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

42.   The convention gives preferential trade treatment and development aid to ACP countries.

43.   The EU confirmed it would deny preferential trade terms to Serbia until President Milosevic resolves the dispute over the cancellation of opposition victories in local elections.

44.   The European countries have for years allowed preferential trade terms for their former colonies under aid-and-trade pacts.

45.   The European Union agreed to alter its current import system, which grants preferential trade access to goods from its former colonies in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

46.   The Gulf Cooperation Council states opened a conference Monday aimed at expanding their petrochemical industries with a warning to the European Union over its preferential trade policies.

47.   The old pact allowed for preferential trade.

48.   Under the convention, former colonies such as Zimbabwe benefit from preferential trade access to EU markets.

49.   India, however, has accused rival Pakistan of scuttling the preferential trade agreement by refusing to identify the items on which it wants tariff reductions.

50.   Ironically, it was Clinton last year who first rallied behind human rights for China threatening to yank preferential trade treatment unless Beijing significantly improved the situation.