Common use of Trade Promotion Clause in Contracts

Trade Promotion. The Member States shall adopt measures designed to promote trade within the Common Market. In this regard, Member States shall: (a) ensure the development and dissemination of market intelligence and trade information with a view to providing the widest possible knowledge-base of intra-Common Market trade opportunities and encourage the development of exports and markets to meet the public and private procurement needs; (b) actively encourage the undertaking of supply and demand surveys, the organisation of buyers and sellers meetings and other multi-country contact promotion events in order to further identify and exploit the potential of intra-Common Market trade; (c) undertake the removal of measures that have been identified during the market surveys, which restrict the flow of goods and services to their identified markets, including the establishment of agency offices, trade missions, free movement of samples and advertising; (d) identify the possibilities of product adaptation and diversification to broaden their respective export base with a view to expanding or introducing products to new markets in the Member States; (e) review and initiate programmes for the rationalisation and improvement of import operations and techniques to ensure that savings will accrue from such rationalisation of purchase operations; (f) seek to ensure that donor-funded import procurement programmes allow as far as possible for the purchase of goods from other Member States; (g) organise frequent general and specialised trade fairs; (h) improve the performance of small-and-medium scale enterprises for export development such as marketing, business management and the provision of credits; (i) promote export-oriented joint ventures, by encouraging and facilitating enterprise-toenterprise contacts; (j) support privatisation endeavours through the introduction of trade services or improvement of the trade promotion infrastructure to meet the special requirements of privatised companies; and (k) encourage the improvement of services relating to trade such as export financing, quality control and standardisation, packaging and specification aspects, warehousing and storage operations, and others that will increase the flow of goods within the Member States.

Trade Promotion. The Member States shall adopt measures designed to promote trade within the Common Market. In this regard, Member States shall: (a) ensure the development and dissemination of market intelligence and trade information with a view to providing the widest possible knowledge-base of intra-intra- Common Market trade opportunities and encourage the development of exports and markets to meet the public and private procurement needs; (b) actively encourage the undertaking of supply and demand surveys, the organisation of buyers and sellers meetings and other multi-country contact promotion events in order to further identify and exploit the potential of intra-intra- Common Market trade; (c) undertake the removal of measures that have been identified during the market surveys, which restrict the flow of goods and services to their identified markets, including the establishment of agency offices, trade missions, free movement of samples and advertising; (d) identify the possibilities of product adaptation and diversification to broaden their respective export base with a view to expanding or introducing products to new markets in the Member States; (e) review and initiate programmes for the rationalisation and improvement of import operations and techniques to ensure that savings will accrue from such rationalisation of purchase operations; (f) seek to ensure that donor-funded import procurement programmes allow as far as possible for the purchase of goods from other Member States;States;‌ (g) organise frequent general and specialised trade fairs; (h) improve the performance of small-and-medium scale enterprises for export development such as marketing, business management and the provision of credits; (i) promote export-oriented joint ventures, by encouraging and facilitating enterprise-toenterprise to-enterprise contacts; (j) support privatisation endeavours through the introduction of trade services or improvement of the trade promotion infrastructure to meet the special requirements of privatised companies; and (k) encourage the improvement of services relating to trade such as export financing, quality control and standardisation, packaging and specification aspects, warehousing and storage operations, and others that will increase the flow of goods within the Member States. CHAPTER SEVEN COMMON MARKET CUSTOMS CO-OPERATION ARTICLE 63 Scope of Customs Co-operation 1. The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to any activity being undertaken in co- operation among the Member States in the field of customs management and theorganization of customs and shall include in particular: (a) matters concerning the application of Common Market tariff treatment for their exports and imports; (b) the simplification and harmonization of trade documents, customs regulations and procedures with particular reference to such matters as the valuation of goods, tariff classification, temporary admission, warehousing, re-exports, frontier trade and export drawback; (c) the prevention, investigation and suppression of customs offences; (d) national and joint institutional arrangements; and (e) training facilities and programmes for customs officials. 2. The provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article shall not affect the gradual establishment of a common external tariff in respect of goods imported into the Member States from third countries.

Trade Promotion. The Member States shall adopt measures designed to promote trade within the Common Market. In this regard, Member States shall: (a) ensure the development and dissemination of market intelligence and trade information with a view to providing the widest possible knowledge-base of intra-Common Market trade opportunities and encourage the development of exports and markets to meet the public and private procurement needs; (b) actively encourage the undertaking of supply and demand surveys, the organisation of buyers and sellers meetings and other multi-country contact promotion events in order to further identify and exploit the potential of intra-Common Market trade; (c) undertake the removal of measures that have been identified during the market surveys, which restrict the flow of goods and services to their identified markets, including the establishment of agency offices, trade missions, free movement of samples and advertising; (d) identify the possibilities of product adaptation and diversification to broaden their respective export base with a view to expanding or introducing products to new markets in the Member States; (e) review and initiate programmes for the rationalisation and improvement of import operations and techniques to ensure that savings will accrue from such rationalisation of purchase operations; (f) seek to ensure that donor-funded import procurement programmes allow as far as possible for the purchase of goods from other Member States; (g) organise frequent general and specialised trade fairs; (h) improve the performance of small-and-medium scale enterprises for export development such as marketing, business management and the provision of credits; (i) promote export-oriented joint ventures, by encouraging and facilitating enterprise-toenterprise to- enterprise contacts; (j) support privatisation endeavours through the introduction of trade services or improvement of the trade promotion infrastructure to meet the special requirements of privatised companies; and (k) encourage the improvement of services relating to trade such as export financing, quality control and standardisation, packaging and specification aspects, warehousing and storage operations, and others that will increase the flow of goods within the Member States.