Example sentences of "on [adj] trade in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On prices , changes introduced during 1991 , such as the abolition of the state monopoly on foreign trade in grain and the introduction of a 15 per cent tariff on imported grain , were confirmed . |
| 2 | In their struggle to gain control of the wool tax the commons arguably gained more by agreeing to grant the tax and receiving in return concessions on free trade in wool than they would have achieved by seeking to abolish the tax . |
| 3 | On July 1 , 1990 , the then Prime Minister , Palmer , visited Canberra to mark the abolition of the final restraints on free trade in goods between the two countries . |
| 4 | Such an argument would appear , however , to overestimate vastly the potential contribution of the ‘ Eastern hemisphere ’ in the postwar process of adjustment while ignoring the strength of European economic recovery which depended so much on intraregional trade in manufactured goods . |
| 5 | Controls on illegal trade in animals and plants will effectively disappear with the introduction of the European single market at the start of 1993 . |
| 6 | The 103 nations which are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) meet in Lausanne , Switzerland , from Monday . |
| 7 | The seventh conference of the 102-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , which opens in Lausanne today , promises some lively debates , particularly on orchids and ivory . |
| 8 | Representatives from 103 countries which are parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( Cites ) are still deeply split , but alternative proposals are being canvassed to prevent a confrontation . |
| 9 | This week in Lausanne , at the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , Kenya , supported by the governments of Gambia , Somalia and Tanzania , is indulging in a similar exercise in political theatre . |
| 10 | LOBBYING over a proposal to ban all trade in ivory divided the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) when it opened yesterday . |
| 11 | HONG KONG won British backing yesterday for a plan to continue trading from its stockpile of ivory , even if a world-wide ban is agreed by Cites , the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species . |
| 12 | Plant experts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) have agreed that more than 80 species of ‘ slipper ’ orchids — the genus paphiopedilum from Asia and the genus thragmipedium from South America — should be listed on the CITES Appendix I , which bans all commercial trade . |
| 13 | INTERNATIONAL conservation groups yesterday demanded the immediate sacking of Eugene Lapointe , the secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , amid mounting controversy over the conduct and funding of the CITES secretariat . |
| 14 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and flora , to give it its full name , is an international treaty which regulates one of the most lucrative and controversial businesses — the international wildlife trade . |
| 15 | Proposals from the US and Canada to remove North American populations of lynx , wolf and bobcat from Appendix II , and thereby remove all controls on international trade in these animals , could prove even more controversial . |
| 16 | At the moment trade in wild animals and plants is mainly controlled by the CITES treaty ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ) . |
| 17 | Now the 106 member states belonging to CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ) have imposed a ban on the import and export of the skins of spotted cats . |
| 18 | WWF will be campaigning hard for a total halt to the ivory trade when the organisation responsible for controlling wildlife trade — the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) — meets in Switzerland this month . |
| 19 | The international wildlife trade is controlled by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) which bans commercial trade in an agreed list of currently endangered species and regulates and monitors trade in others that might become endangered . |
| 20 | The two-year moratorium on ivory trading agreed in October 1989 by signatories to the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) [ see pp. 36988-89 ] came into effect on Jan. 18 , 1990 . |
| 21 | Representatives of the 114 governments which had signed the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora ( CITES ) held their triennial meeting on March 2-13 in Kyoto , Japan [ for 1989 meeting see pp. 36988-89 ] . |
| 22 | Although China is a member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , rhino is being smuggled into the country from Yemen , Hong Kong , Macao and Taiwan and to a lesser degree from Singapore and Thailand . |
| 23 | The Chinese government told the Lausanne-based Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) that it will withdraw the exemption it took out when the ban was agreed last October . |
| 24 | The hawksbill has been an internationally protected species since the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) treaty of 1973 . |
| 25 | Thailand was also criticized by the standing committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 26 | The four southern African nations have combined forces in response to the international ban on the ivory trade imposed under the auspices of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 27 | The Swedish action means that member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) will vote on whether to implement a ban at their next meeting next March in Kyoto . |
| 28 | Earlier this year , the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) urged the 110 signatory countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) treaty to boycott all Thai wildlife products , threatening the country 's highly profitable trade in legal wildlife products such as orchids and crocodile skins . |
| 29 | The wildlife departments of the governments concerned are to appeal for funds at the March meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 30 | According to the WSPA , five out of the world 's eight species of bears are endangered and six are listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |