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DG Candidates Meet With General Council
The race to replace Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General (DG) of the WTO officially got underway on 26 January, as the four candidates went before a formal meeting of the WTO General Council to promote their respective cases for the job. Former Uruguayan WTO Ambassador Carlos Perez del Castillo; Mauritian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Jaya Krishna…
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DG Candidates Follow Up GC Hearing With Civil Society Meeting
In a meeting that marked a new step in the relationship between civil society and the WTO, candidates for the position of WTO Director-General (DG) attended a public hearing in Geneva on 26 January to respond to questions sent in from around the world regarding their vision for international trade. Three of the four candidates…
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Members, Civil Society React To Proposals For WTO Reform
Many WTO Member governments would not object to some informal discussions on the recommendations of the report on WTO reform released last week by WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi’s ‘Consultative Board,’ so long as they do not come at the expense of work for the Doha Round negotiations. At an informal heads-of-delegation meeting on 25 January,…
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Post-Quota Textile Trade Starts To Take Shape
In response to the elimination of quotas on textile and clothing at the end of 2004, Turkey and Argentina moved this month to protect domestic textile manufacturers by imposing limits on Chinese textile imports. US textile importers managed to receive a court injunction against the imposition of similar measures by the US government. Meanwhile, the…
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WTO Head Urges Africa To Strengthen Participation In Trade Talks ST-Quota Textile Trade Starts To Take Shape
Addressing a meeting of African and Nordic trade ministers in Tanzania on 20 January, WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi urged African countries to take a long-term view in the ongoing negotiations on agriculture. He pointed out that liberalisation of agricultural trade heralded potentially big gains for the continent. Supachai further noted that gains in agriculture within…
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Indigenous Communities' Rights To Potato Strains Recognised
EU ADVISES TANZANIA TO RESOLVE OVERLAPPING CUSTOMS UNION MEMBERSHIP During his visit to Tanzania on 20 January 2004, senior European Union trade official Karl Falkenberg advised Tanzania, currently a member of both the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and the East African Customs Union (EACU), to stick to just one customs union in order to maximise…
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Four WTO Mini-Ministerials Planned For 2005
"FRIENDS" GROUP MEETS ON ANTI-DUMPING TO PREPARE FOR RULES TALKS A group of countries sharing a common interest in tightening rules governing anti-dumping investigations and measures met in Geneva from 18-20 January to strategise ahead of negotiations during the upcoming year. The group agreed to keep anti-dumping high on the agenda, describing it as a…
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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. Coming Up: 27 January - 2 February 24 January - 4 March: WTO E-TRAINING COURSE FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. The WTO e-training program is offering a six-week online course…
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Resources
APPELLATE BODY ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2004. WTO, January 2005. The Appellate Body Annual Report for 2004 includes appeals, amendments to the working procedure and appellate body reports. There were five appeals filed in 2004, including the EC - Tariff Preferences, the Canada - Wheat Exports and Grain Imports and the US -Softwood Lumber V appeals.…