Archive

July 28th, 2005

European Commission's DG Trade reply to questions raised by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)

27 July, 2005
The European Commission's DG Trade has finally replied to questions raised by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) about the privileged access and influence of industry lobby groups like the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) and the European Services Forum (ESF).

Ambassador Jara's report to the Trade Negotiations Committee

27 July, 2005
Following the World Trade Organization (WTO) Mini-Ministerial Meeting in Dalian, China earlier this month, Ambassador Alejandro Jara, Chairman of the WTO Council for Trade in Services Special Session, issued a report on the state of play in the Doha Round services negotiations.

Press release: Passage of DR-CAFTA Bad News for Farmers

27 July, 2005
The passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the U.S. House of Representatives late last night signals a major setback for U.S. sugar farmers and a damaging blow to Central American farmers

India's Revamped Services Offer

27 July, 2005
India yesterday offered a substantial market-opening for foreign financial services companies

July 27th

Update on WTO 27 July 500pm

26 July, 2005
It dealt with eight regular items today, including TRIPS andhealth, special and dfiierential treatment, small economies,implementation issues, budget committee.

General Council meets amid gloom of 'no outcome'

26 July, 2005
The WTO General Council started its meeting today in an atmosphere of anti-climax as well as general gloom that its long-touted objective of coming up with 'first approximations' of modalities on key issues to give a boost to the preparations for the Hongkong Ministerial in December would not be fulfilled.

Update on WTO General Council process

26 July, 2005
the chair of the agriculture negotiationsreported that there had been negotiations among a small group of countries in thepast week.

No progress in agriculture talks

26 July, 2005
There has been no progress in the agriculture talks over the past days, but it is not a crisis

July 26th

Lack of convergence continues on eve of General Council meeting

25 July, 2005
On the eve of the WTO General Council meeting (which starts on 27 July), there does not appear to be any last minute breakthroughs on the main issues of agriculture or non-agricultural market access (NAMA).

July 25th

Rules progress linked to AG, NAMA

24 July, 2005
Bilateral and plurilateral meetings on fisheries and antidumping (AD) dominated the work of the 11-15 July session of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Negotiating Group on Rules