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Full Steam Ahead For Doha As Prep Talks Refine Ministerial Text
Following renewed commitments by the US over the weekend, the WTO’s Fourth Ministerial Conference looks set to take place as scheduled in Doha, Qatar on 9-13 November. Meantime, talks over how environment should be dealt with in the Ministerial Declaration have isolated European Members just as a second draft Ministerial text is in the making. Doha…
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Anthrax Scare Draws New Focus On IPRs & Access To Medicines
The link between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and access to essential medicines continues to attract widespread public attention, sparked most recently by Canada’s (subsequently revoked) decision last week to override a patent on the antibiotic drug called Cipro used to treat anthrax in order to purchase a locally produced generic version of the drug. Meantime, WTO…
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WTO Heads Of Delegations Meet On Developing Country Concerns
On Friday 19 October, WTO Members convened for an informal Heads of Delegations (HOD) meeting to discuss ‘further points of consideration’ for the draft Ministerial Declaration (see BRIDGES Weekly, 2 October 2001). Specifically, this meeting touched on paragraphs 33 through 35 of the draft text - dealing with technical cooperation and capacity building, Least- Developed…
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Developing Countries Scrutinised At Meeting on Ozone Depleting Substances
The 13th Meeting of the Parties (MOP-13) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer on 16 – 19 October convened in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Participants from 108 countries attended the meeting, including government officials, UN agencies and international and non-governmental organisations (for details on MOP-12, see BRIDGES Weekly, 19 December 2000…
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In Brief
EC-PAKISTAN SIGN UNDERSTANDING ON TEXILE TRADE. EC Commission and Pakistani negotiators on 15 October concluded a Memorandum of Understanding that aims to mutually increase market access to the other party’s textile and clothing exports. According to the proposed package, Pakistan would be eligible for the new EC Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for countries combating…
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WTO In Brief
US WINS FINAL RULING IN SHRIMP-TURTLE DISPUTE. As the final ruling in the ongoing Shrimp-turtle case, the WTO Appellate Body (AB) on 22 October upheld a compliance panel’s 15 June 2001 findings, saying that the revised US measures banning shrimp imports from Malaysia are “justified under Article XX of the GATT 1994 as long as…
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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.Coming Up This Week 22-26 October, Bonn, Germany: FIRST SESSION OF THE AD HOC OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP ON ACCESS AND BENEFIT-SHARING. For further information contact: CBD Secretariat, Montreal, Canada; tel: (1 514) 288-2220; fax: 288-6588;…
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Resources
If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to Hugo Cameron, hcameron@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Marc Galvin, mgalvin@ictsd.ch). NO INVESTMENT AGREEMENT WITHIN THE WTO: RE-DIRECTING INVESTMENT…