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WTO Members Reach 'Moment Of Truth' On Sensitive Farm Products
A handful of key agricultural exporters and importers have reached an outline agreement on expanding trade in ’sensitive’ farm products as part of the Doha Round global trade talks. The six co-sponsors of the new approach - Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the EU and the US - shared their proposed compromise with other WTO Members…
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US Democrats Vote To Indefinitely Suspend Action On Colombia FTA
Earlier this week, the Bush administration took a gamble: it sent a free trade agreement with Colombia to the US House of Representatives for consideration, in the face of objections from the leaders of the Democratic majority. The administration was betting that if it forced a vote, enough rank-and-file Democrats would support the agreement to…
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Climate Talks In Bangkok See Competitiveness Concerns Raised
Five days of contentious climate change talks in Bangkok concluded last week with an agreement on a timetable for negotiations that are supposed to culminate in a new United Nations accord on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2009.Meeting under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), delegates…
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EU loses on bananas again, this time to Ecuador
A second WTO panel has ruled that the EU’s reformed banana import regime remains out of compliance with international trade rules, potentially opening the door to trade sanctions from Ecuador, the world’s largest banana exporter.Cesar Montano Huerta, of Ecuador’s WTO mission, said that the ruling was a "big victory" but that Ecuador was "still hoping…
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Events
Coming up: 10 - 16 April 14 April, New York, New York, USA. SPECIAL HIGH LEVEL MEETING OF THE UN ECOSOC WITH THE WORLD BANK, IMF, WTO AND UNCTAD. The overall theme of the meeting will be "Coherence, coordination and cooperation in the context of the implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, including new challenges and emerging…
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Resources
THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM: AMENDMENTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON WTO MEMBERS’ SCHEDULES. By Dayong Yu. World Trade Organization, 2008. As an internationally standardized product nomenclature, the Harmonized System (HS) is used by WTO Members in their schedules of concessions and in the definitions of product coverage for a number of WTO agreements. The Harmonized System is…