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BL Das' paper stresses that the developing countries should take a negotiating position that retains their present flexibilities in determining tariff policy that enables them to undertake industrial development.

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OBJECT TO WIPO CONSULTATION PROCESS ON PATENT TREATY TALKS

Iraq's fragile food sector, battered by decades of war and sanctions, is open for business.

a report on the controversy over a consultation meeting organised by the WIPO secretariat on in Casablanca on 16 February

Once there is satisfactory movement in agricultural market access - when Brussels agrees to a modest outcome - then the major developing countries will have to come forward with substantial nonagricultural access offers, WTD was told.

Success of even a modest outcome of the market access pillar in the ongoing farm trade negotiations as well as nonagricultural market access will depend largely on the European Union.

'We wanted a much more ambitious framework, but the US has already set the ground by suggesting its dual-coefficient ‘Swiss' formula and the EU and Norway with their credit-based approach, a key member of the 'Friends' group told WTD.

The 'Friends of Ambition' in Doha market access negotiations for industrials converged last week around a 'Swiss' tariff-cutting formula.

The battle between Latin American banana producers and the European Union over the EU's proposed tariff on banana imports is beginning to heat up.

WTO members are hoping to achieve enough progress in Hong Kong in key negotiating sectors such as agriculture and market access for nonagricultural goods to ensure the successful conclusion of the Doha Round in 2006.