Archive

abril 12th, 2005

Trade in Cultural Goods and Services: Assessing the compatibility between WTO trade rules and UNESCO's cultural diversity Convention

11 April, 2005
On 20 April at 3:00 pm, the INCD will hold a seminar at WTO headquarters in Geneva to discuss the cultural implications of the General Agreement on Trade in Services and the potential implications for trade rules of the new UNESCO Convention.

abril 11th

Progress Made on WTO Trade Deal

10 April, 2005
World Trade Organization members are inching closer to a preliminary free trade agreement ahead of the body's December ministerial meeting in Hong Kong.

Asian eco to aim preliminary non-farm WTO accord by July

10 April, 2005
Ministers and senior trade officials from seven Asian economies have agreed that they should aim for a preliminary accord on non-farm trade liberalisation by the end of July under the World Trade Organization.

Japan hopes to break tariffs deadlock

10 April, 2005
Shoichi Nakagawa, Japan's trade minister, yesterday pledged to push ahead with informal meetings with other World Trade Organisation members ahead of the next official round of trade talks in December.

abril 9th

Farmers And Other Civil Society Groups Give A Wake Up Call To The G-20 - But Are They Listening?

8 April, 2005
Update on events surrounding the G20 Ministerial Conference (18-19 March 2005) in New Delhi.

abril 8th

Appellate Body Decision on the US-Gambling Case

7 April, 2005
On April 7, the WTO Appellate Body published its decision on the US-Gambling case. In November, 2004 a panel had largely ruled in favour of a complaint by Antigua-Barbuda that US federal and state laws prohibiting cross-border gambling violated US commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

RNM Update

7 April, 2005
Latest news from the Carribean Regional Negotrating Machinery

WTO says gambling a U.S. services commitment, but U.S. sees way out

7 April, 2005
The World Trade Organization's Appellate Body yesterday (April 7) upheld a 2004 panel ruling that the U.S. had agreed to allow cross-border gambling services under its Uruguay Round services commitments, a decision that could lead to future challenges of U.S. regulations on gambling.

abril 7th

Official website of the WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong

6 April, 2005
Official website of the WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong