Category:Preferential Trade Arrangements
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Preferential Trade Arrangements
Preferential trade arrangement Agreement among several states to grant each other favorable trade treatment.
- Margin of preference Difference between the tariff levels for members and those applied to each member by other states.
- Imperial preference System by which Britain and other Commonwealth countries reciprocally granted preferential trade to one another.
- Ottawa Agreement Britain adopted a general tariff in 1932 and granted special treatment for the dominions to sell their primary commodities in the British market in exchange for continued preference for British manufacturers in their markets.
Market oriented sector specific agreements (MOSS) Agreement between two countries to open up their markets to specific products and services, e.g. telecommunications between the US and Japan in the mid-1980s.
Reciprocity Term used by the European Community on the formulation of community regulations that other countries have to give the community equal treatment in the field in question.
Ratio of traded manufactured goods Plotting of the value of exports to the value of imports in manufactured goods to show the role of manufacturing in the economic structure.
Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) Uniform system of presenting and reporting trade statistics.
Trading companies (Export houses; Trading houses) Companies who specialize in trading all sorts of goods internationally. They can handle all aspects of international trade, including finance.
Sogo Shosha (Jpn) One of the Japanese great trading houses.
- See also Hong (Hong Kong)
