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Falconer Paper On Special Products Splits G-33, Farm Exporters
The G-33 group of developing countries has criticised the chair of the ongoing WTO agriculture negotiations for his unfavourable assessment of the market access flexibilities they are seeking, particularly his implication that the approach they favour would allow developing countries to shield an inappropriately high proportion of farm imports from the full force of tariff…
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NAMA: No Progress Even On Minor Issues; SVE Paper Meets Opposition
WTO non-agricultural market access (NAMA) Chair Ambassador Don Stephenson (Canada) told a meeting of all Member delegations on 10 May that a week of informal consultations had not yielded "any meaningful progress" even on the relatively minor issues being discussed. Since setting out a work plan for six weeks of continuous negotiations aimed at achieving an…
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WIPO Moves Forward On Broadcasting Treaty, Webcasting Talks Split Off
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) members have agreed to split off webcasting from their ongoing discussions on a potential new treaty intended to define the rights of broadcasters over their transmissions. The compromise was reached during the 1-5 May meeting of the ‘Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR),’ the WIPO technical body that is…
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In Brief
ACP SUGAR PRODUCERS DISAPPOINTED WITH EU COMPENSATION Eighteen sugar producing countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group have expressed disappointment at what they deem to be inadequate compensation for the loss of revenues resulting from the EU’s sugar reform process. Under the reform, which was prompted in part by an April 2005 WTO ruling…
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AG Chair Circulates Reference Paper On SVEs
WTO agriculture negotiators from some 20-odd countries expressed broad sympathy for the concerns of small and vulnerable economies (SVEs) during a so-called ‘Room F’ small-group consultation on 4 May. However, final arrangements for SVEs are likely to depend on the kinds of special and differential treatment ultimately agreed to for all developing countries. Agriculture Chair…
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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 : 11-17 May 10-12 May, Bad Blamau, Austria: WORKSHOP ON REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. This workshop, put on by Joanneum Research, will consider methodological…
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Resources
REVIVING THE SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE. Edited by Jean-Marie Paugam and Anne -Sophie Novel. Institut Francais des Relations Internationales, 2006. Forty years after being developed, the main concepts underlying the traditional approach of special and differential treatment (S&D) in the GATT/WTO system seem largely exhausted. Based on the notions…