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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum: Osaka Action Agenda on Implementation of the Bogor Declaration (Trade Liberalization and Facilitation; Economic and Technical Cooperation)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1996

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References

* [Reproduced from the text provided by the APEC Secretariat.

[The APEC Dispute Mediation Experts Group Reports on a Voluntary Consultative Dispute Mediation Service, June 18, 1995 and April 23, 1996, with an Introductory Note by Brendan P. McGivern, appear at 35 I.L.M. 1102 (1996), and the APEC Declaration of Common Resolve, done at Bogor, November 15, 1994, appears at 34 I.L.M. 758 (1995).

[The ASEAN Bangkok Summit Declaration, done at Bangkok, December 15,1995, appears with an Introductory Note by Sompong Sucharitkul at 35 I.L.M. 1063 (1996)]

1 Liberalization and facilitation are treated together in this part due to their inseparable nature in achieving our goal of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific. The economic and technical cooperation dealt with here is that which directly supports liberalization and facilitation.

2 “Tariffs” here refers to import/export tariffs as well as tariff quotas.

3 These non-tariff measures include quantitative import/export restrictions/prohibitions, import/export levies, minimum import prices, discretionary import/export licensing, voluntary export restraints and export subsidies.

4 The following Collective Actions have been extracted from the annexed Action Programs of Working Groups in which substantial progress has already been made in services, in order to illustrate liberalization and facilitation related activities to be undertaken in these sectors. Activities in these sectors are also dealt with in Part Two

5 “Standards” include mandatory as well as voluntary standards. The term “standards” is used in this document to refer generally to matters covered in the TBT and SPS Agreements.

6 Economic and technical cooperation which directly supports trade and investment liberalization and facilitation is mainly dealt with in Part One.