International Commodity Agreements

A number of international commodity agreements serve solely as forums for information exchange, analysis, and policy discussion.

With particular emphasis . . . on international commodity agreements.

A joint EC-ACP committee would be set up to discuss co-operation on international commodity agreements and specialized working parties.

He then served as a consultant to the White House Office of the Special Trade Representative, here he analyzed potential international commodity agreements.

International commodity agreements covering products such as coffee, sugar, tin and more recently oil (OPEC) are examples of international cartels with publicly entailed agreements between different national governments.

It oversees international commodity agreements and export controls on agricultural commodities, foreign assistance programs and Food for Peace, marketing orders, inspection and certification of meat, flowers, fruit, vegetables and livestock.

And the timing is right, in my view, for an all-out push to achieve international commodity agreements that mutually reduce the subsidies and surpluses that are burdening taxpayers all over the world. . . . Cooperation in security relationships must improve.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs is also responsible for export controls, including nonproliferation of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware and international commodity agreements (other than those involving sugar) including all agreements for cooperation in the export of nuclear technology and nuclear hardware.