Non agricultural market access

Non agricultural market access

Entering world market for fishery products

Market access

Item 4 Market access, market entry and competitiveness

Due consideration should be given to agro food, fibre processing and product innovation in order to enhance market access capabilities.

To seek to improve market access and reliability of supply for primary products and the processed products thereof, bearing in mind the needs and interests of developing countries

Integration with markets (agro processing and market chains)

General Direction of Heavy Industry and High Technology, Ministry of Economics, Mexico City

We need to provide better market access, including access to financial services.

These services comprise post harvest systems in the food sector, fibre processing, product innovation and diversification for enhanced market access, and enhancing rural community livelihood through efficient agro supply chains.

The Group attached great importance to technical cooperation, and regarded trade capacity building as an important tool to assist African industrial products in gaining access to international markets.

We reaffirm that it is indispensable that access to world markets be coupled with measures to strengthen the supply of products from developing countries through adequate support for the local processing of commodities.

The reward for taking on the challenges of globalization is to gain access to external markets.

G S and private labels have a significant effect on market behaviour and increase the market power of large retailing conglomerates.

Another tool was the Market Access Map, a database on market access barriers, developed to enhance transparency and to support international marketing and trade promotion.

These enable an organization to access a wide variety of markets.

Market access, road services and natural resource management must also be developed.

In our efforts to protect the environment, we have to enhance the use of renewable energy and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.

Other key market access areas are so called product exclusions (the fact that the distribution of certain products is sometimes excluded from commitments), for example as regards alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceutical or certain agricultural (raw) products.

Free access to international markets in order to export products under fair conditions was important, as was access to sources of international financing to consolidate sustainable development.

Market access barriers affect cross border supply of audiovisual products through specific quotas for local content on radio and television broadcasting.

Today, Spain and Italy are at risk of losing market access.

Some participants emphasized that a pro development outcome in NAMA requires that developing countries themselves accept an appropriate level of market access commitments.

Market reform was especially necessary, to provide improved market access for developing countries.

Ms. Huma Fakhar, Fakhar Law International Market Access Promotion NTW Asia,

It will also seek to improve fresh produce value chains, and the development of supply chains for novel or non traditional agro produce products for high value markets.

The major impediments to this transition are a combination of internal and external factors such as small internal markets, and poor access to technology and external markets.

Moreover, products entering global markets have to be tested against international standards and conformity assessment requirements.

The country looked forward to further enhancement of market access by the country's major trading partners.

A large number of ministers stressed the importance of market access for developing countries.

The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) aimed to substantially reduce barriers to market access for agricultural goods, manufactured products and services.

He hoped that the resulting improved access to international markets would help to improve product diversification and foster employment.

African farmers need improved technologies and better access to agricultural markets in Europe and the United States.

The EU Commission's Market Access Database can be accessed via the Internet at http mkaccdb.eu.int.

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

Product development based on available agro resources is the key to becoming a potential player in the global market and to facing the increasing competition of imported goods on the domestic market.

The former related to leveraging existing products in new markets and creation of new market segments.

New products stall, old products are not as profitable as they once were (because competitors figure out how to make something better), and markets and consumers move on.

The main focus of the work of the negotiating group on non agricultural market access has been on the appropriate formula for tariff cuts.

The modalities of non agricultural market access need to address specific concerns of developing countries relating to preference erosion.

Fairer trade conditions especially free access to markets are vital for lasting development.

There was a general consensus that dynamic products in the textiles and clothing sector would vary from country to country and from market to market, and that the parameters for defining dynamic products would be demand, market access and profit margins.

Under this agenda item, the Commission will examine the market access, market entry and competitiveness of selected dynamic and new sectors of world trade.

They do not need paternalism they need training of human capital and access to markets and technologies.