Thailand has gradually liberalized its retail trade since the late 1980s.

Participation by regional economic integration organizations

It can be considered the second stage of economic integration.

Article 17 Participation by regional economic integration organizations

As a result, regional trade and economic integration have been stifled.

Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations

Only after economic integration had progressed did the first serious efforts at political integration take place.

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Article 16 bis. Participation by regional economic integration organizations (resumed)

About 80 per cent of trade between Chile and Paraguay enjoyed zero tariffs under the Economic Complementarities Agreement between Chile and MERCOSUR.

But economic integration has not been matched diplomatically.

While other organizations focus on economic integration, ALBA promotes social, political, and economic integration among countries that subscribe to democratic socialism.

It was his delegation's understanding that it was the regional economic integration organization.

(b) Sustained economic growth, creation of productive employment, income generation and facilitation of social integration

Increasingly, the economic integration of the Asia and Pacific region is becoming an imperative for its growth and development.

A higher level of economic, fiscal, and political integration will also compel the amendment of national constitutions.

The main contributing factor has been the economic integration with Denmark brought about by the Øresund Bridge.

18.13 Despite the various efforts made towards regional integration among member States in the 1950s, the basic requirements for achieving economic integration have not been established.

Regional economic integration initiatives usually focus on trade liberalization, tariff reduction and quota abolition.

But this set up makes little sense in the face of the economic logic of European integration.

Over the last three decades, increased economic and trade integration has bolstered the region s growth.

As a result, progress towards meaningful economic and political integration can be painfully slow during the good times.

The member states continued with economic integration and removed all customs borders between each other after July 2011.

The REIO would be free to use whatever definition of place of business it required for its purposes.

The problem is that the French referendum on the EU constitution in 2005 vetoed further political integration, while further economic integration may now fail because of Germany.

The region is pressing ahead with economic integration as it negotiates United States proposals for a Central American Free Trade Agreement and the hemispheric Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.

Nowadays southern African countries are committed to reinforcing their regional integration through economic harmonization.

Today, however, global economic integration and interdependence are much deeper than in the 1930 s.

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The attitudes of the EU's big and small countries suggests that European integration's basic bargain is no longer regarded as fair.

For Russia, such integration would provide a real spark for economic and social modernization.

In this case, economic integration can be married with democracy through political union among states.

Worse still, economic union itself can fan the fires of nationalism and endanger political integration.

From the beginning of the integration process, Europe s founding fathers had made it abundantly clear that the ultimate goal was a political union, with economic integration being but the first step.

Promote and strengthen regional and sub regional integration through groupings and other arrangements based on mutual benefit, complementarities and solidarity among developing countries with a view to facilitating and accelerating the economic growth and development of their economies.

Moreover, economic integration and increased intra regional trade are the best entry point into global markets for all countries.

But, although Asia is becoming more like Europe in terms of economic integration, political and diplomatic integration lags behind.

But North Africa must also work on regional economic integration in order to boost the effectiveness of national policies.

The eurozone aspires to full economic integration, which entails the elimination of transaction costs that impede cross border commerce and finance.

Also the university founded in 1998 and the effects of integration into the European Union have contributed.

If the Commission so decided, the European Commission would consider replacing European Community with regional economic integration organization .

The response to these failings, however, was a demand for greater economic integration, including such intermediate steps as the creation of a European finance minister or an EU commissioner with sweeping powers to facilitate closer integration.

Under the Economic Complementarities Agreement 22 between Chile and Bolivia, Chile granted preferential access to Bolivia for some 500 customs tariff lines and Bolivia granted preferential access to Chile for about 480 tariff lines.

Closer integration with the EU is therefore widely seen as important to the success of Russia s own economic transformation.

Southern Africa s leading economies must therefore make every effort to promote regional integration.