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Lamy Warns Members: Compromise Soon Or Face Failure
WTO Member governments "will be forced to confront the unpleasant reality of failure" in the Doha Round negotiations if they do not compromise soon, Director-General Pascal Lamy said on 9 May. Speaking to a meeting of the General Council, the WTO’s top permanent decision-making body, he highlighted the steps countries must take during the coming…
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White House, Democrats Reach Deal On Bilateral FTAs, Sparking Hopes For TPA
The Bush administration and senior Democratic lawmakers have struck a deal on environmental, labour, and drug patent protections in pending US bilateral free trade agreements, boosting their chances of receiving Congressional approval. Movement towards broader bipartisan cooperation on trade may also herald brightened prospects for the troubled Doha Round multilateral negotiations at the WTO. As per…
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Deep Divisions Persist On NAMA
WTO Members remain deeply divided on the extent to which they should have to cut tariffs on industrial goods as part of the Doha Round negotiations, at least on the basis of a week of discussions from 8-11 May. Although delegations turned to the core issue of the tariff reduction formula for the first time since…
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South Korea, EU Start Talks On Free Trade Agreement
South Korea and the EU completed their first round of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations in Seoul on 11 May, with both sides reporting substantial progress. Negotiators set themselves the goal of eliminating at least 95 percent of tariffs on bilateral trade within 10 years of the signing of an agreement. While no hard deadline for…
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WTO In Brief
SECOND INSTALMENT OF AG CHAIR’S CHALLENGES PAPER DELAYED The chair of the WTO talks on farm trade has postponed issuing the second instalment of a paper outlining parameters for a plausible deal on a number of areas in the troubled negotiations. The document, which will cover subjects not addressed by an earlier paper that also aimed…
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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 : 17-23 May 17 May, Washington, DC. INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION: A DEBATE AND DISCUSSION. Hosted by the Juris Conferences, this event will feature a presentation…
- Resources
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Resources
SOUTH-SOUTH ECONOMIC COOPERATION: ENHANCING GMS-INDIA RELATIONSHIP. CUTS Centre for International Trade, Economics and Environment, 2007. Trade experts have identified South-South trade cooperation as a critical tool for helping developing countries diversify their exports beyond primary commodities and reduce their dependence on the developed world. Inspired by such claims, this study analyses how…