On 4 April 2012, Honduras requested consultations with Australia under the dispute settlement system concerning the latter’s certain measures concerning trademark and other plain packaging requirements applicable to tobacco products and (...)
The Appellate Body, on 4 April 2012, issued its report in the case “United States — Measures Affecting the Production and Sale of Clove Cigarettes” (WT/DS406/AB/R).
پنجمين نشست مجمع عمومي اتحاديه كنفدراسيون بخش خصوصي منطقهي درياي مازندران و سياه روز سهشنبه 23 اسفند ماه 1390 در استانبول، تركيه برگذار شد. در اين مجمع، جناب آقاي مهندس محمد عطارديان دبيركل كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرمايي ايران (كعاصكا) و عضو جانشين هيأت مديره سازمان بينالمللي كار و سركار خانم شهره تصديقي مشاور امور بينالملل (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in receiving an honorary doctorate degree from the Dhaka University in Bangladesh on 31 March 2012, said that “trade—both imports and exports—in least developed countries can make a vital contribution to development and to poverty reduction”. He encouraged Bangladesh (...)
The Committee on Government Procurement adopted on 30 March 2012 the revised Government Procurement Agreement after a final review required by the Ministerial Conference decision in December last year. The revised Agreement will now go to the respective parliaments for (...)
On 30 March 2012, the US submitted a panel request under DSU Article 21.5 to review the EU implementation measures in the Airbus case (DS316). The US also requested that a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body be held on 13 April to consider its panel (...)
At the Council for Trade in Goods meeting on 30 March 2012, 14 members jointly expressed their deepening concern about Argentina’s import-licensing measures. Argentina maintained these measures were compatible with the WTO, and rejected the joint statement as (...)
The Committee of Participants in the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products has confirmed that Colombia is joining this WTO plurilateral agreement that aims to liberalize trade in this important and growing sector of the (...)
A new concern about Indonesia closing its largest port to horticultural imports was among issues raised when WTO members met as the WTO committee dealing with food safety and animal and plant health on 27-28 March 2012.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the WTO Seminar on Exchange Rates and Trade on 27 March 2012, said that “the international community needs to make headway on the issue of reform of the international monetary system. Unilateral attempts to change or retain the status quo will not (...)