Archive - 2005

a report on the controversy over a consultation meeting organised by the WIPO secretariat on in Casablanca on 16 February

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

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OBJECT TO WIPO CONSULTATION PROCESS ON PATENT TREATY TALKS

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

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

India's revised offer for market-opening in the Doha Development Agenda services negotiations will be "contingent" upon liberal commitments in cross-border and temporary movement of service providers from key industrialized countries.

The United States went a step further by saying ministers must agree on a 'standstill' in addition to making new commitments.