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Agriculture Modalities: Final Countdown
Members are meeting in a last special (negotiating) session of the WTO Committee on Agriculture (CoA) from 25 - 31 March, but little in the way of progress is being reported. The Doha work programme requires Members to establish modalities for the ongoing agriculture negotiations by 31 March 2003. These modalities are to set out…
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Rules: Members Consider Options For Addressing Fisheries Subsidies, Anti-Dumping Issues
Meeting from 19-20 March, the WTO Negotiating Group on Rules considered a new US paper on fisheries subsidies, and discussed several new submissions on anti-dumping. The US — part of the "Friends of Fish" group that also includes Argentina, Chile, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Peru — circulated a paper on fisheries subsidies prior to…
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NGOs Launch Campaign Against WTO Investment Agreement
Representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other interested parties met in Geneva from 19 to 21 March to consider investment issues. A seminar on 20 March focussed on the nature and implications of a WTO investment agreement, involving government officials both from countries favouring and opposing an investment agreement presenting their points of view, in…
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Position Vacancies
WWF European Policy Office is seeking to recruit a Fisheries Policy Officer to develop WWF’s policy and advocacy work. The successful candidate will have a relevant degree plus three years experience of working on fisheries/marine policy, preferably at the European or international level, and speak fluent English and another European language. The application deadline is…
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Financial Liberalisation: New IMF Report Advises Caution
EU AGREES ON ENERGY TAX FRAMEWORK The EU Council on Economic and Financial Affairs, meeting on 19 March in Brussels, agreed on an EU-wide energy tax framework. The decision comes six years after the idea was first introduced, and aims at implementing EU commitments to address climate change. The framework covers coal, natural gas and…
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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. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Coming Up This Week: 27 March to 2 April 24-28 March, Mexico City, Mexico: TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMERICAS 2003. This…
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Resources
BLUE GOLD: THE BATTLE AGAINST CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD’S WATER. By Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, 2002. The authors address the future ecological, economic, and political implications of the world’s current water shortage. They argue that privatisation, a fundamental strategy of the World Bank, is creating water monopolies — turning water access into an…