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WTO: BRIEF GC MEETING APPROVES 2005 MINISTERIAL IN HONG KONG
The WTO General Council (GC) met on 21 October for the first time following the collapse of trade talks at the fifth ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, in September. The inconspicuous meeting lasted for only one hour, and did not provide any political signals of where the talks were…
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DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE DISCUSS TA, COMMODITIES, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The forty-sixth session of the WTO Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) met on 16 October and 23 October to discuss, inter alia, the 2004 technical assistance (TA) plan, the proposal from a group of East African countries on the declining prices of primary commodities, and the mandate from…
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APEC SUMMIT CALLS FOR RESTART OF WTO TALKS; SEES FLURRY OF BILATERAL TRADE DEALS
On 20-21 October, leaders from a group of 21 Pacific Rim nations met in Bangkok for the fifteenth Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit, the first major economic gathering since the breakdown of global trade talks in Cancun, Mexico in September. Although APEC has no formal relationship with the…
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Islamic States Consider Creating Free Trade Area
NEW REPORTS ON GM CONTAMINATION A new report published by the UK government on 16 October shows that conventional varieties of oilseed rape, maize and sugar beet are contaminated with GM straits in a much faster way than previously expected. The report shows that bees can pollinate conventional oilseed rape with pollen from GM…
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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. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Coming Up: 23 - 29 October 22-23 October, Washington DC: FOREST INVESTMENT FORUM. Organised by the World Bank (IBRD), International…
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Resources
THE LOST SEED - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE AT THE WTO. By Eduardo Gudynas and Gerardo Evia (CLAES, October 2003). This publication is a collection of selected articles and reports on the agriculture and food sector in Latin America in Spanish. It includes daily reports by the authors written during the Cancun ministerial meeting, plus diagrams…