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Agriculture Negotiations: Paris Meet Yields No Concrete Results
Three days of high-level meetings in Paris between ministers and senior trade officials from key WTO Members did not unblock the Doha Round agriculture talks, which are holding up the negotiations as a whole. Nevertheless, participants said they felt the talks had been useful and clarified the stances of the major players. EU Trade Commissioner Peter…
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NAMA: Members Still Divided On Formula, Flexibilities
Several WTO Members appear to be waiting to see progress in the contentious farm trade negotiations before committing themselves to any particular method for cutting tariffs on industrial goods, say trade negotiators. Formal and informal meetings of the Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) on 21-22 September indicated that Members remained broadly divided on the…
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World Bank, IMF Strike Debt Deal, Shift Sights To WTO
After striking an agreement to cancel USD 55 billion in debt owed to them by some of the world’s poorest countries, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) have turned their focus to the WTO’s stalled Doha Round negotiations. World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz exhorted WTO Members to match this consensus on debt with…
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Trade Facilitation: Members Clarify Proposals, Look Towards Agreed Text
The 19-20 September meeting of the Negotiating Group on Trade Facilitation saw four new proposals on issues including anti-corruption, technical assistance, and trade embargoes. Members also discussed a Secretariat document (TN/TF/W43/Rev.2) that consolidates into a single text existing proposals on the broad mandate of the trade facilitation negotiations: the clarification and improvement of General…
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In Brief
DISAGREEMENT OVER DATA PROTECTION HOLDING UP ANDEAN-US FTA Ecuador’s opposition to US demands on access to test data for clinical drug trials has emerged as a primary obstacle in the ongoing free trade agreement (FTA) talks between the US and a group of three Andean countries. Trade officials from the US, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru met…
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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. Coming Up: 29 September - 5 October 29 September, Geneva, Switzerland: FORUM ON FOREST CERTIFICATION - DO GOVERNMENTS HAVE A…
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Resources
TRADE FLOWS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TEXTILES AND CLOTHING IN THE ASIA PACIFIC: TRACKING REPORT. By the United Nations Development Programme Regional Centre in Colombo (UNDP RCC), September 2005. This publication is part of a UNDP RCC initiative to assess the human development impact of the elimination of textiles and clothing trade quotas in twelve…