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General Council Chair Outlines Road To July Agreement
On 29 April, WTO Members met for an informal Heads of Delegation meeting. The half-day meeting took stock of overall development in trade negotiations following the Cancun Ministerial in September 2003 and to date, and served to enhance transparency. In the words of India’s ambassador to the WTO, KM Chandrasekhar, "it was an exploratory meeting……
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Members Appear To Converge Around Trade Facilitation Talks
At an informal Heads of Delegation meeting on 29 April, Members reportedly began to converge around the idea of including trade facilitation as part of the Doha round of trade negotiations. According to trade sources, Members considered making a formal commitment to begin negotiations on modalities for trade facilitation as part of a negotiating framework…
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Package Deal To Salvage DSU Negotiations?
The special (negotiating) session of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) met on 30 April to consider progress in the review of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU). The meeting focused on a forthcoming package of proposals by a group of six countries to salvage the negotiations. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Norway and New Zealand are…
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Mixed Feelings On Trade As EU Enlarges
‘MICRO-MINISTERIAL’ DEBATES WAYS TO MOVE TRADE TALKS Key trade ministers met in London on 1 May to consider how to break the deadlock in trade negotiations, focusing their talks primarily on how to move in agriculture. EC Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, Kenyan Trade Minister Mukhisa Kituyi, South African Trade Minister Alec Erwin and Brazilian Foreign…
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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. ICTSD Events 19 May, Geneva, Switzerland: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND TRADE - UNTANGLING KEY ISSUES. Organised by ICTSD and the Geneva Environment Network. The roundtable will offer…
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Resources
IMPLICATIONS OF EU ENLARGEMENT FOR THE ACP - A DISCUSSION PAPER. By the European Research Office (May 2004). Ten new countries are about to join the EU, increasing the total membership to 25. This process of EU enlargement will affect third countries, and in particular ACP countries, in a number of ways, through changes in…