Archive - Mar 2005 - Article

The dollar plunge and records-high trade deficit has created an opening ofr those who object to US membership in the WTO.

The Islamic Development Bank is strengthening its efforts to prepare the OIC member states for membership of the WTO.

Trade dispute pitting Boeing against Airbus

The paper, titled 'Establishment of a Partnership Program in WIPO' states that WIPO already has a 'robust development agenda' in all its work, and it clearly ignores and sidesteps the demands of the proponents of a 'development agenda' in WIPO.

The US has informally circulated a draft paper containing its views and proposals for the meeting in WIPO on a Development Agenda.

Civil society needs to increase support for the development calls of the south and increase pressure on the big trading powers.

Groser later told the subcommittee meeting that it was 'inconceivable' that a successful outcome in the Doha agriculture talks can be achieved without serious reform in domestic support and cotton, according to officials in attendance.

Larry Mitchell, American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) Chief Executive Officer, today stated his organization’s opposition to the U.S. ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

Many developing countries also strongly opposed the suggested trade-off between acceptance of an aggressive formula and their being able to use the 'flexibilities'.

The opportunities will be in eight major areas of the services sector, under the General Agreement on Trade and Services, a senior official told Daily Times on Tuesday.