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Countries Struggle Over How To Negotiate WTO Doha Mandate
WTO Members have been meeting frequently over the past week in informal bilateral and plurilateral sessions in an attempt to find common ground on how trade negotiations launched in Doha, Qatar in November 2001 should be structured. The specifics of how negotiating sessions will take place are to be addressed formally on 28 January at…
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News From The Regions: Africa
US preferential tariffs renewed In light of "continued progress towards a market-based economy in the region," the US on 31 December announced a 12-month continuation of preferential tariff rates for goods from 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The status was granted under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which…
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News From The Regions: Japan, Se Asia & S. Asia
Japan signs its first FTA ever; others in the pipeline The Prime Ministers of Japan and Singapore on 13 January signed an historic bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) three months after the two countries reached a basic accord on its framework. The accord is called the ‘Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement…
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Lord Peter Melchett
Lord Peter Melchett, former executive director of Greenpeace UK, will be joining a public relations firm — Burson-Marsteller — which includes controversial genetically modified foods giant Monsanto Co. among its clients. Melchett was arrested for destroying genetically modified crops in 1999, though he and 28 other protesters were…
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Anil Agarwal
On 2 January, Anil Agarwal, 54, Chairperson of the New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment, and Editor of Down To Earth, India’s premier science and environment magazine, passed away after a prolonged illness. Agarwal began his journalistic career as a science correspondent for the Hindustan Times in 1973. He has written for several…
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In Brief
CANADA BANS BULK WATER EXPORTS FROM BOUNDARY WATERS As one of its final moves of 2001, the Canadian government on 20 December enacted legislation amending the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act (IBWTA) that prohibits the bulk removal of water from Canadian boundary waters. The legislation also sets in place a licensing regime for water projects on…
- WTO in Brief
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WTO In Brief
ACP OPENS NEW GENEVA OFFICE ON WTO NEGOTIATIONS On 16 January, a new office to improve the representation of the interests of the 77 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries at the WTO was opened in Geneva, Switzerland. The office, financed by an EU grant of €1.45 million, will help ACP countries "co-ordinate their views…
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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 14-27 January, New York, US: 4TH SESSION OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF THE UN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT. Convening for the Committee’s final meeting, delegates will negotiate over two…
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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 Matteo Rizzolli, mrizzolli@ictsd.ch). STATE OF THE WORLD 2002: THE ROAD TO…