While there will be a lot of emphasis on Libya, also look for discussions on trade and tariffs, offshore accounts and foreign tax credits for corporations and individuals.
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.
They stand between people who want to trade and demand to be paid off with tariffs and taxes before they will allow the trade to occur.
This means entering trade deals and cutting tariffs so we are not at a competitive disadvantage.
Concessions (that is, permission to retain trade barriers) were sought and granted in successive negotiating rounds of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
He was involved in the setting up of the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, two great mechanisms of development.
To prevent a repeat of 1930s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, governments yielded significant powers over trade policy to supranational bodies such at the World Trade Organization (previously the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the European Union.
And 49% of the public think tariffs and trade restrictions are necessary, down only slightly from 57% in 1978.
It was embodied in organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund and in treaties such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Aware of these pitfalls, some advocates of linking trade and labour are shy of calling for tariffs and import bans.
Some liberals are anti-free trade and want to slap tariffs on all exports.
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Mr Brown has told delegates that action on trade barriers, tariffs and subsidies would benefit not only developing countries, but the entire world economy.
Moreover, economists and trade negotiators realised long ago that barriers to trade are not confined to tariffs and quotas.
The Clinton boom was delayed until his second term when barriers to international and domestic trade were lowered by the reduction of tariffs under the North American Free Trade Act, welfare reform, and a cut in the capital gains tax rate.
Over five years, the Americans propose to eliminate export subsidies for farm products, and to slash both tariffs on farm goods and trade-distorting subsidies for farmers.
But this is much less to do with the reduction in tariffs and trade laws than is generally thought.
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Once shuttered off by tariffs and trade controls, Mexico has opened up to become a place where the world does business.
If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which makes no mention of tobacco, states that free trade should not interfere with a country's right to protect public health.
The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
De Gucht said the deal would center on dismantling any remaining trade tariffs while tackling regulatory and certification barriers.
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Tariffs and other trade sanctions have slashed imports from countries such as Russia.
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.
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The arms business has benefited from globalisation as much as any other, as tariffs have fallen and trade has grown.
This agreement was drafted with a view to reducing tariffs and thereby promoting trade in computers, telecommunications equipment, copiers, radio and video technology and related components.
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