Bridges Trade BioRes | China’s New Export System Colours 2012 Rare Earths Outlook
China last month introduced new environmental grounds as a basis for its controversial rare earths quota reductions by emphasising that export licences will only be given to companies that are in compliance with 2011 environmental protection measures. After a year of heated debate among WTO member states on the measures’ WTO compatibility, the move could [...]
Bridges Weekly | White House Push to Streamline Federal Government Sparks Trade Questions
US President Barack Obama is seeking congressional authority to reorganise the federal government, starting with various commerce and trade-related agencies, including the Office of the US Trade Representative. The 13 January announcement has observers questioning what such a move could mean for US trade policy, and whether this merger would [...]
Bridges Weekly | EU Aviation Emissions Levy Ruled Lawful by European Court as Measure Enters into Force
The ongoing battle over aviation emissions reached new heights over the past few weeks, with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on 21 December that the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is indeed valid. In response, China’s four major airlines threatened last week not to [...]
New Study | Implicaciones de los Cambios en la Política Comercial para la Competitividad de las Exportaciones de Banano Ecuatoriano al Mercado de la UE
by Giovanni Anania
El banano, durante décadas, ha sido un asunto particularmente delicado para el Ecuador en sus negociaciones de comercio internacional. El tema, en su más reciente versión, ha estado a la vanguardia de las negociaciones referentes a la suscripción de acuerdos comerciales regionales entre la Unión Europea (UE) y los países andinos, así como [...]
ICTSD Activities, News, and Analysis from the 2011 WTO Ministerial Conference
ICTSD EVENTS
Join us at our two-day Trade and Development Symposium. The event will be held in Geneva from 16-17 December in conjunction with the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference. The symposium, entitled Perspectives on the Multilateral Trading system, will feature an array of panel discussions by distinguished experts from around the world representing various institutions, countries. For more [...]