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Regional Trade Links Strengthen In Asia, Latin America
In the absence of substantive negotiations at the WTO (set to resume later this month), regional and bilateral meetings continue to move ahead. This past week, Asian and Latin American countries met in the Philippines to increase cooperation, Singapore and Korea showed intent to sign a free trade agreement by the end of the year…
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Lamy, Experts Take Serious Look At WTO Reform
In a 27 January address to members of the European Parliament’s ‘Kangaroo Group’, European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy expanded on previously voiced ideas around reform of the WTO. His comments came as other calls for re-working the global trade body emerged this week from both a former member of the WTO Appellate Body and a…
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Central Africa To Establish Free Trade Zone
At a recent summit in the Republic of Congo, the 11 heads of state of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) pledged to establish a free trade zone by the end of 2007. The effort is designed to bring stability to the economy of a region that has seen civil wars in 7…
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Sugar Not Only Thing “Sticky” In Australia-US Talks
US and Australian negotiators are nearing the final stages of their bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). Although initially meant to be finalised by the end of 2003, no firm deadline has been set for the talks (see BRIDGES Weekly, 11 December 2003). While some sources stated that Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile would remain in…
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Meeting Looks At Making Investment Work For Development
EU HELP DESK TO ASSIST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ACCESS EUROPEAN MARKET On 2 February, the European Commission launched a new on-line helpdesk to help developing country exporters access the EU market. Speaking at a news conference held around the launch, EC Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy urged poorer countries to tell him which subsidies they wanted the…
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Japan Likely For 2004 General Council Chair
Japan’s Ambassador to the WTO Shotaro Oshima is looking increasingly likely to become the next Chair of the WTO General Council after the US seems to have dropped its contentious proposal that the post should go to a developing country representative (see BRIDGES Weekly, 14 January 2003). While New Zealand’s Ambassador Timothy Groser 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 at: http://www.ictsd.org/cal/index.htm. If you would like to submit an event, please email events@ictsd.ch. Coming up: 5 to 11 February until 27 February 2004: EU TRADE NEWS PUBLIC CONSULTATION: IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ASSESSMENTS. All interested parties are invited to…
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Resources
NAFTA, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO. By Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin P. Gallagher, 2004. Summary: Ten years after the passage of NAFTA, it is clear that the operation was successful. Foreign investment inflows and exports have boomed. Beyond its poor performance in terms of economic growth, jobs and industrial pollution, the…