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Several ACP Countries Sign EPAs With Brussels, As Group Continues To Splinter
With an end-year deadline looming, some countries in eastern and southern Africa have broken away from regional negotiating blocs to sign separate economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU. The prospect of losing preferential access to the EU market helped push these countriesto agree to open their own economies to a wide range of European…
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Taiwan Drops Opposition To Chinese Appellate Body Judge, Unblocking Wto Dispute System
Taiwan on 27 November dropped its opposition to the appointment of a Chinese lawyer to the WTO appellate body, paving the way for her and three other judges to be appointed to the global trade arbiter’s highest court. The move unblocked the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system, after the row over attorney Zhang…
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WHO Meeting Makes Slow Progress On Preparedness For Avian Flu Pandemic
Government health officials made limited progress in an attempt to find common ground on avian flu preparedness, despite four days of talks under the direction of the World Health Organization last week. Negotiations on improving surveillance and promoting vaccine research and development bogged down amidst procedural concerns and differing views, leaving many countries unhappy. Following the…
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WTO Global Review Puts 'Spotlight' On Aid-For-Trade
Aid donors and recipients demonstrated "general convergence" on how to proceed with ramping up assistance aimed at boosting poor countries’ ability to participate in international trade, sources said after a WTO conference on aid-for-trade in Geneva last week. According to the WTO, the 19-21 November ‘global review’ aimed to "provide an overview of what is -…
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In Brief
STILL STUCK ON AUTO TRADE, EU- KOREA FTA TALKS TO CONTINUE INTO NEXT YEAR Disagreements about automobile trade continued to stall negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and South Korea during a round of talks from 19-23 November. Negotiators made some progress on services, intellectual property rights, investment issues, and even on agriculture…
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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: 28 November - 5 December 29 November, Cairo, Egypt. MINISTERIAL MEETING OF THE GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ARAB COUNTRIES INITIATIVE. Organised by the…