Archive - mars 2005 - Article

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

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

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.

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.

The Food and Drug Administration is seizing prescription drugs shipped to patients in the U.S. from overseas under I-Save Rx, the program sponsored by five states to help residents obtain low-cost medicines.

The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, 'routinely adopts implementing rules in the sugar sector in a matter of days,' Brazil added

Mandelson called for more meetings of capital-based senior officials in addition to more mini-ministerials.

On the first day of the Conference, the different working groups discussed both the state of the WTO negotiations and agreements (AoA, NAMA, TRIPS, GATS, FTA…) and the latest developments after the Canc

Johannesson has proposed to negotiators a checklist of issues to form part of an eventual formula to cut tariffs.

Most trade ministers attending the Mombasa meeting were indifferent to Mr. Mandelson's proposal, sources told WTD.