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

Both regional groupings have, by lowering trade barriers, delivered a real catalyst to economic growth.

Yet developed countries have rendered politically impossible reforms that would reduce trade barriers for developing countries.

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

Moreover, reducing trade barriers between these countries is essential for taking advantage of regional synergies and economies of scale.

This is why Indonesia, one of the world s largest producers of rice and maize, recently decided to reduce trade barriers to agriculture imports.

Such a global structure has the potential to encourage better medium term alignments to reduce trade barriers, set proper standards, and enhance mutually beneficial cooperation.

Measures to reduce trade barriers constitute a mutual responsibility.

NTB surveys with the business communities

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

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.

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

However, significant trade barriers still existed in various forms.

Improving market access involved not only tariff reduction but also relaxation of non tariff barriers and rules of origin.

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.

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

Where social barriers are sufficiently strong, economic barriers are certain to appear. These can range from protectionist trade policies and increasingly strict immigration controls to religious wars and ethnic cleansing.

When everyone raises trade barriers, the volume of trade collapses.

Likewise, removal of trade barriers is recognized as a driver of regional integration and development.

The Great Depression was aggravated by the trade barriers that countries imposed to protect domestic employment.

There could, in truth, be no greater gift to the developing world than lower trade barriers and an end to subsidies.

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

They agree that the two economies could benefit strongly from the elimination of trade and commercial barriers between them.

NAMA It was recognized that all countries have a positive interest in seeking the reduction of tariff peaks and tariff escalation, as well as non tariff barriers.

He stressed the importance of free trade and the elimination of existing trade barriers to allow positive corporate contributions to flourish.

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

Trade barriers among developed nations continue to cause havoc for many developing nations. These barriers continue to keep people in poverty.

In 2010, South Korea and the European Union concluded a free trade agreement (FTA) to reduce trade barriers.

Ordered, free and single market of Bosnia and Herzegovina, without internal trade or political barriers Tax system should be a stimulus for agriculture Village revitalization and self employment in pre war farms Development of long term development programme for plain areas, hill and mountain areas and Mediterranean area Establishment of agriculture and village development fund.

Until demand returns, business will remain in a cost cutting mode.

The issue of trade barriers speaks directly to the question of whether there is a genuine international commitment to Africa s development.

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

As the Human Development Report, 2005, pointed out, the trade barriers faced by developing countries exporting to developed countries were three to four times greater than those faced by developed countries trading with each other.

They would run down their trade surpluses and, in some cases, allow their currencies to appreciate.

Moreover, countries that lower their import barriers also end up exporting more.

16. Recognizes the importance for developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition of considering reducing trade barriers among themselves

And bilateral or regional trade deals can chip away at some of the barriers in the current global system.

In the late nineteenth century, all powers raised their trade barriers except Britain.

That initiative is in line with the consensus recognition of the importance for developing countries of considering reducing trade barriers among themselves.

The political will to remove long standing trade barriers would be the most critical element in this respect.