WTO Process Issues

Follow-up letter on the disaccreditation issue from OWINFS to Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the WTO

srijan — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:54:31 +0000

3 December, 2017

Dear Mr. Roberto Azevêdo,

Greetings from Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network. We are writing to remind you that we are awaiting a response to our letter, and to bring additional facts to bear on our predicament.

We fully understand that in the case of the banned civil society representatives, that they had been duly accredited by the WTO, and that the decision to revoke the accreditation lies with the Argentine government.

3 December, 2017 (All day)

How Sitharaman Served Up India Instead of Using WTO High Table to Block US Agenda

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:27:33 +0000

25 December, 2015

THE WIRE

Biraj Patnaik the Principal Adviser in the Office of the Supreme Court commissioners on the Right to Food narrates, how Sitharaman Served Up India Instead of Using WTO High Table to Block US Agenda.

25 December, 2015 (All day)

Don't buy the spin: The WTO talks in Nairobi ended badly and India will pay a price

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:13:12 +0000

24 December, 2015

Scroll.in

Don't buy the spin: The WTO talks in Nairobi ended badly and India will pay a price India's Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, invited into a select group to negotiate the final text of the Nairobi agreement, let the rich countries have their way.

Article by Biraj Patnaik and Timothy A Wise

24 December, 2015 (All day)

U.S. civil society groups back India’s stand at WTO

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:57:44 +0000

13 December, 2015

The Hindu

India’s demand that the World Trade Organization (WTO) take steps, on a priority basis, to safeguard the interests of poor farmers as well as the food security programmes in developing countries has received support within the U.S.

13 December, 2015 (All day)

Major Summit Could Put World's Poorest Inhabitants on Corporate Chopping Block

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:35:33 +0000

13 December, 2015

ALTERNET

Last week, 453 civil society groups including trade unions, farmers, environmentalists, public interest groups and development advocates from over 150 countries wrote an urgent letter to members of the WTO to “express extreme alarm about the current situation of the negotiations in the WTO.” This is the largest number of endorsers on a letter about the WTO in the last decade and is a signal of the dire situation

13 December, 2015 (All day)

India’s time to lead at the WTO

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:06:05 +0000

12 December, 2015

DownToEarth

USA’s price suppression and market distortions in cotton is threatening Indian and African producers.

As we approach the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial on December 15-18 in Nairobi, India is leading a group of developing countries insisting that the development goals promised in Doha in 2001 be achieved. On the other hand, the US, European Union (EU) and Japan have called for a “recalibration” of that agenda, one that leaves agriculture largely off the table. India is right to lead the fight for reforms in developed countries’ agricultural policies.

Cotton should be at the centre of those reforms. A recent study suggests that US subsidies under the 2014 Farm Bill will continue to suppress global cotton prices. Recognising this threat, Africa’s so-called Cotton 4 (or C-4) – Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Chad – tabled a proposal in October calling on the US and other WTO members to make good on the longstanding commitment to address the cotton issue.

12 December, 2015 (All day)

US Civil Society letter to Froman: U.S. trade policy in WTO MC10 at Nairobi should enhance countries’ rights to feed their peoples

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:50:32 +0000

11 December, 2015

Refuse signatories

In a letter to USTR Michael Froman, US civil society groups urged US government to support a transparent and inclusive multilateral process to resolve these pressing issues. U.S. trade policy should enhance countries’ rights to feed their peoples. It should not advance negotiations that leave most countries out of decisions that they then may have to adopt as a fait accompli at a later time.

11 December, 2015 (All day)

Global Civil Society letter on the Nairobi Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO), December 9, 2015

Manicandan — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:28:26 +0000

9 December, 2015

Refuse signatories

As members of 453 civil society organizations including trade unions, environmentalists, farmers, development advocates, and public interest groups from over 150 countries, we are writing today to express extreme alarm about the current situation of the negotiations in the WTO. We urge you to take seriously the need for the upcoming Nairobi Ministerial to change existing WTO rules to make the global trading system more compatible with people-centered development, and to forestall efforts by some developed countries to abandon the development agenda and replace it with a set of so-called “new issues” that actually are non-trade issues that would impact deeply on domestic economies and constrain national policy space required for development and public interest.

9 December, 2015 (All day)

SSM blocked by US, EU, Australia and Brazil

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:15:56 +0000

30 November, 2015

TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Nov15/20)

The United States, the European Union, Australia, and Brazil on Tuesday (24 November) blocked a major deliverable concerning the special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for the developing countries at the World Trade Organization's tenth ministerial meeting in Nairobi beginning on December 15, several trade envoys told the SUNS.

30 November, 2015 (All day)

US trying to scupper Nairobi outcome on food security

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:06:32 +0000

12 November, 2015

Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Nov15/09)

The United States, the European Union, Australia, and other countries have nearly scuppered an outcome for the proposed permanent solution for public stockholding programs for food security purposes as demanded by 47 developing countries at the upcoming ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi next month, several trade envoys told the SUNS.

12 November, 2015 (All day)

Food security: US, EU rule out permanent solution for public stock holding programmes

Manicandan — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:32:54 +0000

7 November, 2015

live mint

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for an outcome on public stockholding programmes for food security at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ministerial meeting next month in Nairobi has almost been spiked after the US, the European Union, Canada and Australia ruled out any change from the existing interim arrangement.

7 November, 2015 (All day)

The long arms of trade

Manicandan — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:47:01 +0000

4 November, 2015

India Together

As the countdown for the tenth Ministerial Conference of the WTO to be held in Nairobi, Kenya through 15-18 December commences, Shalini Bhutani emphasises the need for a cautious deliberation on how trade rules affect key sectors and all stakeholders.

4 November, 2015 (All day)

Nairobi WTO meeting to test India’s resolve on agriculture

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:47:02 +0000

13 October, 2015

livemint

India unlikely to secure credible gains for its millions of poor farmers unless the govt stands firm against the US over its opposition to New Delhi’s demands in agriculture

13 October, 2015 (All day)

Africa and the WTO - the Perils of Weakening the Development Agenda

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:41:04 +0000

9 October, 2015

allAfrica

Biraj Patnaik and Timothy A. Wise in this article underline perils of Weakening the Development Agenda for Africa in the run up to 10th WTO Ministerial at Nairobi.

9 October, 2015 (All day)

Africa needs substantial cuts in domestic subsidies of North, US told

Manicandan — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:35:24 +0000

5 October, 2015

TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Oct15/04)

The African Group on Monday (September 28) has told the United States that they will need substantial reduction commitments in the domestic support pillar of agriculture based on the 2008 revised draft modalities to conclude the Doha Round, African trade envoys told the SUNS.

5 October, 2015 (All day)