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Members Focus On Chair's 'Questions' About WTO Agriculture Talks
An ‘agriculture week’ is underway at the WTO, with Members discussing a set of specific questions about each issue that remains unresolved in the contentious Doha Round farm trade talks. Produced by Chair Ambassador Crawford Falconer (New Zealand), the questions were intended to focus Members’ formal and informal discussions on how they might overcome their…
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Rules Chair Calls For Textual Proposals On Fisheries Subsidies
WTO Members resumed negotiations on rules to constrain fisheries-specific subsidies by discussing a November 2005 proposal in which nine countries seeking a broad-based ban on such grants outlined a set of "principles to guide the development" of new disciplines. At the 8 February meeting of the Negotiating Group on Rules, Chair Ambassador Guillermo Valles Galmes…
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In Brief
NOVARTIS PATENT APPLICATION FOR CANCER DRUG FOUND INSUFFICIENT IN INDIA Indian authorities have rejected Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug imatinib mesylate, generally known by the brand name ‘Gleevec,’ thus re-opening the way for generic production. Health activists and patients’ groups are celebrating the decision, anticipating dramatically…
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Services Cluster Underway, Plurilateral Requests In The Works
Several different groups of WTO Members are attempting to finalise collective requests for market access in a range of different services sectors ahead of the end-February deadline set out in the Hong Kong Ministerial Declaration. Trade negotiators expect plurilateral requests for market access in sectors including telecom, energy, logistics, and financial services, as well as…
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Resources
TRADE, AID AND SECURITY — SIX KEY OBJECTIVES. By the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), 2006. This series of six policy briefings identifies objectives for policymakers to focus on in order to ensure that trade and aid policy support peace and security rather than increase the likelihood and…