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Agriculture Negotiations Still Stalling
Little headway was made in bringing various sides together at a 22-24 January special (negotiating) session of the WTO Committee on Agriculture (CoA). The main goal of the special session was to "build bridges" to narrow the many wide gaps prevailing between Members’ negotiating stances. In his concluding remarks, Chair Stuart Harbinson was said to…
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Informal TRIPS Council Reconvenes On Drugs Issue
The Council for Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) convened for a first informal meeting of the year on 28 January, to continue discussions on how to deal with paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health. Members discussed a proposal put forward by the EC earlier this year…
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Cancun Bulletin: Logistical Update, Civil Society Mobilisation
This is the first in a series of occasional updates that aim to provide information of use to those individuals and organisations who plan on attending the WTO’s fifth Ministerial Conference in September. Date The WTO’s fifth Ministerial Conference is officially scheduled for 10- 14 September at Cancún, Mexico. Venue While a venue for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) Centre…
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Position Vacancy: Programme Officer - Trade
3D Associates, a Geneva-based NGO that works to ensure that trade rules are developed and applied in a way that is consistent with human rights and promotes sustainable development, is seeking to recruit a Programme Officer (Trade), to work on the WTO, development and human rights. The candidate should be a dynamic, creative and flexible…
- WTO in Brief
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LDC Sub-Committee: Zambia Submits Proposal On Enhancing The Role Of Trade In Development
SURPRISE MOVE BY AFRICAN, LDC GROUPS AT INFORMAL CTD MEETING The second informal meeting in a series of five of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) took place on 24 January. Delegates continued discussions on the 22 agreement-specific proposals on special and differential treatment (S&D), aiming to make the concept ‘more precise, effective and…
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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. ICTSD Events 30 January, Geneva, Switzerland: ICTSD ROUNDTABLE ON AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. This informal brainstorming session, centred around the theme “Towards Development Friendly Rules…
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Resources
IPC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE AGRICULTURAL MODALITIES FOR THE DOHA ROUND. The International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council (IPC), 21 January 2003. The IPC has been developing recommendations on continuing trade liberalisation in the Doha Round. The IPC’s recommendations on domestic support, export competition, market access and developing country concerns were discussed at the 29th…