He also pushed for non-tariff barriers be lifted and that a tough enforcement mechanism be implemented.
But switching from non-tariff barriers to tariffs can go only so far to promote agricultural trade.
Executives complain, though, that red tape and other non-tariff barriers are a far bigger hurdle.
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Some businesses in the service sector will also be freed from irksome non-tariff barriers.
Since 1999 a number of EU exports to North America have been subjected to various tariff barriers.
Brazil's high tariff barriers have created factories that are less efficient than those exposed to international competition.
First, with a few temporary exceptions, it converted all non-tariff barriers and unbound tariffs into bound tariffs.
As tariff barriers come down, says Erik Sardain of Kleinwort Benson, over-capacity will remain a problem for many firms.
But many of the most competitive products face special duties or non-tariff barriers.
It has not tried to blame foreigners for its troubles, nor has it hid behind tariff barriers or currency controls.
If the government then begins to lower its tariff barriers, not all of today's discomfort will have been in vain.
Nevertheless, for the past three years, it has made almost no progress in removing myriad non-tariff barriers to intra-group trade.
Under the broad outline for the farm-trade talks agreed last summer, countries pledged to divide their tariff barriers into different tiers.
Meanwhile, Brazilian manufacturers trying to export to China face steep non-tariff barriers on manufactured goods, such as obstructive state purchasing agents.
The average tariff barriers are already low, between 3% and 5%, but there is no reason they should not go to zero.
In return the two countries will drop many of their tariff barriers.
We all know that increasing tariff barriers leads to less international trade.
Detroit ultimately, albeit reluctantly, acquiesced to a U.S.-South Korea trade pact touching on similar issues of non-tariff barriers to trade that Japan raises.
Mr Sarkozy singled out Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, for alarming Irish (and French) farmers with talk of cuts to EU tariff barriers.
Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii, says they are contemplating South Korean- or Japanese-style protectionism: red tape and other non-tariff barriers.
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Inept management, over-mighty unions and crippling pension costs were left unchecked for too long, as richer countries' steel industries were protected behind tariff barriers.
In Argentina, the government is bankrupt, tariff barriers on consumer goods have been hiked to 35% and a bank run has triggered capital controls.
It has begun, for the first time, to calculate the real cost to poor countries of tariffs, anti-dumping duties and non-tariff barriers in rich markets.
In addition, World Bank research showed that some 62% of Chinese exports to America and 48% of exports to the European Union faced non-tariff barriers in 1993.
The country did have high tariff barriers in the 19th century, but it also cheerfully imported foreign capital and labour to finance and build the westward expansion.
And people are concerned about whether the standards, the non-tariff barriers with respect to autos is something that is preventing us from being able to compete with very good products.
William Thomas, a senior American congressman, told delegates that rich-world subsidies and other non-tariff barriers, such as sanitation inspections, still block imports of African foodstuffs: crateloads rot in American ports.
They include getting rid of non-tariff barriers (eg, by harmonising food-safety rules) and allowing free trade in services and government purchases, as well as eliminating the many exceptions to the common tariff.
So if we have established agreements in which both sides are supposed to open up their markets, we do so and then the other side is imposing a whole set of non-tariff barriers in place, that's a problem.
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So part of what we've been trying to do is to make sure that we're getting the enforcement side of this tight, make sure that if we've got a trade agreement with China or other countries, that they are abiding with it -- they're not stealing our intellectual property or making sure that their non-tariff barriers are lowered even as ours are opened up.
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