Archive - 2006

abril 11th

Volcker casts shadow on wheat import

10 April, 2006
Government

abril 10th

Cluster of plurilateral services meetings at WTO

9 April, 2006
A two-week 'cluster' on services ended at the WTO last Friday (7 April), after a flurry of meetings on several sectors, which marked the start of the new 'plurilateral method' of negotiations.

Agriculture Impasse Between U.S., EU Dims Prospects for Concluding Doha by Year-End

9 April, 2006
The prospects for successfully concluding the Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks by the end of the year appear to have dwindled significantly in recent weeks, sources said April 7, as the United States and the European Union continue to be at odds over the make-or-break issue of agriculture.

EU's Mandelson Calls U.S. Lawmaker's Trade Gibe 'Offensive'

9 April, 2006
European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson scorned as 'offensive' a U.S. lawmaker's proposal to drop the EU as a partner, highlighting the obstacles to a new World Trade Organization agreement.

abril 9th

No easy road to WTO's end-April deadline

8 April, 2006
The WTO's Director General Pascal Lamy by all accounts is sticking to the end-April deadline for reaching agreement on modalities for agriculture and non-agriculture market access (NAMA).

CBD sets 2010 deadline to set up global ABS regime

8 April, 2006
The 8th Conference of the Parties (COP 8) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ended late in the night on the last day of the meeting (31 March) with agreement on how to progress on access and benefit sharing (ABS), a key issue that has dogged the CBD for many years.

Malaysia-US FTA

8 April, 2006
Below are the links for your information the following documents on the Malaysia-US FTA opposition that is building up in Malaysia.

No easy road to WTO's end-April deadline

8 April, 2006
The WTO's Director General Pascal Lamy by all accounts is sticking to the end-April deadline for reaching agreement on modalities for agriculture and non-agriculture market access (NAMA).

abril 8th

Baldacci opts out of some WTO service-sector rules

7 April, 2006
Gov. John Baldacci has sent a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, stating that Maine would not be covered by the World Trade Organization's service-sector rules in the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

Baldacci requests WTO exemption

7 April, 2006
Concerned that state public services could be threatened by World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva this week, Gov. John E. Baldacci has asked federal trade officials to exempt Maine from the WTO's service sector rules.