Their exports today face a variety of barriers in their major markets, including non tariff trade barriers and other non tariff measures.

It will also take up non tariff barriers.

NTB surveys with the business communities

Tariffs have fallen, although non tariff barriers and preferential agreements have been on the rise.

For other developing and transition economies and developed countries, the figure was only 15 per cent.

With formal tariffs already so low, negotiators will focus largely on non tariff barriers such as regulatory barriers.

Establishment of a more equitable international economic system, especially access to markets and removal of tariff and non tariff trade barriers and elimination of subsidies on agriculture are prerequisites for the promotion of pro human rights growth.

However, more work is needed to find or create the appropriate tariff headings and to address non tariff barriers.

Meaningful improvements in market access will require the elimination of non tariff barriers to exports of interest to landlocked developing countries.

Noted with satisfaction that some member States had liberalized their import licensing and foreign exchange allocation and that most of the member States had embarked on liberalizing import licensing and foreign exchange allocation, as well as dismantling other non tariff barriers

However, developed countries' trade barriers continued to harm developing countries.

Tariffs lowered on industrial goods and services.

When progress is not being made, non tariff barriers grow like weeds in response to domestic interests.

In the area of NAMA, progress in eliminating trade barriers must be achieved.

For instance, WTO Members may choose to categorize non tariff barriers affecting EPPs as those that are more issue specific, e.g. technical barriers to trade (TBT), customs procedures and rules, or more sector specific.

Inconclusive discussions have also been held on non tariff barriers, which are also being discussed in the negotiations on WTO rules.

UNCTAD XI called for efforts to identify and promote environmental goods and services of actual and potential interest to developing countries .

Tariffs and non tariff barriers are highly relevant to market access, but subsidies and exchange rates also affect market access.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

As a result of successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations, as well as regional trade agreements and autonomous tariff reduction initiatives, tariffs are continuously being lowered.

The major obstacles include trade barriers, insufficient flows of international financing, onerous external debt and the inadequate transfer of technology to developing countries.

Measures to reduce trade barriers constitute a mutual responsibility.

The abolition of trade barriers is the single most important factor for world economic growth.

Business surveys or structured interviews represent another approach that has been used to obtain information on the importance of NTBs.

While quantitative restrictions have been banished, properly identifying, defining, classifying and disciplining a plethora of non tariff barriers and market entry barriers pose a major challenge.

A successful Doha Round will reduce and eliminate tariffs and other barriers on farm and industrial goods.

A successful Doha round will reduce and eliminate tariffs and other barriers on farm and industrial goods.

4. Recognizes that the substantial improvement of market access for exports of goods and services from developing countries through, inter alia, the reduction or removal of tariff and non tariff barriers should be assigned high priority in multilateral trade negotiations

It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

A solution of a different sort is the removal of trade barriers.

Then there is the unresolved problem of trade barriers.

Yet trade barriers were an obstacle to recovery and growth.

However, significant trade barriers still existed in various forms.

(vi) Holding of consultations with a view to lowering tariff barriers and removing restrictions on the trade of certain goods and commodities

Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state owned firms.

Non tariff barriers (e.g. quotas, sanitary and phytosanitary barriers) also make it hard to plan ahead.

The significant rise in non traditional exports to Central America principally Guatemala and Honduras was due to the lowering or elimination of trade barriers.

Industrial countries would increase aid levels and lower trade barriers.

The reduction of the trade barriers that confront Africa is at least as important.

Old trade barriers have yet to be removed, while new ones are emerging.

To this end, the scope of the World Trade Organization should be extended through the negotiation of future global arrangements that reduce subsidies and both tariff and non tariff barriers.

Tariff and non tariff barriers on trade among African countries often remain a major obstacle to increased intraregional or subregional trade.

The improvement of the economic climate of the developing countries hinges on the growth of financial investment flows, on the transfer of technology, on the elimination of tariff and non tariff barriers, on just remuneration for commodities and raw materials.

But using the trilateral FTA to expand its economic and political influence would require China to increase transparency, open its service sector, and remove non tariff barriers.

Some ministers pointed out that it was also necessary to deal with the increased resort to non trade barriers, such as sanitary and phyto sanitary requirements.