Government programmes supporting agriculture domestically in 40 WTO members came under the spotlight in the 20 June 2012 meeting of the Agriculture Committee, as once again did Costa Rica’s continuing breach of its subsidy commitments caused by a government-guaranteed price for rice (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his speech at the Rio+20 Earth Summit on 20 June 2012, said that “we must strive to take the Multilateral Trading System forward, so it may help us place the global economy on a sustainable development (...)
يكي از مدعوان يكصد و يكمين اجلاس كنفرانس بينالمللي كار كه در خرداد ماه سال 91 در ژنو برگزار شد خانم آنگ سان سو چي رهبر ليگ ملي دموكراسي برمه بود كه در سخنان خود بر ضروت توجه به دموكراسي و حقوق بشر در جريان رشد و تأمين رفاه مردم برمه تأكيد كرد. متن كامل سخنان خانم سو چي را ميتوانيد در اينجا بخوانيد. در ادامه برگردان بيانيهاي كه (...)
At the second meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Afghanistan on 18 June 2012, members supported an early accession of Afghanistan to the WTO. They noted Afghanistan’s status as a least-developed country and said that this should be factored into the accession (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 25 June 2012, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
ظاهراً تصور ميشود كنوانسيون شماره 87 سازمان بينالمللي كار (س.ب.ك) كه در مورد اصل «آزادي انجمن» است، از «حق اعتصاب» نيز سخن گفته است. اما مرورمفاد اين كنوانسيون نشان ميدهد كه نسبت به اين موضوع ساكت است. با اين همه، كارشناسان عضو «كميتهي كارشناسان كاربست كنوانسيونها و توصيهنامههاي» س.ب.ك در گزاشهاي سالانهي خود طوري عمل (...)
On 15 June 2012, the WTO issued the dispute panel report in the case “China – Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties on Grain Oriented Flat-Rolled Electrical Steel from the United States” (WT/DS414/R).
Governments’ sensitivity about commodities can lead to policies that backfire, sometimes with disastrous results. Therefore the trading community should lobby governments to strengthen trade rules and avoid the pitfalls, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told a conference on global commodities (...)
The value of world merchandise trade was 5% higher in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011, according to WTO figures released on 8 June 2012. This modest performance follows a slowdown in trade during the second half of (...)