Ireland donated EUR 125,000 to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and EUR 330,000 to the Internship Programme for the Missions of Selected WTO Members in Geneva. This new donation brings Ireland’s overall contribution to WTO trust funds up to EUR 8.4 (...)
Germany has donated EUR 1 million to the WTO Global Trust Fund for 2012. This new donation brings Germany’s overall contribution to WTO trust funds to EUR 16.5 million.
The seventh WTO-OECD-UNCTAD report for the G-20 on trade and investment restrictions reveals that government-imposed trade and investment restrictions have not slowed and that the pace of removing such obstacles has decelerated. The accumulation of such restraints means that nearly 3% of global (...)
يكصد و يكمين اجلاس كنفرانس بينالمللي كار با حضور بيش از 5000 نفر از 185 كشور عضو سازمان بينالمللي كار (س.ب.ك) روز چهارشنبه 10 خرداد ماه 1391 كار خود را با سخنان خوان سوماويا مديركل س.ب.ك آعاز كرد. وي در سخنان خود از بحران اشتغال جوانان، كفهاي حمايت اجتماعي، وضعيت كارگران در سرزمينهاي اشغالي عربي، و بحران منطقهي يورو و حقوق كار (...)
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the Thai Chamber of Commerce in Bangkok on 30 May 2012, said: “Protectionism is like cholesterol: the slow accumulation of trade restrictive measures since 2008 — now covering almost 3% of world merchandise trade, and almost 4% of G20 trade — can lead (...)
Austria donated EUR 200,000 (CHF 240,000) to the Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) for 2012. With this last donation, Austria’s total contribution to the DDAGTF has reached EUR 2.66 million (CHF 3.2 million).
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his speech at the China International Fair on Trade in Services in Beijing on 28 May 2012, said that “China, with its desire to move up the value chain, with its plans to rebalance its economy, is uniquely placed to drive an offensive agenda to open trade in (...)
On 25 May 2012, the EU requested consultations with Argentina under the dispute settlement system concerning the latter’s import restrictive measures. Further information will be available within the next few days in doc WT/DS438/1.
On 25 May 2012, China requested consultations with the United States under the dispute settlement system concerning countervailing duty measures. Further information will be available within the next few days in document WT/DS437/1.