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WTO Agriculture Week: No Negotiating Breakthrough Expected
Despite a new negotiations format focusing on informal meetings, a 24 March stocktaking session on the agriculture negotiations failed to indicate any significant advances. Members — meeting in Geneva for the first special (negotiating) session of the WTO Committee on Agriculture (CoA) this year — adjourned their bilateral and plurilateral consultations for a brief plenary…
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SPS Committee Moves On Equivalence, S&D Debate To Continue
The WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), meeting from 17-18 March in Geneva, adopted the last of three clarifications of an October 2001 Decision on Equivalence (G/SPS/19, available at http://docsonline.wto.org), paving the way for the Decision’s implementation. However, Members made only limited progress on the issue of special & differential treatment (S&D) for…
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Consultations Ongoing On Norwegian Generics Exports Law
SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS SAY WTO OFFERS "DISAPPOINTING" From the 22-23 March, a delegation of global service industry associations met with officials and representatives from the WTO to discuss the ongoing service negotiations, highlighting the urgent need for more progress. "WTO Members must summon the political will necessary to make the difficult decisions, not least on agriculture…
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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: 25-31 March 25 March, Brussels, Belgium: SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENT - IMPROVING THE METHODOLOGY. Since 1999, DG Trade of the European Commission has been…
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Resources
BANANA WARS - THE PRICE OF FREE TRADE: A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE. By Gordon Myers (Zed Books, 2004). Banana Wars tells how the US government, answering the grievances of a single American corporation, forced the WTO to nullify a European Community commitment to protect small Caribbean banana growers. Dominated by a free trade ideology, the international…