1. They also adopted a new plan for common effective preferential tariffs on selected industrial products to facilitate the free flow of goods within ASEAN. 2. GSP is a framework under which developed countries give preferential tariff treatment to manufactured goods imported from certain developing countries. 3. He also holds Chiquita Brands International Inc., which lost about half its market when Europe started giving preferential tariffs to bananas coming from the Caribbean. 4. Removing preferential tariff rates on imports of Colombian flowers, for example, would be one way to step up pressure on Colombian President Ernesto Samper to resign. 5. The sanctions could include eliminating preferential tariffs on Colombian exports or cutting landing rights at airports in the United States. 6. U.S. Trade Rep. Mickey Kantor said preferential tariff treatment for imports of some products from Pakistan should be suspended because of continued child labor abuses. 7. Peru has lobbied for the U.S. Congress to ratify an accord that gives imports from Peru and three other Andean nations preferential tariff treatment in the United States. 8. At stake are preferential tariff and quotas the European Union awards its former colonies. 9. Bush also has pledged to push a trade bill through Congress that would grant preferential tariff treatment to imports from Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador. 10. Chan asked South Korea to correct its preferential tariff accorded to U.S. corn and soybean over Canadian feed barley and canola. |