Traduction de «Costa Rica Productive Sector Modernization Program » (Anglais → Français) :

Canadian business, including those in my riding of Etobicoke—Lakeshore, applaud measures taken by our Conservative government, including the signing of trade agreements with Panama, Costa Rica, Jordan, Honduras, Columbia and Peru and the modernizing of free trade agreements with Chile and Israel; the pursuit of new trade agreements with the European Union, India, Japan, Morocco, Ukraine and the great trading nations of the Pacific rim; the beyond the border initiative to streamline trade with the U.S.A., our lar ...[+++]gest trading partner; the lowering of corporate taxes, making Canada a preferred country to establish headquarters and create jobs; and maintaining the lowest deficit and debt ratios in the G8, underpinned by the world's most stable financial sector.

PROPOSALS FOR 1986 a. Industrial products other than textiles In accordance with its guidelines adopted in May, the Commission proposes : - an up-dating of the value or volume of existing quotas and ceilings on the basis of real patterns of trade, which will make it possible to offer substantial increases for a number of these products, with the exception of steel; (1) COM(85) 425 (2) P - 30 of April 1985. - 2 - - a general improvement in the preferences for the neediest developing countries and in particular : the withdrawal of 19 products from the list of sensitive products and a significant drop in the number of individual country qu ...[+++]otas, leaving 37 in total - 47 are to be abolished and 10 new quotas introduced for the most competitive countries in the sensitive sectors; - a small number of exclusions from preferences for certain products in the case of countries which, according to objective criteria (penetration rates equivalent to 2O% of Community imports), have achieved a degree of competiveness equal or superior to that of the Community in these products : the 26 exclusions affect Hong Kong (12 products), South Korea (10), Brazil (2) and Singapore (2). Lastly it is proposed to make a general increase in the preferential ceilings to take account of Portugal's and Spain's accession. b. Textiles The Commission proposes to increase certain ceilings for MFA products in accordance with the Council's decision in 1984 and also to make an across-the-board increase of 1.42% in all ceilings to take account of the accession of Portugal and Spain, and to include in the scheme Costa Rica and Argentina.

This programme, cofinanced with France, involves a series of training and experience exchange schemes (regional and national) and preinvestment schemes (consultansy services, studies, surveys and detailed analyses) centred on the issue of food security in the region (i.e. in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). The aim is to establish a regional framework for a food security policy and to identify concrete schemes to achieve this result in areas such as information, ...[+++]production , marketing, credit and research. - project entitled "Child survival in Central America". The aim here is to improve infant and maternity health policies in Central America, infant motality being particularly high in the region. The project, which the Community and Italy are cofinancing in roughly equal shares, will cost some 31 million dollars and be implemented with technical assistance from UNICEF. It consists essentially of training/information schemes, operating at all levels (advisory and programming staff, field managers and target population groups), and making available the necessary resources (medical equipment, medicines, transport equipment and vehicles).

Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama): 22 000 000 ECU Regional programme to improve cooperatives in Central America _____________________________________________________________ The purpose of this programme is to back up small and medium-sized cooperatives in various sectors in Central America so as to make a better job of using their con ...[+++]siderable production and resource-mobilization potential as part of the drive to get the regional economy off the ground again.