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Davos: Ministers Reaffirm Hong Kong Deadlines, And A Bit More
Trade ministers from 25-odd WTO Member countries steered clear of the most divisive issues in the sluggish Doha Round negotiations during a ‘mini-ministerial’ meeting in Davos, Switzerland from 27-28 January, choosing instead to focus on the schedule and process that the talks need to follow in order to be concluded by the end of the…
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WTO Agriculture Week Sees G-10 Proposals, But Little Progress
WTO Members made little progress during their first talks on agriculture since the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference in December. The week of discussions from January 23-26 focused more on procedure than substance. Members generally agreed with agriculture Chair Crawford Falconer’s assessment that they should begin developing texts on a number of technical issues that need…
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WHO Addresses Trade, Health, IP, nd Innovation
Issues related to trade, research and development, and intellectual property rights featured on the agenda during the 23-27 January meeting of the Executive Board (EB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. All three were forwarded to the World Health Assembly, the organisation’s principal decision-making body, which is scheduled to meet there from 22-27…
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Agreement Reached On New Tropical Timber Trade Pact
Representatives from over 180 governments and international organisations reached consensus on a successor pact to the 1994 International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA) on 27 January, following two weeks of intensive negotiations in Geneva. The new commodities agreement aims to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in legally harvested tropical timber from sustainably managed…
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In Brief
KOREA LOWERS SCREEN QUOTAS, FTA TALKS WITH US TO FOLLOW? Korea announced on 26 January that it would halve its domestic screen quota, placing the launch of bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the US one step closer to becoming a reality. The possibility of FTA negotiations between the two countries has been mentioned repeatedly for…
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WTO Biotech Panel Report Delayed Yet Again
A WTO dispute panel has once again postponed the release of its preliminary report on the case brought by the US, Canada and Argentina against what they allege was an EU moratorium on the approval of new biotech products. On 30 January, panel Chair Christian Haeberli told the countries involved that the 1 February delivery…
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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 : 2 February - 8 February 2-4 February 2006, New Delhi, India: DELHI SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT (DSDS) 2006: DRIVING THOUGHT…
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Resources
NEGOTIATING HEALTH: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES. Edited by Pedro Roffe, Geoff Tansey and David Vivas-Eugui. International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and Earthscan, 2006. In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for…