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WTO: Market Access Negotiators Stuck Over How & When To Structure Talks
Delegates meeting on 10-11 April in the WTO’s Negotiating Group on non- agricultural Market Access remained at an impasse with regards to establishing a target date to agree on modalities for trade liberalisation talks on industrial goods. Some developing countries, notably India and Kenya, are resisting efforts to…
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With Deadline Quickly Approaching, CTD Special Session Tries To Move Ahead
The WTO Committee on Trade and Development’s special session (CTD-SS) on special and differential treatment (S&D) met for the second time on 9 April, with the intention of focusing on the identification of S&D provisions that Members consider should be made mandatory, and to consider Members’ inputs on the legal and practical implications of making…
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Biodiversity Convention Expected To Adopt Guidelines On Access To Genetic Resources
The Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at their sixth Conference (COP-6) on 7-19 April in The Hague, The Netherlands, are expected to adopt the first-ever international guidelines on access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing. Discussions on the guidelines are still underway at the Conference, with some of the debates mirroring those at…
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Oxfam Report Highlights Hypocrisies In Global Trading System
On 11 April, Oxfam International (OI) released a new 272-page report, entitled "’Rigged Rules and Double Standards" as part of the launch of its new "Make Trade Fair" campaign — slated to run over the next 3 years in 144 countries. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, the report’s authors describe what they…
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EC Paper On DSU Reform Advocates Transparency
In a paper to be discussed at a 16 April special (negotiating) session of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), the EC has proposed several amendments to the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) as part of negotiations "on improvements and clarifications" of the DSU as mandated by the Doha…
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Dakar Meeting Aims To Attract Funding For NEPAD
NGOS CONDEMN G-8 FOR SUBORDINATING ENVIRONMENT TO CORPORATE INTEREST During a two day G-8 meeting last weekend hosted by Canada’s Environment Minister David Anderson in Banff, Canada, environment ministers of the eight major industrial democracies worked on identifying an agenda for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), focusing…
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Events
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: 16-25 April 2002 7-19 April, The Hague, Netherlands: THE 6TH MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (COP 6). For…
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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 ICTSDs documentation centre would also be welcome (contact Matteo Rizzolli, mrizzolli@ictsd.ch). DIRTY…