Archive - Jan 2007

January 24th

WTO must not win at the cost of Pakistani Farmers

23 January, 2007
Pakistan

African Ministers want to explore "all alternatives" in EPA talks

23 January, 2007
African Trade Ministers at their recent meeting in Addis

January 23rd

US, EU Now Farther Apart on DDA?

22 January, 2007
The European Union and the United States are a bit further apart than they were a week ago on settling their differences in the agriculture Doha Development Agenda negotiations.

Argentina, Brazil Join Canada’s WTO Complaint Against U.S. Corn Subsidies

22 January, 2007
South American agricultural powers Argentina and Brazil have joined Canada in a complaint against the United States over what they claim are illegal government handouts to American corn growers, trade officials said Monday.

Poor will gain nothing from last ditch attempts to kick-start doha deal

22 January, 2007
Trade ministers from developing countries meeting in Davos this week should resist pressure to restart the stalled WTO trade talks because there is next to nothing on offer that will help reduce global poverty, said ActionAid today.

The EU approach to FTA talks with ASEAN, India, Korea

22 January, 2007
On 6 December 2006, the EU Commission announced that it had finalised three draft mandates for negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with ASEAN, Korea and India, together with two mandates for negotiations with Central America and the Andean Community.

January 21st

US and EU near agriculture trade deal

20 January, 2007
Trade negotiators from the US and European Union are edging a deal that could restart stalled world trade talks, according to people familiar with the discussions.

January 20th

G33 criticizes World Bank paper on Special Products

19 January, 2007
The Group of 33 developing countries in the WTO has warned the World Bank that its revised draft paper on agricultural special products (SPs) is fundamentally flawed in its assumptions and methodology and could have adverse consequences for the Doha Round negotiations.

January 19th

WTO plans threaten sea life: Greenpeace

18 January, 2007
Pirates and licensed trawlers are pillaging the world's oceans, while proposals on the table for trade ministers meeting in Switzerland next week could prove the final blow to sea life, Greenpeace said on Friday.