Lowering of tariffs and other barriers helped Panama into the World Trade Organisation last year.
Industrial state companies will no longer be able to hide behind high tariffs and other barriers.
The agreement is designed to boost trade between the two blocs by removing various tariffs and customs barriers.
Cross-border commerce, long suppressed by political rivalry, is growing, as tariffs fall and barriers to trade are dismantled.
However, there are those, I know, who think that tariffs, trade barriers, import restrictions, are very important policy tools.
Absolutely no one thinks there should be tariffs, trade barriers, down the middle of that town now, do they?
It is an ambitious effort, covering tariffs and nontariff barriers, including obstacles to trade that arise out of different regulations and standards.
The EU says the deal will focus on bringing down remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade, and standardise technical regulations and certifications.
He said the deal would focus on bringing down remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade, and standardise technical regulations, standards and certifications.
We're also going to work to conclude talks with other nations on eliminating tariffs and other barriers to clean energy technologies and services by the end of year.
But switching from non-tariff barriers to tariffs can go only so far to promote agricultural trade.
Ban said countries must also expand microcredit to small farmers, minimize trade barriers and tariffs, and boost investment in agriculture.
The agreement will remove almost all trade barriers and tariffs both in products and services, including in the h highly protected agricultural sector.
Mr Brown has told delegates that action on trade barriers, tariffs and subsidies would benefit not only developing countries, but the entire world economy.
First, with a few temporary exceptions, it converted all non-tariff barriers and unbound tariffs into bound tariffs.
What happened was, is a group, a subset of APEC countries came together and said let's see if we can create a high-standard agreement that is dealing with tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade, but let's also incorporate a whole range of new trade issues that are going to be coming up in the future -- innovation, regulatory convergence, how we're thinking about the Internet and intellectual property.
De Gucht said the deal would center on dismantling any remaining trade tariffs while tackling regulatory and certification barriers.
Otherwise China may end up like Japan, which boasts some of the world's lowest tariffs but highest non-tariff barriers.
For example, the country still has what are, in effect, high tariffs on wheat and imposes nontariff barriers on pharmaceuticals and an array of other products.
Indeed, as conventional trade barriers, such as tariffs and import quotas, have come down over the past half-century, others, such as discriminatory regulations, have sprung up to take their place.
In this past half-century that shipping container has reduced the costs of trade enormously: so whatever had happened to tariffs we would have expected trade barriers to fall and trade itself to rise.
FORBES: Tariffs and Trade: The Tariff Level Isn't the Most Important Thing
America's steel tariffs notwithstanding, rich countries impose low barriers on manufacturing trade with each other.
For trade barriers are the combination of such tariffs and laws with transport costs.
FORBES: Tariffs and Trade: The Tariff Level Isn't the Most Important Thing
Sometimes tariffs are imposed, but more often the barriers are bureaucratic.
If you are truly committed to helping the environment, nations need to get rid of their tariffs, need to get rid of those barriers that prevent new technologies from coming into their countries.
Moreover, economists and trade negotiators realised long ago that barriers to trade are not confined to tariffs and quotas.
And transport costs have been falling so far and so fast that even if tariffs had doubled, tripled, the total trade barriers would still have fallen.
FORBES: Tariffs and Trade: The Tariff Level Isn't the Most Important Thing
The WTO, UNCTAD, World Bank and OECD continue to monitor progress countries have made in reducing tariffs and liberalizing trading systems, including reducing entry barriers in key sectors.
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