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 (...)
The WTO Seminar on Exchange Rates and Trade — organized by the Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance – took place on 27 and 28 March 2012. The seminar examined the economics of the relationship between exchange rates and trade – especially the impact of one on the (...)
The second review of the trade policies and practices of the United Arab Emirates takes place on 27 and 29 March 2012. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of the United Arab (...)
كنوانسيون«سياست اشتغال» (شماره 122) در يازده ماده، در اجلاس سال 1964 كنفرانس بينالمللي كار (ك.ب.ك) به تصويب رسيد. كشور ايران اين كنوانسيون را در سال 1972 (1350) تصويب كرد و به آن ملحق شد و در نتيجه، نسبت به اجراي مفاد اين كنوانسيون الزاماتي دارد كه بايد رعايت كند. بخشي از گزارش كميتهي كارشناسان كاربست كنوانسيونها و توصيهنامهها كه (...)