31.   Sugar industry leaders say there is no need to offer new trade concessions because WTO rules allow the imposition of higher tariffs if an industry faces an imminent threat.

32.   The drafts urged preferential trade concessions for poorer nations and freer movement of labor to match recent liberalization of capital flows.

33.   The deal calls for free movement of capital and reciprocal trade concession.

34.   The EU has been negotiating with both on offering trade concessions,

35.   The European Union on Thursday signed a package of trade concessions for Ukraine, establishing closer commercial ties between the western bloc and the former Soviet republic.

36.   The EU on Thursday is to sign, with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, a package of trade concessions for Ukraine.

37.   The European Union will hand over to Russia a generous package of trade concessions later this month, EU officials said Tuesday.

38.   The interim accord includes a series of trade concessions and economic benefits that Russia is also seeking from the Union.

39.   The ministers also agreed to start talks with Croatia aimed at giving it trade concessions.

40.   The plan offers no new aid money or concrete trade concessions and is largely a reaffirmation of previously announced initiatives.