-
Services Week Update: Emergency Safeguards & Domestic Regulation
Despite the approaching 15 March 2002 deadline (see BRIDGES Weekly, 29 November 2001) for a decision on whether to establish an emergency safeguard (ESM), talks have stalled within the WTO Working Party on GATS Rules (WPGR) regarding this issue. On another GATS subsidiary body front, Members discussed the applicability of the ‘necessity test’ provision in…
-
News From The Regions: Asia-Pacific
China Endorses GMO Deal with US In a letter dated 26 November, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture formally endorsed a deal reached in October with the US regarding China’s regulations on imports of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). The interim deal (see BRIDGES Weekly, 30 October 2001)…
-
News From The Regions: East & West Africa
East African Community leaders push Customs Union On 30 November in Arusha, Tanzania, the presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania instructed the Council of Ministers of the East African Community (EAC) to finalise the draft protocol on the establishment of the East African Customs Union. In a joint statement, the three leaders — Kenya’s Daniel arap Moi,…
-
Update On Fisheries
New Study Reveals Significant Decline In Fish Catches Contrary to statistics released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a new study, published in the 29 November edition of the science journal Nature, shows that fish catches have actually been declining since the late ’80s rather than increasing as previously thought. At the current rate,…
- In Brief
-
EC Says Mixed Result For Developing Countries At Doha
On 29 November, Director General of the EC Commission Directorate for Trade, Peter Carl, briefed civil society and business representatives on the outcome of the WTO Doha negotiations held last month in Qatar. Carl said that market access was the biggest interest area for developing countries in Doha, followed distantly by technical assistance and WTO…
- WTO in Brief
-
WTO In Brief
‘Agriculture Week’ Starts With Environment And Trade Preferences Meeting for this year’s last ‘agriculture week’ consisting of a 3-5 December informal special (negotiating) session of the Committee on Agriculture, a regular session on 6 December, as well as a 7 December formal special session, WTO Members discussed on Monday the relationship between environment and both…
- Events
-
Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar.. Coming Up This Week 1-4 December, Pretoria, South Africa: FAO EXPERT CONSULTATION ON TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND TRANSFER. For further information visit the FAO calendar at http:// www.fao.org/events/index.asp. 4-5 December, Calcutta, India: CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP: MEETING THE…
- Resources
-
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). WORLD MARKETS FOR ORGANIC FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Published…