For example, OECD has a history of expressing trade data in terms of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) and the Statistics Division introduces trade data in terms of the Classification by Broad Economic Categories (BEC).

Given the danger that these standard terms could pose in terms of hiding derogations from the obligations in the draft instrument, it was thought that paragraph (b) provided practical and indispensable protection for small shippers faced with such standard terms.

Dollar depreciation improves Europe s terms of trade and real income.

On the other hand, the terms of trade have improved.

Brazil s terms of trade are now 18 higher than in 2002.

Ironically, many developing countries continue to suffer from unfair terms of trade.

When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.

The sustainable development of our peoples requires an open international trade system based on standard rules.

Citrus fruits are the highest value fruit crop in terms of international trade.

Some say that no country loses, in absolute terms, from opening trade otherwise, they would not participate in free trade deals.

That global policy weak in terms of cooperation and perverse in terms of trade   will end by undermining the emerging democracies in developing countries.

Finally, the worsening of China s terms of trade will play an even more fundamental role in reducing its trade surplus in the future.

In terms of international trade, commercial establishment abroad may be the main method of trade however, e commerce is gaining in commercial importance.

In fact, according to Standard Chartered Bank, China ranks first worldwide in terms of both overall M2 and newly issued currency.

China was mentioned only in terms of its supposed cheating on trade and currency matters.

Fifthly, the terms of trade continue to work against commodity and preference dependent developing countries.

Those countries have been further shaken by natural catastrophes, bad terms of trade, bloodletting and conflict.

During the twentieth century, the terms of trade had changed to the detriment of developing countries.

Under the Brady Plan, a country s payments were indexed to its export prices or terms of trade.

There are many reasons and ways to manage trade credit terms for the benefit of a business.

In terms of legal trade the measures also help to improve predictability and effective clearance of goods.

The standard test of success for such schemes is the extent to which trade creation between member countries outweighs trade diversion from other markets and the extent to which the scheme moves the region towards freer (and greater) trade.

When slavery was abolished in the mid nineteenth century, the terms of these rulers partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities.

But in terms of democratic culture, GATT also led to a further separation of trade from everyday politics.

Recent economic growth has been fueled by macroeconomic stability, improved terms of trade, and rising investment and consumption.

International trade had continued to grow at a robust pace financial markets worldwide had generally remained calm and the terms of trade for many developing countries had improved considerably.

The Common Market was defended at the outset in terms of the gains that would follow from increased trade.

The standard bearers of the Cold War were not just the United States and the Soviet Union, but, in ideological terms, the individual and the collectivity.

We cannot explain this convergence in terms of standard economic arguments, such as changes in relative prices and incomes, because no such changes were sufficiently large.

The continual decline of tariff rates as a result of eight multilateral trade negotiations has raised the relative importance of NTBs in terms of both protection and regulatory trade instruments.

In addition, the ISO 9806 standard is ambiguous in describing the way in which the efficiency of solar thermal collectors should be measured, since these could be measured either in terms of gross area or in terms of absorber area.

Internationalists had to come to terms with the simple fact that, on its own, trade did not automatically enable peace.

In general, terms of trade improvements and capital inflows do not continue permanently they either stabilize or eventually reverse direction.

For countries which face a liquidity problem but are considered to have sustainable debt, the Paris Club would apply the existing standard terms to a flow rescheduling.

The databases of both organizations will contain two quantity fields net weight and quantity in terms of the standard units of quantity recommended by the World Customs Organization.

They are better at adjusting to external economic shocks (such as terms of trade declines or sudden stops in capital inflows).

Indeed, terms of trade do not have much of a long term trend and show very pronounced reversion to the mean.

Such a review should be undertaken for economic classifications including the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, the Central Product Classification, the Standard International Trade Classification, the Classification by Broad Economic Categories and the classifications of expenditure according to purpose.

His delegation supported the European Union's pragmatic and sensible proposal for a standard series of three two year terms that was becoming the norm for the United Nations system.

Moreover, the international situation for Argentina is highly favorable, with excellent terms of trade guaranteeing strong performance for producers of raw materials.

The worsening terms of trade have been a major factor contributing to the decline in the current account surplus in recent years.

Furthermore, exchange rate movements are essentially determined by financial flows and may have no effects in terms of correcting global trade imbalances.

Within the services sector, the main activities in terms of gross value added are business activities, distributive trade, education and public administration.

With respect to this provision, various terms contained in the mandate were explored, such as specific trade obligation and multilateral environmental agreement .

Ethiopia called on development partners to provide further support in terms of strengthening the trade negotiating capacity of the least developed countries.