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

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

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.

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

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).

The United States and Uganda have issued a joint proposal calling for a ban on so-called "consularization" transactions and fees.

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

GENEVA--The United States and Uganda have issued a joint proposal calling for a ban on so-called 'consularization' transactions and fees as part of a future World Trade Organization agreement on trade facilitation.

At the latest WTO negotiations on NAMA, the major developed countries put great pressure on the developing countries to accept drastic cuts in their industrial tariffs.

Members of the WTO formally adopted a work program for the new WTO subcommittee on cotton.