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preference
1. Law
a. the settling of the claims of one or more creditors before or to the exclusion of those of the others
b. a prior right to payment, as of a dividend or share in the assets of a company in the event of liquidation
2. Commerce the granting of favour or precedence to particular foreign countries, as by levying differential tariffs


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Advocate General Bot's said Thursday in an opinion in Case C-386/08 before Court of Justice of the European Communities, that products originating from the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) are not entitled to preferential customs treatment under the EC-Israel Agreement<p>"The Community customs authorities must refuse to recognise the Israeli origin of those products," he added.
To search for endogenous estrogens that may have preferential binding affinity for human estrogen receptor (ER) alpha or beta subtype and also to gain insights into the structural determinants favoring differential subtype binding, we studied the binding affinities of 74 natural or synthetic estrogens, including more than 50 steroidal analogs of estradiol-17beta (E2) and estrone (E1) for human ER alpha and ER beta.
Besides information on import tariffs, import requirements and trade statistics, the site now offers detailed information on the preferential arrangements in place between the EU and developing countries, the union said in a statement issued here on Wednesday.
 
 
 
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