Traduction de «rival in trade » (Anglais → Français) :

When you have European industry now representing different views and competing interests and, frankly, making very different rival submissions as to whether they want trade defence measures adopted, that is bound to be reflected in the positions of our Member States.

Secondly, I would say that we need to obtain agreements within the WTO whereby certain countries which are our rivals or which have zero duty access to our markets, or at least very low levels of duty, are required to reduce their current high duty levels as an essential part of trade liberalisation.

The Commission's failure to allocate sufficient resources, the lack of a strategic policy, and the fact that the external dimension of the CFP falls outside the sphere of the CFSP and the EU's international trade relations all conspire to place the Community fisheries sector in a position where it has - unlike its rivals - to compete without the support of the economic and commercial power to which it belongs.

A European Parliament report (published by the STOA) indicates that an industrial espionage data network known as "ECHELON" has been developed with the participation of countries which are among the principal trade rivals of the EU (USA, Canada etc.), together with the United Kingdom.

With Brazil in the lead, the MERCOSUR countries are developing a trade bloc that in size and growth will, by the early part of the next century, rival Europe.

This must be taken much further by: - ensuring smooth operation of the internal market: further deregulation, based on the Molitor working party set up for this purpose, combined with redefinition of the public service objectives, streamlined, transparent procedures and improved decision-making structures; and - making full use of the instruments available to facilitate industrial change, putting the accent on small businesses and taking account of the regional imbalances; using the Structural Funds, particularly the Community initiative programmes, to facilitate the development of competitive clusters of activities, combined with improved training, dissemination of technology and closer partnerships between big and small firms, etc. The ...[+++]competitive position of European industry In recent years European industry's competitiveness has improved considerably: - the European Union had a trade deficit with the USA in the late '80s, but improved its position appreciably in the early '90s when it cut its trade deficit by 90%, from ECU 21 billion in 1991 to ECU 2 billion in 1993; - European companies' financial structures are far healthier and their average debt ratio is well below their rivals'; - unit labour cost trends over the last ten years in the European Union compare favourably with those of its leading rivals: between 1980 and 1993 real unit wage costs fell more sharply in the Union (down 9.7%) than in the USA (1.2%) and Japan (8.3%).