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Market Access Kick-Starts Debate on Chair's Draft WTO AG Deal
Market access issues have dominated the start of a three-week phase of intensive consultations by the chair of the WTO agriculture negotiations. The talks, centring on the draft agreement text issued in July by Chair Ambassador Crawford Falconer (New Zealand), are widely seen as an especially serious ‘make-or-break’ moment for the Doha Round, with delegates warning…
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APEC Calls For Doha Progress - But Does It Mean Anything?
"There has never been a more urgent need to make progress" in the faltering Doha Round of trade talks, declared leaders from 21 Pacific Rim countries last weekend, while pledging once more to work for the prompt conclusion of a global accord. Meeting in Sydney on 8-9 September for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual forum,…
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UNCTAD Issues Warning On North-South FTAs, Calls For More Exchange Rate Management
The proliferation of bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) and preferential trade agreements (PTAs) may be more costly for developing countries than was previously expected, according to a new study by the United Nations. The Trade and Development Report for 2007, released on 5 September by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), claims that trade…
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In Brief
WIPO MEMBERS CONSIDER IMPLEMENTATION OF DEVELOPMENT AGENDA Members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) met last week to decide which items of the ‘development agenda’ agreed earlier this year could be implemented immediately. However, several countries queried a provisional list prepared by the WIPO Secretariat, and the informal consultation will be resumed next week.…
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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: 13-19 September 13-14 September, Lima, Peru. MOBILIZING AID FOR TRADE: FOCUS LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Organised by the WTO and the Inter-American Development…
- Resources
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Resources
TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2007 - REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), September 2007. The report recommends that developing countries should strengthen regional cooperation with other developing countries, but should proceed carefully with regard to North-South bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements. It suggests that strengthened…