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Trade, Civil Society Decision-Makers Convene At WTO Symposium
>From 29 April to 1 May, close to 700 participants from governments, parliaments, civil society, academia and the media met for a public symposium organised by the WTO Secretariat on "The Doha Development Agenda and Beyond". According to various sources, non-governmental organisation (NGO) participants generally welcomed the symposium…
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Observership, Market Access Stall At TNC
WTO Members meeting at a 24 April session of the WTO’s Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) were unable to solve an impasse over the thorny question of who can qualify as an observer in the WTO’s negotiating bodies. Ongoing political disagreements centre around whether or not the Arab League…
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Committee On Trade And Development Meets With Ambitious Agenda
Convening near the end of ‘Geneva Week’ — whereby Members and observers without permanent missions in Geneva attend a series of WTO meetings (see related WTO In Brief, this issue) — the WTO Committee on Trade and Development met for its second session of the year on 25…
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Members Focus On Technical Assistance At WTO Competition Policy Talks
At the first substantive post-Doha session of the WTO’s Working Group on the Interaction Between Trade and Competition Policy on 23-24 April, delegates focused primarily on technical assistance and capacity building issues. According to trade sources, some Members emphasised the importance of knowing what form such assistance might take as well as a need to…
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EU And Chile Clinch Free Trade Deal
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FIGURES IN NGO SEMINAR ON TRADE, INVESTMENT AND COMPETITION A two-day seminar on Trade, Investment and Competition, organised by the Trade Information Project, a joint effort of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) and the Centre for International Environmental…
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In Brief
NATIVE CANADIAN GROUP TO BE HEARD IN LUMBER DISPUTE A WTO panel currently considering a Canadian complaint against US duties on softwood lumber agreed on 30 April to receive a submission campaigning for recognition of land rights by the Interior Alliance, a grouping of Canadian First Nations peoples. "This…
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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: 2-8 May 2 May, Washington, DC: EU-US SUMMIT. The principal European participants meeting with President Bush will be Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, representing the EU Council presidency, and Commission President Romano Prodi. Trade…
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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). TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2002. By the United…