وشملت هذه الإجراءات مبادرة الاتحاد الأوروبي المسماة مبادرة “كل شيء ما عدا الأسلحة”، والقانون التشريعي الصادر في الولايات المتحدة باسم قانون النمو والفرص في أفريقيا، وتحسين كندا واليابان لمخططي نظام الأفضليات المعمم.
Although the participation of least developed countries in world trade remains marginal, several developed countries have recently taken policy action to improve the product coverage, depth of preferences and rules of origin of their autonomous preferential trading schemes for least developed countries, moving towards duty-free and quota-free market access, including the “Everything but arms” initiative of the European Union, the African Growth and Opportunity Act of the United States and improvement in the schemes of the generalized system of preferences by Canada and Japan.