This is a communication from the Trade Directorate-General of the European Commission
The European Commission has proposed opening its markets to all goods except arms from the world's poorest countries. Its proposal to the Council of Ministers would grant duty-free, quota-free access for products from the 48 Least Developed Countries.
New Zealand Herald | September 20, 2000 | By JANE KELSEY *
Imagine the Government has announced a law that would prohibit any future government from ever reintroducing tariffs on anything, while it concedes that more factories will close and workers, mainly Maori and Pacific Island women, will lose their jobs as a result.
Agence France Presse
PRAGUE, Sept 19 (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund is set to unveil its closely watched economic outlook report here early Tuesday, launching the first annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in a former bastion of Communism.
Agence France Presse
PRAGUE, Sept 19 (AFP) - Poverty has soared in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia, while inequalities have also increased in some former Soviet states, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday.
