6th Ministerial, Hong Kong 2005

New Report Projects Shrinking Market For U.S. Imports; Implications “Enormous” for G-8 Talks, WTO, Developing Countries

10 July, 2006
Center for Economic and Policy Research
A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that U.S. imports, measured in non-dollar currencies, are projected to decline over the next decade.

WTO MEMBERS GIVE LAMY A MANDATE TO BRIDGE THE GAPS: how much longer will members insist the Doha Agenda can deliver on development?

9 July, 2006
By Carin Smaller, TIP/IATP
Contents: The Lamy challenge; Changing the rules of the game; The truth about Doha; Important dates to remember; Documents

EU must not turn Brazil into the world's tires dump

4 July, 2006
FBOMS, REBRIP, Greenpeace Brazil, WWF Brazil
Brazil may become the tires dump for the developed world, if WTO will accept the complaint introduced by the European Union against Brazil

Developing countries state their concerns at end of WTO meeting

4 July, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
Ministers of developing countries expressed their concerns about the Ministerial meeting and the current state of play of the Doha negotiations as

As talks fail, Lamy given new role

4 July, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
The Doha negotiations reached crisis point when the WTO Ministerial meetings of last weekend in Geneva fell apart.

Engineered crisis? Members decided my new role, says Lamy

4 July, 2006
By Kanaga Raja, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
At a media briefing after the WTO meeting closed on 1 July, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy admitted: ''We are in a crisis.'

Failure Of Geneva Talks Makes Conclusion Later This Year Unlikely

30 June, 2006
Inside US Trade
This weekend

WTO must not force bad trade deal on poor

30 June, 2006
War on Want
News that the major powers are trying to bypass negotiations in order to force through a trade deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has met with an angry response from trade justice campaigners.

WTO Talks Collapse ? Good News for the Developing World

30 June, 2006
Focus on the Global South
The illegitimate Mini Ministerial which the WTO

Geneva Talks Could Break Early As U.S. Shows No Flexibility

29 June, 2006
Inside US Trade
Within a day of starting their negotiations, ministers today (June 30) raised significant doubts about how much progress they could make on developing modalities for agriculture and non-agricultural market access this week.

Sticking to Positions

29 June, 2006
Washington Trade Daily
Doha Development Agenda key players the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India and the Group-of-10 defensive coalition stuck tight to their positions yesterday on Doha Development Agenda agriculture and nonagricultural market access

Mr. Lamy’s Failed ‘20-20-20' Formula

29 June, 2006
Washington Trade Daily
World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy

As Ministerial starts, the question is “Who will move first?”

29 June, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
As various WTO groupings held their own meetings on Thursday to plan ahead of the mini-Ministerial Green Room the next day, and as some Ministers gave their previews to the media, the question being asked by delegates and observers alike is “Who will move first, or will no one move at all?”

A Split EU

29 June, 2006
Washington Trade Daily
France, Ireland, Italy and Portugal yesterday strongly opposed any move by the European Union

No Breakthroughs On Doha, But U.S. Officials Still Hopeful

29 June, 2006
By Jerry Hagstrom, National Journal's CongressDailyAM
U.S. trade negotiators appear to have made no breakthroughs in the bilateral meetings leading up to the formal World Trade Organization's Doha round negotiating sessions scheduled to begin today in Geneva