding market suffers from over-capacities, depressed prices (although the industry experienced a price increase in the period 2003-2005 due to strong demand for new ships which was in excess of actual cost increases), low profit margins, trade distortions and widespread subsidisation.

The broad mandate of the Round had been to extend GATT trade rules to areas previously exempted as too difficult to liberalize (agriculture, textiles), and to increasingly important new areas previously not included (trade in services, intellectual property, investment policy trade distortions).

N. Graham Allen, managing director for global fixed income at Wells Capital Management in Los Angeles, said he was not interested in the new 30-year bond because the trading distortions had sent the yield down too low and "we couldn't see what was going to maintain that."