WTO to attend Cairns Group

1 June, 2009
Straits Times
WTO chief Pascal Lamy (left) will attend a meeting in Bali next week as part of attempts to restart global trade talks

Developing countries nix Lamy's two-track approach to Doha talks

28 May, 2009
SUNS #6708
Many developing countries appear to have opposed and/or voiced concerns over a suggestion by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy for work along "two simultaneous tracks", one on modalities in agriculture and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) and another for commencing the scheduling exercise in both these areas.

WTO to hold seventh Ministerial Conference end November

28 May, 2009
SUNS #6708
The WTO General Council on Tuesday decided to convene its seventh Ministerial Conference in Geneva from 30 November to 2 December, nearly four years after its last conference in Hong Kong-China in 2005.

Australia: Don't Push PACER

9 June, 2009
AFTINET
Next week, Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean will attend the Pacific Island Forum Trade Ministers Meeting in Apia, Samoa.

SNR Coalition Statement on the Doha Round Negotiations

Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR)
The Stop the New Round Coalition (SNR) joins peoples’ organizations and movements across the globe in calling for the rejection of the WTO Doha Round and we demand that the Philippine government turn around and walk away from these unfair and unjust negotiations.

Norma Maldonado on the EU Central America Trade Deal

Submitted by verda.cook on 8 June, 2009 - 04:06
Since 2007, the European Commission has been negotiating an agreement with a group of Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, with Panama as an observer), a region where 40 per cent of people live on less than US$2 a day. The Commission is desperate to complete this deal and so is piling pressure on Central American countries to finalise it by June 2009.

Statement to the COMESA Summit on the ESA-EC Economic Partnership Agreements Negotiations

1 June, 2009
SEATINI
Statement to the COMESA Summit on the ESA-EC Economic Partnership Agreements Negotiations

India, US to talk WTO deadlock

3 June, 2009
The Economic Times
India and the US will hold bilateral talks soon in an attempt to narrow their differences on the ongoing Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) Statement on Colombia

The ETF Congress, meeting in Ponta Delgada from 27-29 May 2009