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trade effects from the activities of multinational enterprises, covering practices in production, pricing, marketing and sales:

the scope of different countries to benefit from trade expansion:

examination of specific key areas such as unfair trade, and competition policy (and links to anti-dumping action);

further analysis of the economics of anti-dumping actions in different countries and the evidence of predatory pricing:

further analysis of quantification of overall levels of protection and tariffication of non-tariff barriers.

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In order to bring some structure to the discussion it might be useful to group these issues into three broad themes.

Trade policy in a broader perspective. It is becoming increasingly difficult and inappropriate to limit a discussion of trade policies to the consideration of traditional trade measures. The conditions of trade are now increasingly influenced by domestic macro and micro-economic policies, including in the fields of competition. technology development, environment, investment and subsidies, as well as by the strategies of firms.

Continuing protectionist pressures. These may well shift to new areas or sectors and/or express themselves through policies or instruments that have not been fully disciplined in the Uruguay Round. In addition, different trade instruments can be used interchangeably by governments to pursue similar objectives.

Regional co-operation and its repercussions on the multilateral system. What are the relationships between the process of globalisation (occurring essentially at the level of the firm) and regionalisation (essentially at the macroeconomic levels)?

b) Broadening the Informal Dialogue with DAES-

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Since all the recommendations by the Informal Workshops concern further deepening of selected subjects opened up by these Workshops, topics should also be introduced that would enable the informal dialogue with the DAEs to I be broadened to a few other sectors. Such possible topics are identified

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Long-Term Perspectives of the World Economy

24. A large majority of Member countries and a number of DAES have recently completed, or are in the process of completing, projections of their national economies to the year 2000. Such studies are of interest in their own right. But even more interesting is their potential usefulness as building blocks for developing an integrated picture of the future of the world economy ten years hence.

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The aim of an informal meeting, which could be organised within the framework of the OECD Forum for the Future, would be to have an exchange of

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