Archive - Ago 2005

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August 12th

Report: GATS Consultation by Indian Commerce Ministry

11 August, 2005
Heres a short report of a GATS consultation organised by the Ministry of Commerce and UNCTAD. This was the third in the series of consultations towards HK

August 8th

Bound to Applied Rates, Then Cut * US

7 August, 2005
The final formula for reducing industrial tariffs in the Doha Development Agenda negotiations must bring down high bound tariffs to existing applied rates

Pakistan proposal on market access for non-agricultural products

7 August, 2005
Pakistan Proposal for a Market Access Formula for Non-Agricultural Products presented at the mini-Ministerial in Dalian, China12-14 July 2005.

August 6th

U.S. Remains Committed to FTAA, But Commerce Official Says Leave Farm Subsidy Issue to WTO

5 August, 2005
The Bush administration remains committed to the stalled Free Trade Area of the Americas but the issue of U.S. farm subsidies and support policies should be dealt with at the World Trade Organization.

August 5th

US, Philippines Coordinate on DDA

4 August, 2005
The United States and the Philippines last week concluded meetings under the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, during which they discussed the full range of bilateral issues and coordinated on the World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda negotiations

August 3rd

Anticipating Resumed DDA Negotiations

2 August, 2005
Incoming World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy is preparing to go 'full steam ahead' into an intensive negotiating phase of the Doha Development Agenda by directing the chairs of the agriculture and industrial market access negotiations commence text-based negotiations without delay

August 2nd

WTO's general council meeting concludes without outcome; 4 deputy DGs announced

1 August, 2005
The WTO General Council meeting ended on 29 July without any of the anticipated results of additional agreements (or 'first approximations') on key aspects of the Doha work programme

WTO rules EU banana duty unfair to Latin America

1 August, 2005
The World Trade Organization rejected European Union plans to triple its banana import tariff

Developing countries voice concern over the substance and process of WTO negotiations

1 August, 2005
At the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) on 28 July, severaldeveloping countries expressed many concerns about the state and substance of the WTO negotiations, as well as the process which theyfound to be not transparent or participatory.(M.Khor)

August 1st

?Defensive' Agriculture

31 July, 2005
Farm policy chiefs of the European Union and the defensive Group-of-10 coalition on Friday signaled their opposition to cap high farm tariffs as suggested in the 'middle ground' market access formula of the Group-of-20 countries