AMENDMENT TO THE FIRST AGREEMENT ON TRADE NEGOTIATIONS AMONG DEVELOPING MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (BANGKOK AGREEMENT)
ASIA-PACIFIC TRADE AGREEMENT
PREAMBLE
RECOGNIZING the urgent need to take action to implement a trade expansion programme among the developing member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) pursuant to the decisions contained in the Kabul Declaration of the Council of Ministers on Asian Economic Co-operation and within the framework of the Asian Trade Expansion Programme which was adopted by the Intergovernmental Committee on a Trade Expansion Programme created under the Kabul Declaration;
GUIDED设计院实习报告 by the principles contained in the New Delhi Declaration adopted at the thirty-first ssion of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;
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REALIZING that the expansion of trade could act as a powerful stimulus to the development of their national economies, by expanding investment and production opportunities through benefits to be gained from specialization and economies of scale, thus providing greater opportunities of employment and curing higher living standards for their populations;
健步如飞是什么意思MINDFUL of the importance of expanding access on favourable terms for their goods to each other’s markets and of developing trade arrangements which promote the rational and outward-oriented expansion of production and trade;
NOTING that the international community has fully recognized the importance of encouraging the establishment of preferences among developing countries at the international, regional and subregional levels, particularly through the resolutions of the General Asmbly of the United Nations establishing the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade and the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order and the Programme of Action for th
e Establishment of a New International Economic Order; the Concerted Declaration on Trade Expansion, Economic Co-operation and Regional Integration among Developing Countries adopted at UNCTAD II; as well as Part IV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Article V of the General Agreement on Trade in Services and decisions made in pursuance thereof;
NOTING FURTHER倍的认识说课稿 that developing countries have already taken some major decisions intended to promote such type of preferential arrangements among themlves such as the Global System of Trade Preferences;明天拼音
CONVINCED that the establishment of preferences among the developing member countries of ESCAP, complementary to other efforts undertaken in other international forums, could make an important contribution to the development of trade among developing countries;
The Governments of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of India, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Republic of Kore
a and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka HAVE AGREED as follows:
Chapter I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1
Definitions
For the purpos of this Agreement, the following definitions shall apply:
1) “Participating State” means a State which has connted to be bound by the Agreement by deposition of its instrument of accession or ratification with the Executive Secretary of ESCAP.
2) “Original Participating States” means the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the Republic of India, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
3) “Developing member countries of ESCAP” means tho countries included in paragrap
如今你四海为家hs 3 and 4 of the terms of reference of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, including any future amendments thereto.
4) “Least developed country” means a country designated as such by the United Nations.
5) “Products” means all products including manufactures and commodities in their raw, mi-procesd and procesd forms.
美容院项目6) “Like product” is a product which is identical to the product under consideration or, in the abnce of such a product, another product which, although not identical, has characteristics cloly rembling tho of the product under consideration.
7) 过河小卒“Tariffs” means customs duties included in the national tariff schedules of the Participating States.
8) “Border charges and fees” means border charges and fees, other than tariffs, on foreign trade transactions with a tariff-like effect which are levied solely on imports, but are not indirect taxes and charges which are levied in the same manner on like domestic
products. Import charges corresponding to specific rvices rendered are not considered border charges and fees.
9) “Non-tariff measures” means any measures, regulations or practices, other than tariffs and border charges and fees, the effect of which is to restrict imports or to significantly distort trade.
