1.   The agreement maintained a preferential price for Cuban sugar, lower than that of the previous five-year period, but higher than world prices.

2.   He says the various proposals differ on certain particulars but have many features in common, with most states permitting policyholders and executives to buy shares at preferential prices.

3.   Nearly all of it was imported, at preferential prices, from Soviet bloc countries.

4.   Such a step would prevent the company from applying pressure on them to favor other Microsoft products in order to get a preferential licensing price for Windows.

5.   Half of it provided free and the remainder is bought at preferential prices.

6.   The issue of European countries paying preferential prices for bananas from their former colonies in the Caribbean has led the United States to threaten further free-trade complaints.

7.   There were reports that Jordan last year sought preferential prices for oil from Saudi Arabia but was told the price would be at market rates.

8.   Traditional patrons Russia and China have also stopped selling grain to North Korea at preferential prices.

9.   Officials from the Union of Sugarcane Enterprises have urged the government to provide low interest loans and preferential prices to farmers growing the crop.