preferential customs

Key issues relate to the Tariff, duties, intellectual property (IP), VAT and preferential customs schemes.

Given that the ?U has no intention of changing this preferential customs regime for the USA and Turkey, we need to really boost these specific measures, not just maintain them.

The main reason it has been unable to do so is because the specific measures fall well short of actual requirements and, more importantly, of the Community's preferential customs regime for third countries such as the USA and Turkey.