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Mexico Confirmed For Next Ministerial; WTO Adopts Expanded Technical Assistance Mandate
Mexico Confirmed For Next Ministerial; WTO Adopts Expanded Technical Assistance Mandate At a 19-20 December meeting of the WTO General Council, Members formally accepted Mexico’s offer to host the fifth WTO Ministerial Conference in 2003, expected to take place in the middle of that year. Members also adopted the organisation’s most ambitious budget ever, signing off…
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Dispute Settlement Update: Bananas; US-EC Steel
Bananas Putting the final nail in the coffin of the almost decade-old dispute between the EC on the one hand and the US and Ecuador on the other, EU agriculture ministers on 19 December adopted regulations for the EC’s new banana-import regime. EC Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said on Wednesday that, "this WTO-compatible system the Council…
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Moore Shuffles WTO Secretariat Deck
On 14 December, WTO Director-General Mike Moore announced his plan to reorganise the WTO Secretariat in order to prepare for the challenge of meeting the mandate from Doha and in general to improve the functioning of the Secretariat. These changes are effective immediately and "expert advice" will be sought in March 2002 to review the…
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Note To Subscribers
This is the last issue of ICTSD’s BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest for 2001. The first issue of 2002 — Vol. 6, No. 1 — will be published on 15 January. The editorial staff, together with the rest of the ICTSD team, would like to thank our reporting contributors and our funders for their critical…
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EU Signs Association Agreement with Algeria
Latest NAFTA Investor-State Claim Launched US-based Crompton Corp. (formerly UniRoyal Chemical) has launched the latest investor-state suit against the Canadian government under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Their case alleges that the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) contravened certain articles in NAFTA’s Chapter 11 (on investment rights and obligations)…
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UN Officials Doubt Doha's Deliverables For Developing Countries
At a 12 December panel discussion sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, UN Development Programm (UNDP) Senior Civil Society Advisor Kamal Malhotra and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Economics and Trade Unit Director Hussein Abaza both espoused a different take on the success of the so-called ‘Doha Development Agenda’ than previously put forth by…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar. Coming Up This Week 20-21 December, Dakar, Senegal: ECOWAS SUMMIT. Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States will assess progress made in the implementation of integration programmes and designate the definitive host countries for ECOWAS’ nascent parliament…
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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. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Matteo Rizzolli). 2001 HANDBOOK OF STATISTICS ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT. Published by…