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| TRADE IN
GOODS |
| Having achieved its objective of
establishing free trade within the enlarged Andean market,
the CAN is now seeking to perfect Community regulations
that govern that market and its management and to adopt
measures that will facilitate trade and contribute to its
transparency. Actions have accordingly been planned in the
following fields: 1)The Perfecting and Management of the
Enlarged Market, 2) Tariff Policy, 3) Rules of Origin, 4)
Motor Vehicle Agreement, 5) Safeguards, 6) Dumping and
Subsidies, 7) Corrective duties for tariff differences, 8)
Free Competition, 9)Technical Barriers to Trade, 10) Human
Health, 11) Tariff Classification, 12) Customs Valuation,
13) Customs Procedures and Systems, 14) Trade in
agricultural products and agricultural chains, and 15)
Andean Agricultural Health System. |
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TRADE IN
SERVICES AND INVESTMENTS |
| The aims are to foster the development
and harmonizing of rules and regulations on the
circulation of services within the Andean market; help
strengthen the Member Countries’ capacity to take
advantage of the benefits of intra-subregional trade in
services; and support the Andean countries’ preparation
for joint international services negotiations,
particularly those with the European Union. To those
effects, actions have been planned for 1) compliance with
Decision 659, which identifies services sectors for
further deregulation or for closer harmonization of
regulations, 2) Tourism, 3) Telecommunication and ICTs, 4)
Transportation, 5) Electric System Interconnection and 6)
Investment. |
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INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY |
| Community policy in this area covers the
patent system, utility models, lay-out designs of integrated
circuits, industrial designs, trademarks, commercial slogans,
tradenames, labels and geographic indications regulated in
Decisions 486 and 632; copyrights and related rights regulated
through Decision 351; the rights of obtainers of plant varieties
regulated in Decision 345; and access to genetic resources
established in Decision 391. |
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| GOVERNMENT
PROCUREMENT |
| Andean countries are encouraged to
cooperate with each other in making the best possible use
of their electronic contracting systems and laying the
groundwork for Community regulations to permit the
incorporation of government procurement into the Andean
enlarged market, thereby guaranteeing the strengthening of
national States. |
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COMPETITIVENESS, SMEs AND
SMALL PRODUCERS
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| The objectives are to reactivate the
Subregional Coordination System for Small and Medium-scale
Industry, to incorporate small producers and their
mechanisms into the integration process, to strengthen
inter-enterprise cooperation in order to improve market
access, and to have a mechanism in place to facilitate
access to the financial system by the economic
organizations of small producers, thereby fostering the
creation of Andean production chains. |
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MACROECONOMICS |
| The CAN fosters gradual macroeconomic policy
harmonization in order to consolidate subregional growth and
integration. Inflation and public debt targets and targets for
continuously monitored fiscal accounts have been defined
accordingly. The CAN’s efforts seek the economic stability of
its Member Countries so they can play a larger role in
international trade. |
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RURAL
DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD
SECURITY |
| Work is underway to set up a Subregional Forum
resting on a coordinated series of instruments like the Andean
Rural Development Network, the Territorial Development
Observatory, a Horizontal Cooperation Program, and an electronic
communication and information mechanism. In the case of Food
Security, the aim is to implement the projects on Food Security
for Indigenous Populations and Regional Food Security. |
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