Archive

outubro 25th, 2005

New agriculture proposals by G20 and Australia

24 October, 2005
Links to several G20 papers on elements of the agriculture negotiations plus a proposal by Australia on Sensitive Products

outubro 24th

EU has ten days to convince as global trade talks founder

23 October, 2005
Trade officials have warned that global trade talks are close to breaking point, leaving the European Union with ten days to either resolve a bitter internal rift or convince partners in the WTO to tame their demands on farm import barriers.

EU farm struggle casts doubt on WTO Hong Kong meet

23 October, 2005
A meeting of world trade ministers to hammer out a new global pact is in jeopardy unless Europe offers big cuts to its farm tariffs, the United States warned on Monday, and the EU itself admitted talks were on a 'knife-edge.'

WTO Secretariat reports continuing declines in both new anti-dumping investigations and new final anti-dumping measures

23 October, 2005
The WTO Secretariat, on 24 October 2005, reported that in the period 1 January-30 June 2005, the number of initiations of new anti-dumping investigations and the number of new measures applied continued their previously-reported declining trends.

outubro 23rd

Developing countries comments on complementary approaches

22 October, 2005
Some statements by developing countries rejecting the complementary approaches

outubro 22nd

Canadian Softwood Controversy Shows Why You Can?t Trust the US to Live up to Trade Deals

21 October, 2005
As developing country negotiators in Geneva are offered what appears to be an attractive US offer to cut its agricultural subsidies by 60 per cent in order to pave the way to a new WTO Agreement in Agriculture, they might look at what is happening in Canada to understand why it is most unwise to enter into yet another trade agreement involving the United States.

outubro 21st

New Norwegian government promises Gats revision

20 October, 2005
The new Norwegian coalition government (Social democrats, socialist left party and the centre/farmers party) which is backed by a majority in Parliament, has released its declaration for their coming four years in office. The declaration offers at least a rhetorical change around WTO issues.

'Blame game' follows failure of FIPs Ministers' meeting

20 October, 2005
The WTO preparations for the Hong Kong Ministerial conference suffered a serious setback Wednesday night when a key meeting on agriculture involving Ministers of five major countries - the US, EU, Brazil, India and Australia - ended abruptly after failing to make any progress. The session scheduled for Thursday was cancelled.

Brazilian Official Defends Tariff Cuts, Hopes for Progress on Agricultural Goods

20 October, 2005
Brazil's Finance Minister Ant