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CTE Tackles Hefty Doha Environment Mandate
WTO Members convened on 21 March for a regular meeting of the Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE), and on 22 March for the CTE’s first special (negotiating) session. In both meetings, delegates addressed items under the environment heading on the Doha Ministerial Declaration. Notably, the EC circulated…
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Services: Little Visible Progress As Members Reflect On Requests And Wrangle On Assessment
Finalising this month’s services cluster, Members at a 19-22 March special session of the Council for Trade in Services (CTS) met to discuss, inter alia, the assessment of trade in services and the treatment of autonomous liberalisation, as well as numerous sectoral proposals submitted for market access negotiations…
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Mixed Reaction On Trade In Financing For Development Outcome
At the conclusion of the UN’s International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, 18-22 March, heads of state and government adopted the final document, called ‘the Monterrey Consensus’, in an effort to "eradicate poverty, achieve sustained economic growth and promote sustainable development". The text highlights, inter…
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SPS Committee Resolves Implementation Issue, Discusses Biotech
The WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) at its meeting on 19-21 March adopted revised recommendations for notification procedures, thereby resolving one of the outstanding implementation issues submitted by Brazil at the last SPS Committee meeting in October 2001. In addition, several Members raised concerns regarding China’s and the EU’s biotechnology rules with…
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In Brief
UNEP WORKSHOP LINKS TRADE, ENVIRONMENT POLICY-MAKERS ON WTO-MEA NEGOTIATIONS The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the WTO, convened a workshop on 19-20 March on Capacity Building on Environment, Trade and Development. The workshop aimed to provide a forum for identifying capacity building activities needed to assist WTO…
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WTO In Brief
CTG DISCUSSES TRADE IN HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, WAIVERS AND TEXTILES At a WTO meeting of the Council on Trade in Goods on Friday 22 March, Slovenia, backed by Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina (speaking as an observer), expressed its concern over Croatia’s ban on the transit of oil and oil products through…
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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, 26 March - 3 April 25 March - 5 April, UN Headquarters, New York, USA: WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PREPCOMM III. Acting as the second substantive preparatory session, this meeting will aim…
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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). SUBSIDIES AND THEIR POTENTIAL IMPACT ON THE MANAGEMENT…