UN Comtrade

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

The level of protection in commodity trade has been low, except for agricultural products.

Given that vehicles which move traded goods also require the movement of people, such schemes also facilitate trade in goods.

So 100 companies control 25 percent of the trade of all 15 of the most significant commodities on the planet.

Wheat exports, a major source of hard currency, rank among the leading commodities in Kazakhstan's export trade.

And, even when times were good, India never gained a foothold in the global manufactured goods trade.

The trade of African countries is still dominated by commodities, which are subject to volatile price movements beyond their control.

The free trade area foresees free trade in manufactured goods and a progressive liberalization of trade in agricultural products.

It is also assisting in the development of South South banking sector links as a means to facilitate South South commodity trade.

The starting point for this development was the creation of the Statistic Division application for maintenance and dissemination of detailed commodity trade statistics, namely, the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade).

When slavery was abolished, the terms of partnership with Western colonizers changed from trade in slaves to trade in commodities. After independence in the early 1960 s, during the Cold War, they played the West against the Soviet bloc for the same purpose.

the Weapons and Ammunition Act the Import and Export Act 1962 the Strategic Goods (Import and Export) Decree the Decree on the Issue of Declarations for Strategic Goods, which forms the basis for International Import Certificates and Delivery Verification Certificates the Strategic Goods (Financial Transactions) Decree 1996, which requires a licence for Dutch legal or natural persons financially involved in the trade of strategic goods that are in transit or otherwise outside the EU

Build South South trade in goods and services at the bilateral, regional and interregional levels in sectors with high growth potential.

When the Kru began trading with Europeans, they initially traded in commodities, but later they actively participated in the African slave trade.

Examples include the UN Comtrade Internet version, and online analytical tools developed by the World Bank and the International Trade Centre (ITC).

Liberalization of trade in goods and services of export interest to developing countries can generate additional financing for development of up to 310 billion annually.

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.

The US accepted the lower valuation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it earned from bilateral merchandise trade by financing America s budget deficit.

The treaty was created to extend the multilateral trading system to service sector, in the same way the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) provides such a system for merchandise trade.

As is the case for virtually all other international organizations, the UN Comtrade series for the EU aggregate are sourced directly from Eurostat.

A large number of government officials, including members of President Hamid Karzai s own family, are alleged to be involved in trafficking narcotics, timber, gems, and other illicit goods.

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The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), for example, developed an online interface that allows users to define and save queries for which processing is then carried out in the background on the UN Comtrade server.

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Distributive trade statistics

Retail trade 353

Empirical evidence has shown that the growth in trade of ICT goods and services has grown at a faster pace than growth in total trade and remains high despite an overall global slow down in the trade of such goods.

The informal retailing sector will have a role to play once markets are opened and formal retailing expands. FDI facilitates the switch from informal to formal retailing.

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Import export trade 170

Trade in services and development

For the period 2000 2003, trade in services represented 16 per cent of the total trade of developing countries, expanding at the same pace as their trade in goods.

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Other experts stressed that modern retailers usually integrated backwards and could then help improve manufacturing processes and packaging.

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Using UN Comtrade as a single repository for such data therefore produces certain repercussions in the case of non availability of those data or late reporting.