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Doha Round: Can St. Petersburg Summit Yield A Breakthrough?
As WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy continues his attempts to promote consensus in the troubled Doha Round negotiations, several trade diplomats are looking to the upcoming G8 summit in St. Petersburg for major trading nations to come up with a way out of the deadlock. The group of eight leading industrialised nations (G8) is holding its annual…
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Members Continue To Debate How To Address Environmental Goods
WTO Members continue to search for an acceptable approach for identifying ‘environmental goods’ to slate them for expedited trade liberalisation. At the Committee on Trade and Environmental Special Session (CTE-SS) meeting on 6-7 July, familiar divisions reappeared as delegates debated how best to fulfil the Paragraph 31(iii) mandate of the Doha Declaration to negotiate on…
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In Brief
US AND CANADA FINALISE SOFTWOOD LUMBER DEAL The US and Canada on 1 July signed an agreement regulating trade in softwood lumber, marking a new truce in their two decade-long dispute. Based on a tentative deal struck in April, the formal accord halts all legal battles and retaliatory duties on softwood…
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WTO In Brief
TALKS TO CONTINUE ON S&D MONITORING MECHANISM WTO Members continued to differ on the role that a monitoring mechanism should play in the implementation of special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing countries, at a 7 July meeting of the Committee on Trade and Development Special (negotiating) Session (see BRIDGES…
- Events
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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 : 13-19 July 15-17 July, St. Petersburg, Russia: G8 SUMMIT. The Group of Eight (G8) is an unofficial forum of the heads of the leading industrialised democracies…
- Resources
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Resources
SIGNED AND SEALED? TIME TO RAISE THE DEBATE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE TALKS. By Panos London, July 2006. A new media brief on trade explores how journalists can draw attention to the issues, exploit public interest, and raise the debate on whether trade deals will positively or negatively affect people’s lives. While the Doha Round has…