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"en.20111213.26.2-362-500"2
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"I voted in favour of this report. EU companies with activities in third countries continue to face major barriers. Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) remain one of the greatest problems and refer to all trade restricting measures other than import duties (tariffs) that limit imports. NTBs include direct price influencers (such as export subsidies or drawbacks, countervailing and anti-dumping duties, exchange rate manipulations, methods of import valuation, customs surcharges, unreasonable standards and inspection procedures), and indirect price influencers (such as import licensing, import quotas and ‘voluntary’ export restraints). Removing or reducing unjustified NTBs and other regulatory obstacles applied by the EU’s key strategic partner countries by means of regulatory dialogue should be one of the key regulatory priorities of the new EU trade policy under the Europe 2020 strategy. The issue of access to public procurement for EU companies in third countries also needs to be addressed. Public procurement procedures in the EU’s strategic partner countries tend to be closed to foreign participants and are still relatively unaffected by international commitments, while the EU is much more open than other countries in this regard. Under EU law, European and foreign companies can tender for European public contracts without discrimination, and the EU must therefore become more involved and reach agreements with its main trading partners to give European companies fair and equitable access to procurement procedures in third countries."@en1
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