The EU announced a EUR180,000 donation to the WTO Trade Facilitation Trust Fund (Window I) for 2011. Overall, the EU’s contribution to the various WTO development trust funds has reached CHF10.9 million.
Ireland has donated EUR 455,000 (about CHF 536,000) to an internship programme for the Geneva missions of selected WTO members and the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), an initiative to help developing countries meet standards in food safety and animal and plant (...)
The WTO issued on 2 September 2011 the report of the panel that had examined a complaint by Indonesia about a US ban on clove cigarettes (dispute number DS406).
On 31 August 2011, China notified the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members, of its decision to appeal the panel reports in dispute cases DS394, DS395 and DS398, “China — Measures related to the exportation of various raw (...)
The world still lacks coherent international and domestic agricultural policies to deal with food security and the double-edged sword of higher prices, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told a congress of agricultural economists in Zurich on 30 August (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 2 September 2011, 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 (...)
The WTO, on 15 August 2011, issued the report of the panel that had examined complaints by the European Union and the United States regarding “Philippines — Taxes on distilled spirits” (DS396 and DS403).
On 11 August 2011, the European Union requested consultations with Canada under the dispute settlement system concerning the latter’s measures relating to the feed-in tariff program.
The 2011 Introduction Course on the WTO for least-developed countries (LDCs), organized by the Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation of the WTO, concluded on 29 July 2011 in Geneva.
At its meeting on 28 July 2011, the Dispute Settlement Body adopted the Panel and Appellate Body reports which examined anti-dumping measures taken by the European Union on imports of iron and steel products from China.