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Africa and the Generalised System of Preferences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Robert L. Curry Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Sacramento State College, California, and currently at the University of Liverpool

Extract

The Generalized System of Preference is composed of various schemes under which donor countries, or regions, offer non-reciprocal and general tariff reductions on the imports of semi-manufactured and manufactured goods from developing countries. The G.S.P. differs from preferences previously granted to African countries by European nations in two ways: first, the preferences granted relate to a broad range of articles rather than relating to specific primary commodities; and secondly, they are non-reciprocal and do not bind developing countries to grant trade preferences on selected imported goods in order to receive them on some of the commodities and food-stuffs that they export.

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Africana
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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