Archive

May 9th, 2006

Agriculture talks at boiling point over Special Products

8 May, 2006
WTO negotiations in agriculture have reached a near-crisis over the issues of Special Products (SP) and Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), with developing countries that have championed these concepts being in a state of fury at what they see as attempts by the United States and some other exporting countries to undermine agreement on and use of these two instruments.

May 8th

US calls for SR Officials MTG for G-12, plus spec products

7 May, 2006
The United States has called for a senior officials meeting of the Group-of-12 countries next week to review the state of progress in faltering Doha modalities negotiations, WTD was told (WTD, 5/5/06).

More Agriculture Papers from the WTO

7 May, 2006
Links to several documents that have been distributed in the recent agriculture negotiations.

Recent Communications on Domestic Regulation in GATS

7 May, 2006
Links to the recent communications on domestic regulation in the GATS negotiations.

May 5th

No WTO deal better than a bad deal, says Indian Minister

4 May, 2006
India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath stressed on 25 April in Geneva that the current WTO talks must not violate cardinal development principles.

Don't make bacon out of us, say developing countries at TNC meeting

4 May, 2006
Several developing countries and their groupings presented their assessments of the state of the Doha negotiations as the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee met on Monday 1 May.

Positions and problems become clearer as WTO talks set to intensify

4 May, 2006
The WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 1 May and statements made by some Trade Ministers visiting the WTO have further clarified positions of some key members and groupings and some of the major differences among them that need to be resolved if the Doha talks are to progress fast enough.

Chair's Reference Paper on Special Products

4 May, 2006
Link to the Chair's reference paper on Special Products.

May 3rd

Recent Agriculture Papers

2 May, 2006
Links to several new papers on agriculture.

U.S. proposal on Special Products

2 May, 2006
Link to the U.S. proposal on Special Products (SPs).