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Date and source |
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| Doha
Briefing notes |
October
2001
Background
Doha
Briefing notes
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"
Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic provide duty
free and quota free access to all imports from LDCs.
Egypt notified tariff reductions ranging from
10% to 20% of existing applied duties for 77 products of export
interest to LDCs, and provides duty free access for about 50
products. In addition, Egypt bound customs duties, with a 10%
reduction for industrial products imported from LDCs." |
| Doha
Briefing notes |
October
2001
Background
Doha
Briefing notes
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"
Japan in December 2000, announced its “99%-initiative on
Industrial Tariffs”. Following implementation, in April 2001, the
coverage of duty and quota-free treatment for LDCs industrial
product exports increased from 94 to 99% and includes textile and
clothing exported from LDCs." |
| British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon
Brown |
27 July 2001
Wall Street Journal
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"
(The
annual income gains of ) a trans-Atlantic market-place
including the elimination of industrial tariffs with all our
trading partners would be nearly $350 billion" |
| Kobsak
Chutikul |
25
July 2001
Bangkok Post
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"
A study by the World Bank estimates that barriers to manufacturing
exports make up around 70% of the total export barriers faced by
developing countries and that three-quarters of the gains from
further manufacturing liberalisation would go to developing
countries. Another study by the University of Michigan found that
cutting barriers to trade in agriculture, services and
manufactured goods would boost the world economy by $613 billion
(28 trillion baht)." |
| Administrator of the UNDP, Mark Malloch Brown. |
10 July 2001
Agence France Press
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"
If IT
isn't taking off, it isn't necessarily that you don't have a
fibre-optic or telecommunications platform. It's much more
likely that you don't have enough tertiary educated people to
staff the sector. It is policy not charity that will
ultimately determine whether new technologies will become a
tool for human development everywhere. " |
| Secretary
of State for International Development of the United Kingdom,
Claire Short |
December
2000
Paper: "Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalization
Work for the Poor" |
" There are substantial inequities in the existing international
trading system[…] Despite progress over the last 50 years,
developed countries maintain significant tariff and non-tariff
barriers against the exports of developing countries
[…which…] are most damaging in areas of key importance[…],
such as agriculture, textile and clothing, while the use and
threat of 'trade defence' instruments (e.g. anti-dumping)
creates further obstacles". |
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