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Doha Negotiating Group Chairs Acknowledge No Framework Deal Before August
The chairs of the Doha Round negotiations on agriculture and industrial goods last week announced the schedule for discussing the draft versions of conceivable deals that they will soon present to WTO Members, effectively abandoning hopes for a deadlock-breaking accord by the end of July. In a joint note to delegations on 5 July, agriculture Chair…
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Mercosur Agrees On Concessions To Paraguay, Uruguay, As ChÁVez Casts Cloud Over Summit
South American leaders from the Mercosur (Common Market of the South) trade bloc agreed at a recent summit to several measures aimed at mitigating asymmetries between the group’s minnows, Paraguay and Uruguay, and giants Brazil and Argentina. Nevertheless, clouds were cast over the meeting by controversy over Venezuela’s pending accession to the bloc. Established in 1991…
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In Brief
LOOKING BEYOND DOHA, APEC TRADE MINISTERS SEEK TO SIMPLIFY FTA ‘SPAGHETTI BOWL’ Trade ministers from the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation member countries are looking beyond the Doha Round negotiations to examine ways to boost trade across the region, though they maintain that the struggling multilateral talks remain their top priority. At a 5-6 July summit in…
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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. Coming Up: 12 - 18 July 2 - 27 July, Geneva, Switzerland. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (ECOSOC) 2007 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION. The 2007 Substantive Session for ECOSOC…
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Resources
THE STATE OF RESPONSIBLE COMPETITIVENESS 2007: MAKING SUSTAINABILITY COUNT IN GLOBAL MARKETS. AccountAbility, July 2007. Factors such as climate change, gender, human rights, and anti-corruption are reshaping global markets; successful countries will be those that can redefine public policies and business strategies to reflect those changes. Countries that fail to compete responsibly could miss out…