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Geneva Update

26 June, 2005
This is the June 27, 2005 issue of Geneva Update, titled 'Formula one Racing: Who's going to win the Grand Prix?'

Services Still At a Standstill in Geneva

26 June, 2005
A 'brain-storming' session on Friday among nine key members of the World Trade Organization to set quantitative benchmarks in the sluggish Doha Development Agenda services negotiations has failed to bring about convergence

Focus on Trade, Number 110, June 2005

26 June, 2005
June 2005 issue of Focus on Trade

Civil society groups voice concerns over GATS talks at WTO

26 June, 2005
More than 160 civil society organizations from around the world sent a letter to WTO ambassadors in Geneva Thursday expressing their deep concerns regarding the current round of negotiations on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which is part of the 'single undertaking'under the July 2004 Framework

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Civil Society Statement to the Trade Experts Meeting preparing for the Meeting of the Ministers Responsible for Trade in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Livingstone, Zambia, 25 June 2005

25 June, 2005
Civil Society Statement to the Trade experts meeting preparing for the meeting of the ministers responsible for trade in LDCs

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Divisions continue at WIPO patents committee meeting

24 June, 2005
Divisions continue at WIPO patents committee meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Patents, held on 1-2 June 2005.

Trade: WTO members discuss 'tiered' tariff cuts in agriculture

24 June, 2005
Agriculture negotiations resumed in the WTO from 30 May to 3 June, with members engaging since 30 May on issues relating to market access for the first time after an understanding was reached earlier this month among the major countries on the conversion of non ad valorem duties to ad valorem equivalents.

Trade: WTO Rules Group discusses new proposal on anti-dumping

24 June, 2005
The WTO Negotiating Group on Rules, holding a weeklong meeting (30 May - 3 June), has received a new proposal with respect to thedetermination of dumping margins under the Anti-Dumping Agreement.

WIPO members split on future work on patent law treaty

24 June, 2005
A meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standingcommittee on patents (SCP) was held on 1-2 June 2005. At the meeting,WIPO member states were unable to agree on how the future workof the committee should proceed(M.Khor)

No agreement on future work of WIPO Patents Committee

24 June, 2005
The Standing Committee on the Law ofPatents (SCP) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ended itsmeeting on 3 June 2005 without any agreement among Member States on how the future workprogramme of the committee should proceed.