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dezembro 13th, 2005

Ministerial opens amid protests and diplomatic activism

12 December, 2005
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TWN Briefings for Hong Kong No. 3

12 December, 2005
Though there are problems in all the critical areas of agriculture, viz., market access, domestic subsidy and export subsidy, the key questions are in the domestic subsidy of the developed countries

Doha Development Agenda a disaster for Third World people

12 December, 2005
As the World Trade Organization prepares for the opening of the 6th Ministerial Conference today, independent think-tank IBON says that the center of its negotiations, the Doha Development Agenda (DDA)

U.S. Makes Plea On Cotton, West Africans Unimpressed

12 December, 2005
With the World Trade Organization meeting under way, the United States is trying to convince West African governments to pressure the European Union into making a bigger offer to cut agricultural tariffs and subsidies.

dezembro 12th

Wal-Mart Hopes WTO/GATS Will Help Big Box retailers; Local officials fear loss of power

11 December, 2005
Wal-Mart Hopes WTO Will Help It Open a Door Big retailers will seek to alter a services pact. Local officials fear a loss of power to limit firms.

Leaked Documents Show EU Digging In

11 December, 2005
The charity Christian Aid has cited leaked documents to say that the European Union (EU) will push developing nations to privatise services such as water, healthcare and banking at the trade ministers meeting in Hong Kong this week.

Portman, Johanns Off to Hong Kong

11 December, 2005
US Trade Representative Rob Portman told reporters he is optimistic that members can make 'incremental' progress on some substantial issues as well as arrive at a plan for least developed countries

Freedom to trade or freedom from hunger?

11 December, 2005
The problem is not the inability to resolve differences among the WTO country members, but the model of development that the WTO promotes.

Facilitating Agriculture in Hong Kong

11 December, 2005
Facilitator for agriculture at this week’s WTO’s sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong, Mukhisa Kituyi, said in Geneva on Saturday he intends to conduct discussions in all three pillars of Doha Development Agenda farm negotiations adding that he wants to explore with trade ministers where they can arrive at figures to be plugged into the liberalization formulas

dezembro 11th

First WTO protests in Hong Kong

10 December, 2005
Several thousand people have staged the first of a series of protests in Hong Kong over the World Trade Organization summit to be held this week.