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Doha Negotiations To Start Again Next Week In Geneva, Davos
Negotiations at the WTO are set to start up again next week, as trade diplomats return to Geneva a month after the December 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. The task before them is formidable. Ministers’ main decision at the December meeting was simply to keep talking: in order to avert another Cancun-style collapse, they simply…
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WTO Interim Ruling On EU GMO Case Delayed To February
The Chair of the WTO dispute panel considering the case brought by the US, Canada and Argentina against what they allege was an EU moratorium on the approval of new biotech products announced on 3 January that it would not distribute its interim preliminary report to the parties to the dispute before early February 2006. The…
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In Brief
TRADE IN WILD CAVIAR BANNED TO SAVE STURGEON Legal trade in wild sturgeon caviar among the 169 parties to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was suspended on 3 January due to concerns over the impact of trade in the species on its survival. The CITES Secretariat’s…
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Events
EVENTS For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar. If you would like to submit an event, please email us. Upcoming : 19 December - 25 January 23 January, Geneva, Switzerland: PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR DIALOGUE ON RESPONSIBLE COMPETITIVENESS: ENHANCING ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT…
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Resources
THE STANDSTILL IN SUBSIDIES - UPDATE. By Matthew Walls and Damon Vis-Dunbar. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), November 2005. This paper updates a previous IISD publication which concluded that the six months following the WTO’s July 2004 framework agreement must be considered a disappointment for those seeking ambitious, cross-sectoral subsidy reform in the Doha…