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Mandelson, US Officials Hold &Quot;Quiet Talks&Quot; On Doha Round
At the end of three days of "quiet exploratory talks" in Washington from 27-29 September, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson expressed the hope that all players in the frozen Doha Round trade talks would show the "flexibility" needed to bring the negotiations to fruition. Mandelson met with top officials from the Bush administration, as well as…
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DSU Roundup: US Cotton; China Auto Parts; US Shrimp Ad Duties
Although the Doha Round negotiations remain at a halt, the WTO dispute settlement system is working at full pace. Compliance panel created in US-Brazil cotton case At its 28 September meeting, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) established a panel to determine whether the US had indeed complied with an 18-month old…
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Lead Stories
WIPO GENERAL ASSEMBLY FINDS WAY FORWARD ON BROADCAST TREATY, DEVELOPMENT AGENDA World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) members managed to agree on how to address a series of divisive issues during a recent meeting of the institution’s senior decision-making body. WTO: BIOTECH PANEL LARGELY CONFIRMS INTERIM FINDINGS AGAINST EU A WTO dispute panel has confirmed…
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In Brief
NEW UNCTAD REPORT BACKS CALLS FOR A ‘MARSHALL PLAN’ FOR AFRICA The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has endorsed calls for a Marshall Plan for Africa, in a report that also cautions that an improved framework for dealing with foreign assistance will be necessary if large increases in…
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WTO In Brief
BEEF HORMONES DISPUTE PANEL HOLDS SECOND PUBLIC HEARING The second public panel hearing in the longstanding WTO dispute on beef hormones among the EU, the US, and Canada took place on 2-3 October. As for the first panel hearing in September 2005, the proceedings were broadcast through closed-circuit television to…
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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 at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Upcoming : 5-11 October 8-12 October, Gothenburg, Sweden: 40TH WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONGRESS. This meeting is organised by the Canadian Group of the International…
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Resources
MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK. By Joseph Stiglitz. W.W. Norton, September 2006. An imaginative and, above all, practical vision for a successful and equitable world, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz’s ‘Making Globalization Work’ draws equally from his academic expertise and his time spent on the ground in dozens of countries around the world. In clear language…