49. Urges the Governments of all developed countries:

(a) To make structural adjustments in their economies in order to facilitate the expansion of their imports from developing countries.

(b)

To take special measures to guarantee the increasing share of developing countries in their imports; to that effect:

(1)

(ii)

They should reduce and eliminate tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as internal taxes and other duties on imports from developing countries of commodities in their raw, semiprocessed and processed forms;

Developed countries which are not in a position
to eliminate internal taxes and other duties on
imports from developing countries should refund
the receipts derived therefrom to the developing
countries concerned;

(iii) They should take the necessary measures to
encourage consumption of products originated
in developing countries;

(iv) They should refrain from taking unilateral
measures, either general or specific, tending
to restrict imports originating in developing
countries;

(v)

In exceptional cases, and when products from developing countries compete with the national production of developed countries, the latter should, as a transitional step, assure a percentage in the consumption of such products to the imports from the developing countries.

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(c) wherever appropriate, to adopt specific commitments with regard to the sharing of their consumption needs between the national sources of supply and those of the developing countries, and make known bigger quantitative objectives for the import of competitive raw materials.

The Conference calls on Governments participating in the multilateral trade negotiations to give priority attention to the aforementioned measures guided by principles of non-reciprocal and preferential treatment for developing countries.

50. Aware that excessive and too frequent increases in freight rates have had adverse effects on exports of raw materials from developing countries and their export earnings, urges all States to sign and ratify as soon as possible the Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences.

51. Calls on Governments to establish a code of conduct on transfer of technology which should facilitate the transfer of technology to developing countries on easier terms and conditions contributing to accelerated economic and social development of these countries. The international patent system should be thoroughly revised so as to safeguard the special needs of developing countries.

1. Invites the international and intergovernmental organizations to elaborate a programme of action with regard, to raw materials and particularly energy, to be responsible for the harmonious development of the developing countries, bearing in mind the progressive and predictable depletion in several decades' time of these raw materials and in particular fossil fuels, oil and gas. 2.

Processing of Raw Materials

Invites the international organizations, in collaboration with the goverments of the developing countries, to elaborate and implement an operational plan for training supervisory staff at the earliest opportunity, to enable the developing countries to control their own development, from the exploitation of their raw materials resources up to industrialization. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXPORT AND IMPORT PRICES

Requests all Governments to co-operate with a view to bringing about just and equitable relationships between the market prices of raw materials, primary products, manufactured or semi-manufactured products exported by the developing countries and the prices of their imports from industrialized countries.

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Stresses the need for urgent positive measures to ensure the developing countries' increasing participation in the marketing and distribution of the primary products they export, with a view to increasing the net receipts they derive from these exports. Invites all governments to obtain relevant information on the prices applied including the transfer prices of intermediate, primary and processed products, by transnational corporations which carry out the production, processing and marketing of primary products in developing countries and to make such information available to producing countries.

Synthetic and Substitute Products

Invites the developing countries to adjust their policies concerning the expansion of the production capacity of synthetic substances, primarily in the light of the high social cost of production of such substances and of the adverse effects it has on the economies and environment of both developing and developed countries.

Assistance to developing countries to expand the production of commodities and processing industries

Strongly urges international financial institutions, the developed countries and developing countries in a position to do so, to adopt co-ordinated measures, in accordance with the decisions of principle adopted by the Conference, with a view to effecting a substantial increase in contributions to a fund for developing countries in order to expand production of commodities including agricultural products and the processing of raw materials in the developing countries, taking particular account of the requirements of the least developed among the developing countries and the most seriously affected countries.

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Interests of consumer developing countries

Strongly urges that provisions concerning the revaluation of the price of commodities exported to developing countries should include measures to safeguard the interests of consumer developing countries. Multilateral trade negotiations

Invites the Governments taking part in multilateral trade negotiations to agree to a high order of priority for the lowering or elimination of barriers to the imports from the developing countries, in particular of basic commodities (including the processed ones), in conformity with the principles of non-reciprocity, non-discrimination and preference for the developing countries.

The Conference invites the Governments of the developing countries taking part in the multilateral trade negotiations to co-ordinate their positions and to co-operate, during the negotiations, in order to ensure additional net advantages for their foreign trade.

The burden of debt

Immediately invites the industrialized countries to agree to a moratorium for the reimbursement of debt contracted by developing countries until the objectives for which financial assistance was given are achieved and the basic products of the developing countries reach the markets of the industrialized countries in the form of raw materials, semi-manufactured and manufactured products. The Conference further proposes the cancellation or re-scheduling of debts contracted on unfavourable terms.

Invites all Governments to co-operate in reforming the international monetary system in order that developing countries might play a further and more effective part in the operating of the system and that an automatic system of transferring real net resources to developing countries should be set up and that a connection might be established between Special Drawing Rights and additional development financing.

The new international monetary system is to be established on a universal and equitable basis.