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Agriculture Negotiations Suspended Over AVEs - Again
On 19 April, New Zealand’s WTO Ambassador Tim Groser, who chairs the WTO agriculture negotiations, suspended a meeting of the Committee on Agriculture (CoA) special (negotiating) session due to Members’ differences over the process for converting ’specific’ agricultural tariffs based on quantities imported into ‘ad valorem’ equivalents (AVEs), i.e., tariffs based…
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Argentina, Brazil, India Put Forward Proposal On NAMA
Argentina, Brazil, and India have put forward a long-awaited proposal (TN/MA/W/54) for liberalising trade in non-agricultural products in the ongoing round of WTO talks, calling on Members to entrench favourable treatment for developing countries in both the structure and implementation of the formula for cutting tariffs. Describing the proposal as…
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DG Race: Seixas Out, Lamy 'Enjoyed Highest Level Of Support'
Brazilian WTO Ambassador Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa has become the first candidate to withdraw from the race to succeed Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi. WTO General Council Chair Ambassador Amina Chawahir Mohamed of Kenya reported on the first round of the selection process she is leading to an informal 15…
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Rules: Members Discuss Anti-Dumping, Fisheries Subsidies
Fisheries subsidies and anti-dumping remained on the agenda as the Negotiating Group on Rules meeting concluded on 15 April. After debating a Brazilian paper on fisheries-related special and differential treatment (S&D) for developing countries (see BRIDGES Weekly, 13 April 2005), Members discussed an EU paper on mechanisms for enforcing WTO…
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EU, US Battle Over Illegal GM Corn Finds Truce
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION CALLS ON STATES TO USE TRIPS FLEXIBILITIES The UN Commission on Human Rights has called on its 53 members to consider taking full advantage of the flexibilities included in the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Meeting in Geneva for its sixty-first…
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WTO In Brief
‘PATCHWORK’ EXPECTED FOR JULY ‘APPROXIMATIONS,’ SENIOR OFFICIALS SAY Senior trade officials from 31 influential WTO Member countries have begun to converge in their views on feasible progress in the ongoing trade talks, according to Canadian WTO Ambassador Don Stephenson, who hosted the 18-19 April meeting in Geneva. Trade news sources report that Stephenson said the end-July…
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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. If you would like to submit an event, please email us. ICTSD Event 21 April, Geneva, Switzerland: DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS: INCORPORATING THE CBD PRINCIPLES IN THE TRIPS AGREEMENT ON THE ROAD TO HONG KONG. This dialogue is organised by ICTSD,…
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Resources
OCCASIONAL PAPER NO.13: GATS CONDITIONS TO ACHIEVE DEVELOPING COUNTRY POLICY OBJECTIVES, South Centre, March 2005. General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Article XIX: 2 allows developing countries and LDCs to attach conditions to liberalisation commitments to achieve the objectives of GATS Article IV, which aim to increase the participation of such countries in world…