Sentence examples for preferential agreements from inspiring English sources

Turkey has a customs union with the EU, but tariffs are decided in Brussels and Turkey must also follow the EU's preferential agreements with non-European countries.

Each has its own rules and administrative requirements, leading to a confusing spaghetti (or perhaps noodle soup) of preferential agreements, instead of the predictability that multilateralism promises.

This can be illustrated in a hypothetical situation in which countries (say, France and Germany) are permitted to get together to make whatever preferential agreements they wish.

The ranchers argue that such tactics violate the 1921 Packers and Stockyards Act, which prohibits packers from employing any "unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device" or from making preferential agreements.

Only 5% of ASEAN trade takes advantage of the preferences its officials so painstakingly negotiated.If multilateral liberalisation were proceeding apace, firms everywhere could bypass the thicket of preferential agreements, just as South-East Asian companies have bypassed AFTA.

St. Alphonsus went to court seeking an injunction to stop St . Lukes from buying another physician practice group, arguing that the hospital's dominance in the market was enabling it to drive up prices and to demand exclusive or prefromntial agreements with insurers.

Clotilde Granger and Marc Siroen contend that the inclusion of labor standards is common in preferential trade agreements, but its exclusion from multilateral trade agreements may jeopardize such an initiative.

Whilst formerly preferential trade agreements (PTAs) were generally negotiated through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and later the World Trade Organization (WTO), there has been over the last two decades a proliferation of bilateral and regional PTAs with increasingly 'deep' commitments that go beyond those required by the WTO system.

The three processes of trade liberalization include: structural adjustment programmes and unilateral liberalization, the multilateral system (i.e. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization), and bilateral and regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs).

Finally, there should be a moratorium on north-south preferential trade agreements.

Regional projects can consist of little more than loose preferential trading agreements.