The Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, on 26-27 October 2011, focused on encouraging more WTO members to notify their subsidy programmes, and on improving the timeliness and completeness of notifications. It decided to extend the transition period for the elimination of export (...)
The WTO’s report on G-20 trade measures, issued on 26 October 2011, said that “disappointingly weak growth in some G-20 countries and continuing macroeconomic imbalances globally are testing the political resolve of many governments to abide by the G-20 commitment to resist protectionism”. It (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy and World Bank President Robert Zoellick welcomed technical changes to the regulatory regime of trade finance announced today (25 October 2011) by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. They said that “this is a useful step that will help promote trade with low (...)
At its meeting on 25 October 2011, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) established a panel to review US anti-dumping measures imposed on Chinese shrimps and diamond sawblades.
The European Union, at the meeting of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) Committee on 24 October 2011, indicated it will refocus its efforts on a sectoral agreement on information technology products from the Doha Round to the ITA Committee. Russia announced its plans to join the (...)
WTO members assessed the system for helping poorer countries import cheaper medicines, debated whether an Australian bill on plain packaging for cigarettes will hurt poor farmers, and scrutinized a new agreement among a group of countries on stronger intellectual property enforcement, when they (...)
برگردان بخش سوم سندي با عنوان «اولويتهاي كسب و كار» كه سازمان بينالمللي كارفرمايان و «كميتهي مشورتي كسب و كار و صنعت» وابسته به «سازمان همكاري اقتصادي و توسعه» با همكاري يكديگر تهيه كرده و در اختيار وزيران كار و اشتغال كشورهاي گروه 20 قرار دادهاند، در ادامه تقديم علاقمندان ميشود. خاطر نشان ميكند، برگردان بخش اول اين سند در (...)
Germany has offered EUR 150,000 (approximately CHF 186,500) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF). Germany’s overall contribution to WTO trust funds has now reached CHF18.6 million (about EUR 15 million).
Ambassadors from WTO member governments confirmed on 21 October 2011 that the upcoming ministerial conference should set a deadlock-breaking path for the Doha Round perhaps by starting on issues where an early agreement might be (...)
The Chair, Ambr Yonov Frederick Agah, at an informal General Council meeting on 21 October 2011, stressed “a clear need to advance rapidly” in preparations for the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference. He said that “we all want a Conference which, despite the current problems in the Round, will help (...)