Archive - 2005

October 26th

EU trade talks undermined as sugar reform blocked

25 October, 2005
Further troubles for Brussels' negotiating position in worldwide trade liberalisation talks emerged on Tuesday (25 October), as 11 member states reaffirmed their opposition against a commission-proposed sugar reform.

October 25th

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

Canadian criticism strains relations with U.S.

24 October, 2005
Perceived slights and misunderstandings are normal features of the United States' relationship with Canada. But Canadians and outside experts say Ottawa's view of Washington now is as strained and combative as anyone can remember.

October 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.

October 23rd

Developing countries comments on complementary approaches

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

October 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.

October 21st

DDA Success or Failure EU Decides

20 October, 2005
Trade ministers in two informal trade sessions yesterday and Wednesday put the European Union on notice that it must come up with a substantially revised market access offer on agricultural trade in the ongoing Doha Development Agenda by next Thursday or take the blame for the collapse of the four-year-old talks