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IMPORT BARRIERS [5 records]

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Record 1 2025-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • Domestic Trade
  • Customs and Excise
CONT

Provinces have the autonomy to act unilaterally, allowing their residents and businesses greater freedom to source goods and services from across the country. They can choose to reduce or eliminate barriers to imports from other provinces, thereby avoiding unnecessary costs.

OBS

import barrier; barrier to imports: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • import barriers
  • barriers to imports

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Commerce intérieur
  • Douanes et accise
CONT

Les accords commerciaux réduisent souvent les obstacles à l'importation, suscitant une concurrence accrue sur le marché intérieur.

OBS

Exemples d'obstacles à l'importation : des mesures tarifaires ou non tarifaires sur des biens ou des services qui sont imposées par un pays ou une province à l'importation.

OBS

obstacle à l'importation; barrière à l'importation : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • obstacles à l'importation
  • barrières à l'importation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Comercio interno
  • Aduana e impuestos internos
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Record 2 2015-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Foreign Trade
OBS

In accordance with the Export and Import Permits Act, the Trade Controls and Technical Barriers Bureau is responsible for issuing permits and certificates for various products included on the Import Controls List(ICL).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Commerce extérieur
OBS

Conformément à la Loi sur les licences d'exportation et d'importation, la Direction générale de la réglementation commerciale et des obstacles techniques est chargée de la délivrance des permis et des certificats pour divers produits figurant sur la Liste des marchandises d'importation contrôlée (LMIC).

Spanish

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Record 3 2007-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of International Laws and Regulations
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Under the World Trade Organization (WTO), a specific agreement establishing disciplines on the preparation, adoption and application of technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures, that might act as technical barriers to trade.

OBS

Code on Technical Barriers to Trade :... the Tokyo round had mixed results. It failed to come to grips with the fundamental problems affecting farm trade and also stopped short of providing a new agreement on "safeguards"(emergency import measures). Nevertheless, a series of agreements on non-tariff barriers did emerge from the negotiations, in some cases interpreting existing GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] rules, in others breaking entirely new ground. In most cases, only a relatively small number of(mainly industrialized) GATT members subscribed to theses agreements and arrangements. Because they were not accepted by the full GATT membership, they were often informally called "code".

Key term(s)
  • Standards Agreement
  • TBT Code

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements internationaux
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Accord de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) qui établit des disciplines régissant l'élaboration, l'adoption et l'application de règlements techniques, de normes et de procédures d'évaluation de la conformité pouvant avoir pour effet de créer des obstacles techniques au commerce.

OBS

Accord sur les obstacles techniques au commerce : titre d'un accord de l'Organization mondiale du commerce (OMC) signé en 1994.

OBS

Accord relatif aux obstacles techniques au commerce : titre d'un accord du GATT [Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce] signé en 1979.

Key term(s)
  • Code relatif aux obstacles techniques au commerce

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de leyes y reglamentos internacionales
  • Comercio exterior
OBS

Acuerdo de la Organización Mundial del Comercio firmado en 1994.

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Record 4 1999-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade
  • National and International Economics
DEF

International trade that takes place without the imposition of any tariffs or other barriers, such as quotas, government procurement rules, or import or export licences, to the free movement of goods and services.

OBS

Compare with "protectionism".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Économie nationale et internationale
DEF

Politique économique se caractérisant par la suppression des barrières tarifaires et non tarifaires pouvant entraver les échanges commerciaux entre pays.

Key term(s)
  • libre échange

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercio exterior
  • Economía nacional e internacional
DEF

Ausencia de derechos de aduana y la libertad plena de movimientos y transferencias de un país a otro, sin ningún tipo de restricciones.

Key term(s)
  • libertad de comercio
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Record 5 1980-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
OBS

A good many export marketing campaigns have come to grief because those responsible have paid less attention to potential socio-cultural barriers to success than to more obvious factors such as import restriction or domestic competition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
OBS

De nombreuses campagnes de marketing à l'export ont abouti à un échec parce que ceux qui étaient responsables ont fait moins attention aux obstacles socio-culturels qu'à des critères plus évidents tels que les restrictions douanières ou la concurrence intérieure.

Spanish

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