Traduction de «pays du marché commun arabe » (Français → Anglais) :

In addition to the traditional granting of preferences to ACP countries, which already enjoyed tariff-free access, preferential agreements have now been signed with other third countries such as those of the Central American Common Market (CACM) and the Andean Pact as part of the fight against drugs, and the recent inflow from south-east Asian countries following the opening of tariff quotas is creating a major market convulsion which merits close attention and monitoring.

having regard to the various free trade agreements, involving varying degrees of integration, by the Arab League, the Association of Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the South American Common Market (MERCOSUR), the South African Development Community (SADC) (and the South African Customs Union - SACU - established by members of the SADC), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), PI ...[+++]CTA (the Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement) and the Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New Age Partnership,

The countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) - Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil - are beneficiaries of the framework cooperation agreements with the European Union (EU) which entered into force in the first half of the 1990s.

The ACP countries have traditionally enjoyed preferences amounting to almost total tariff-free access. More recently, a number of preferential agreements with other third countries have been signed - for instance, with the Central American Common Market (CACM) and the Andean Pact (as a support measure in relation to their anti-drugs struggle). In the latest development, the opening-up of customs quotas has led to an invasion of the market by south-east Asian countries, bringing about a major convulsion which calls for close attention and monitoring.

Whereas there currently exist within the Member States of the Community producing bananas national market organizations which seek to ensure that producers can dispose of their products on the national market and receive an income in line with the costs of production; whereas these national market organizations impose quantitative restrictions which hamper achievement of a single market for bananas; whereas some of the Member States which do not produce bananas provide preferential outlets for bananas from the ACP States while others have liberal importation rules, which even in one case include a privileged tariff situation; whereas these different arrangements prevent the free movement of bananas within the Community and implemen ...[+++]tation of common arrangements for trade with third countries; whereas, for the purposes of achievement of the single market, a balanced and flexible common organization of the market for the banana sector must replace the various national arrangements;

Whereas the situation on the common market in steel has for some months shown a growing imbalance between supply and demand ; whereas increased production capacity both in Community countries and in the other steel-producing countries of the world has intensified competition on the world market ; whereas this has led not only to a fall in exports of steel from the Community, but also, and in particular, to a constant rise in imports of iron and steel products from third countries into the Community, creating an over-supply of iron and steel products on the common market;