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NAMA Chair: Members Finally Getting Ready For “A Real Negotiation”;
WTO Members are still far from agreement on how to cut tariffs on manufactured goods, the chair of the Doha Round negotiations on non-agricultural market access acknowledged this week. Key countries remain divided on the figures that will determine future manufacturing tariff levels for industrialised and developing nations. However, there is increasing convergence on…
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AG: Positions Harden On Special Products, Special Safeguard Mechanism
WTO Members are failing to converge on special treatment for developing countries in the Doha Round agriculture negotiations. Countries largely repeated established positions on theses issues earlier this week. The chair of the negotiating committee on 15 April even suggested that the talks were going “backwards.” Particularly controversial at the committee meeting, open to the entire…
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US Lawmakers Extend Farm Bill For A Week While Pursuing Compromise
With lawmakers in Washington still struggling to come to agree on a new farm bill, the US House of Representatives on 16 April voted for a one-week extension to the current bill. As the American planting season begins, US farmers have stressed that if no agreement can be reached, the current farm bill…
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Events
Coming up: 17 - 23 April 19 April, Accra, Ghana. TRADE COMMODITIES AND DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON A DEVELOPMENT AGENDA IN COMMODITIES TRADE. This South Centre Side event, meant to correspond to the UNCTAD XII, will attempt to highlight the importance of taking action to address the problems linked to commodity dependence in developing countries, especially…
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Resources
EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS AND DEVELOPMENT IN LDCs: POLICIES, ISSUES, AND PRIORITIES FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FOR ACTION DURING AND BEYOND UNCTAD XII. UNCTAD, 1 April 2008. For several decades, the least developed countries (LDCs) have been pursuing wide-ranging economic policies and strategies, mainly in the context of structural adjustment programmes and, more recently, Poverty Reduction Strategy…