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Kirk’s Geneva Visit Signals US Engagement on Doha
The United States government is re-engaging in the Doha Round trade talks at the WTO, a move that has been warmly received by Geneva-based trade negotiators. But it remains to be seen whether the US and its trading partners will be able to overcome the significant substantive differences that have thus far prevented the negotiations…
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EU, US Strike Provisional Deal to End 13-Year-Old Beef Dispute
Trade officials from the US and the EU arrived at a provisional agreement last week that could mark the beginning of the end of a trade dispute over hormone-treated beef that dates back to 1996. The deal, which was announced on 6 May, would allow the EU to maintain its ban on imports of hormone-treated…
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Latin American Countries Commit US$ 7 billion for ‘Bank of the South’
Trade ministers from seven Latin American countries meeting in Buenos Aires last week agreed on a charter for a Bank of the South (Banco del Sur), an institution to fund infrastructure projects and development in the region. Under the proposed charter, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela would each become founding members of the…
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EU, China Look to Strengthen Economic Cooperation
Senior officials from the EU and China met in Brussels last week to discuss ways that the two world powers can boost trade and strengthen economic cooperation amid the global downturn. “Trade and investment will lead us out of the current crisis,” EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton told journalists on the second day of the talks,…
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Anti-Dumping Activity on the Increase, WTO Says
The number of times that WTO Members launched new investigations into unfairly priced, or ‘dumped’, imports jumped 17 percent in the second half of last year, the WTO reported last week, while the number of new anti-dumping tariffs that Member governments applied increased by 45 percent. ‘Dumping,’ in trade parlance, refers to the practice of exporting…
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Events
16 May, Geneva, Switzerland. SEMINAR ON THE GLOBAL LAND GRAB AND HUMAN RIGHTS. The race to secure large areas of agricultural land for off-shore food production is widely reported to be accelerating, with governments, companies and private investors negotiating new deals every week. While many of these agreements are yet to be finalised, they are…
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Resources
NAVIGATING OUT OF THE CRISIS: A TRADE-LED RECOVERY - A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TRADE POLICYMAKERS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, April 2009. The purpose of this guide is to sensitise policymakers to various trade, investment and trade facilitation policy tools that could be used…