duty-free trade

I can understand the principle that an internal market should not have duty-free trade.

Difficult talks are expected on energy; Estonia wants to limit liberalization, and duty-free trade.

Employment is more important than abolishing duty-free trade.

International Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela will sign a pact to create a duty-free trade zone of 150 million people.

For this reason, I am deeply concerned by the European Union's intention to provide Pakistan with a duty-free trade regime.

Article 12 affirmed the right of duty-free trade for Russian traders in Mongolia and Xinjiang.

Canadian trade officials said today that under proposed new North American rules governing duty-free trade, Honda would not have to pay the duties.

Nominally, AMU mandates duty-free trade among its members.

The Shell refinery dominates the inner harbour; Punda's irresistible 18th-century quayside fronts its duty-free trade.

In Lebanon's atmosphere of banking secrecy, duty-free trade and political freedom, Al Fatah expanded its political and military institutions as never before.

The first question is: How many people will be without work if the EU decision to abolish duty-free trade between Member States is implemented in 1999?

The town continued to flourish under Tsar Ivan Asen II because of the duty-free trade with Venetian-ruled Dubrovnik.

The Latin American heads of state, at the end of their two days of meetings, expressed optimism about the creation of a duty-free trade zone in South America.

In 1965, when the United States and Canada signed a bilateral agreement for duty-free trade in automobiles and parts, trade in this sector totaled $625 million a year.

Such garments qualify for lower duties and eventually duty-free trade with the United States under the staged reduction of tariffs that is part of the United States-Canada pact.

Of all duty-free products sold, 41 % are of French origin and duty-free trade is the best possible shop window and the best possible way of promoting products made for export.

The absurdity of Commission dogma in pursuing its economic goals at any price has been recent demonstrated by its could not-careless attitude to the thousands of jobs which are under threat in the duty-free trade.

The Commission therefore remains convinced that the transitional period of more than seven years granted to the duty-free sector was sufficient to meet the duty-free trade's legitimate concern about the phasing out of such sales.

In February, President Bush restored Paraguay to the Generalized System of Preferences, a duty-free trade status that Paraguay lost in 1987 because of violations of rights of unionists.

I would therefore like to give him the chance to do so by asking him two specific questions that he should be able to answer more or less in detail if he agrees to the abolition of duty-free trade.

The second question is: If the ferry companies' income is to be reduced by approximately 30 per cent, which probably will be the case if duty-free trade is abolished, how will this affect transport charges?

Thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed with Canada and Mexico in 1994, the United States enjoys virtual duty-free trade with Mexico.

Following the completion of Phase I, the Government of Pakistan on 1 February 2007 signed a 40-year agreement with PSA International for the development and operation of the tax-free port and duty-free trade zone.

The report was made available just days after President Bush announced plans to seek expedited negotiating authority in the hope of establishing the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a duty-free trade zone from Canada to Chile.

In 1965, as the deputy assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, Mr. Trezise was the chief negotiator of an auto parts agreement that allowed duty-free trade of vehicles and parts between the United States and Canada.