Archive

June 30th, 2006

No Breakthroughs On Doha, But U.S. Officials Still Hopeful

29 June, 2006
U.S. trade negotiators appear to have made no breakthroughs in the bilateral meetings leading up to the formal World Trade Organization's Doha round negotiating sessions scheduled to begin today in Geneva

As Ministerial starts, the question is “Who will move first?”

29 June, 2006
As various WTO groupings held their own meetings on Thursday to plan ahead of the mini-Ministerial Green Room the next day, and as some Ministers gave their previews to the media, the question being asked by delegates and observers alike is “Who will move first, or will no one move at all?”

Crossing Swords With the EU

29 June, 2006
New US Trade Representative Susan Schwab crossed swords with her European Union counterpart over Brussels

Sticking to Positions

29 June, 2006
Doha Development Agenda key players the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India and the Group-of-10 defensive coalition stuck tight to their positions yesterday on Doha Development Agenda agriculture and nonagricultural market access

Mr. Lamy’s Failed ‘20-20-20' Formula

29 June, 2006
World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy

A Split EU

29 June, 2006
France, Ireland, Italy and Portugal yesterday strongly opposed any move by the European Union

Geneva Talks Could Break Early As U.S. Shows No Flexibility

29 June, 2006
Within a day of starting their negotiations, ministers today (June 30) raised significant doubts about how much progress they could make on developing modalities for agriculture and non-agricultural market access this week.

WTO TRIPs Proposal Would Address Biopiracy

29 June, 2006
Poor countries want new rules for the WTO's intellectual property agreement that would protect their biological resources and traditional knowledge

WTO Mini-Ministerial becomes "Waiting for America"

29 June, 2006
The first day of the WTO 'mini-Ministerial' turned out to be a kind of 'Waiting for America' process as delegations and media in one meeting after another waited for the United States to proclaim on whether it was willing to improve its offer to cut agricultural domestic support.

June 29th

Concerns on process and on 'real trade flows' on eve of Ministerial

28 June, 2006
As many Ministers and senior officials arrived today in Geneva for several days of WTO meetings, speculation was still rife on how the 'Ministerial Green Room' would be run, what issues would the Director General Pascal Lamy really want to focus on (and what issues may thus be left out), and what the Ministers and officials who are not invited to the Green Room would be doing.