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As a key industry in the Solomon Islands economy, the issue of fisheries subsidies is of considerable importance in Solomon Islands' engagement in the multilateral trading regime. As such, Solomon Islands considers excessive subsidisation by distant water fishing nations of their fisheries sectors as a key contributor to overfishing, with the resulting environmental and economic damage, as well as acting as a distortion to global fishing trade. Solomon Islands continues to argue that current WTO disciplines need to be strengthened and that certain forms of subsidies which contribute to overfishing and overcapacity should be curtailed.

The United States continues to rely on its trade advisory committee system as an integral part of its efforts to ensure that U.S. trade policy and trade negotiating objectives adequately reflect U.S. public and private sector interests. The trade advisory committee system, substantially broadened and reformed, consists of 28 advisory committees, with a total membership of approximately 700 advisors. Advisory committee members represent the full span of interests including manufacturing; agriculture; digital trade; intellectual property; services; small businesses; labor; environmental, consumer, and public health organizations; and state and local governments. The system is arranged in three tiers: the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN); five Policy Advisory Committees dealing with environment, labor, agriculture, Africa, and state and local issues; and 22 technical advisory committees in the areas of industry and agriculture.

(...) Vanuatu embraces a balanced approach fisheries and biodiversity through sustainable conservation, management and development. The Policy focuses on improving fisheries governance and sustainable and economically viable fisheries and aquaculture, access to finance: (...)

The Energy Policy of Armenia is aimed at ensuring energy independence and enhancing the energy security of the country, ensuring regional integration and sustainable development of the energy sector based on further development of nuclear energy, diversification of supply of energy sources and full and efficient use of local (renewable) energy resources, as well as promotion and implementation of energy-efficiency measures.

The United States continues to rely on its trade advisory committee system as an integral part of its efforts to ensure that U.S. trade policy and trade negotiating objectives adequately reflect U.S. public and private sector interests. (…) Advisory committee members represent the full span of interests including (...) environmental, consumer, and public health organizations; and state and local governments. The system is arranged in three tiers: the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN); five Policy Advisory Committees dealing with environment, labor, agriculture, Africa, and state and local issues; and 20 technical advisory committees in the areas of industry and agriculture.

In recent years our work to bolster economic integration bilaterally and trilaterally in North America has focused on the following areas:
• reducing non tariff barriers to trade and cross border transaction costs;
• improving supply chain logistics in the region;
• improving infrastructure and border optimization in North America; and
• strengthening innovation and entrepreneurship in our societies.
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• Adoption of the Third Mexico Canada Joint Action Plan, this plan was adopted in February 2014 and outlined the following four priority areas: (i) fostering competitive and sustainable economies; (ii) protecting our citizens; (iii) enhancing people to people contacts; and (iv) projecting the Mexico–Canada partnership globally and regionally.
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• High Level Strategic Dialogue (HLSD) between Mexico and Canada, established on 12 October 2016. The HLSD will provide guidance through a Ministerial Statement on functional cooperation mechanisms identifying the priority areas for future bilateral action. Actions taken as part of the Dialogue will focus on four themes:
- Shared and inclusive prosperity (includes areas that fall within the remit of the Mexico Canada Alliance working groups – agribusiness, environment, energy, forestry, human capital, education, science and technology, etc.)
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The importation of merchandise into the country includes an original commercial invoice with the shipper's letter head, stamp and signature. An attestation from the Chamber of Commerce must also accompany the cargo. All goods contained in the invoice must be identified by their HS Code which, in practice, implies that only authorized agents can clear consignments with the GCA. Emphasis was placed to protect the domestic market from products that are hazardous, non-compliant with standardized health norms and those found in violation of intellectual property rights.

The Government also has plans to work with private sector to establish organic fertilizer, chemical fertilizer, pesticides and agriculture equipment factories to facilitate supply of agricultural inputs as well as industries based on herbal and forest materials. (...)

Belize continues to identify ways to use its fishery resources in a sustainable manner and fight illegal and unreported fishing activities through continued development and implementation of adequate fisheries legislation. Training of enforcement personnel and continued cooperation with collaborators and partners in co-management and compliance with sub-regional and regional fisheries is ongoing.

Our energy transition policy is to become a nuclear-free homeland and raise the proportion of renewable energy generation to 20% by 2025. Based on the precondition of stable energy supply, we anticipate that the remaining 80% of the Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu's energy will be generated by thermal power plants. To accomplish this, we aim to increase power generation by natural gas-fired plants to 50% and reduce power generation by coal-fired plants to 30%. We are planning to actively develop renewable energy, including solar, wind and geothermal energy. In the meantime, we are promoting conservation to maximize energy efficiency. We are also hastening construction of the new LNG receiving station to increase imports of natural gas, contributing to the decrease of pollution and carbon emissions attributed to thermal plants.