Archive

October 18th, 2005

G20 proposals on market access, domestic support

17 October, 2005
The Group of 20 developing countries has presented new proposals on market access and domestic support as part of the WTO agriculture negotiations.

Credibility of WTO at stake in Hong Kong

17 October, 2005
A failure to reach agreement at the forthcoming World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong would destroy the WTO's credibility and undermine the international trading system

EU Council conclusions on WTO DOHA Development Agenda

17 October, 2005
Conclusions of the EU Council on WTO Doha Development Agenda during its extraordinary external relations council meeting in Luxemburg.

G33 submits proposal on indicators for special products

17 October, 2005
he Group of 33 developing countries that operates in the WTO's agriculture negotiations has formally submitted a proposal on indicators for the designation of special products.

Geneva Update No. 2

17 October, 2005
The Doha negotiations, which only a few months ago was characterized as stalled over many areas of disagreements among Members, are now back in motion.

G33 proposal on Special Products

17 October, 2005
Link to the G33 proposal on Special Products.

EU makes procurement part of benchmarking proposal

17 October, 2005
Link to EC's model schedule proposal

Hong Kong WTO chief attacked for ignoring protests

17 October, 2005
Hong Kong's WTO chief, who is organising a key ministerial trade summit here, was under fire for what critics say was his poor handling of a small protest by anti-globalisation activists.

Delegation of the European Parliament's Left condems European negotiators' obsession with market access at the WTO

17 October, 2005
The delegation noted that the WTO negotiations were again being conducted without any transparency and were excluding from the different meetings those countries that are least rich and that have most demands to make in terms of their rights to development.

October 17th

Taiwan Asks Wto Members to Improve Communications Rules

16 October, 2005
Taiwan has submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a proposal for member economies to streamline their legal systems regarding the communications service sector