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WTO: Green Room Highlights Limited Progress In Trade Talks
Carlos Perez del Castillo, Chair of the WTO General Council (GC), held a ‘green room’ meeting among heads of delegation on 18 November to take stock of talks seeking to revive the current round of trade negotiations. According to Chair Perez del Castillo, Members had been showing their commitment to the process, and he said…
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AG Talks: GC Chair Reports Progress, Key Members Sceptical
Carlos Perez del Castillo, Chair of the WTO General Council, reported to Members at an informal ‘green room’ meeting at the heads of delegation level on 18 November on progress made in the first round of post-Cancun consultations on agriculture (also see related story, this issue). A week earlier, on 13 November, a group of…
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Miami FTAA Talks Off To Lukewarm Start
Trade negotiators from the Americas are currently gathered in Miami in preparation for the eighth Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial meeting from 20-21 November. The FTAA Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) has been meeting since 15 November, preparing a draft Ministerial Declaration, and an array of related activities are being organised by civil…
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Civil Society Groups Outline Vision, Concerns for UNCTAD XI
On 17 November, a group of civil society organisations presented a statement to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) preparatory committee for the UNCTAD XI summit that raised issues identified at a civil society meeting in mid-October. The statement supported the "invaluable work" of UNCTAD and called on governments to ensure that the…
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In Brief
METHYL BROMIDE HALTS MOMENTUM AT OZONE CONFERENCE The fifteenth meeting of the parties (MOP-15) to the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer was held from 10-14 November in Nairobi, Kenya. Items on the agenda included various issues relating to "critical use exemptions" of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) from control measures. The MOP is…
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HAITI Trade Policy Review Highlights Need For Socio-Political Stability
The WTO completed its first Trade Policy Review (TPR) of Haiti on 6 November 2003. Haiti is one of the most open economies in the Western Hemisphere due to reforms undertaken since 1986. Despite its liberal economy, Haiti continues to be the poorest country and the only Least Developed Country (LDC) in the Western Hemisphere.…
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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. ICTSD Event 20 November, Miami, Florida, US: STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON COHERENCE BETWEEN MULTILATERAL REGIONAL AND BILATERAL PROCESSES ON INTELLECTUAL…
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Resources
ICTSD Resources FTAA DAILY UPDATES IN SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH. ICTSD, in collaboration with its partner organisations - Centro Internacional de Política Economica (CINPE) de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA), and OIKOS / Cooperação e Desenvolvimento - is producing five Daily Updates from the Eighth Ministerial Meeting…