Archive

March 9th, 2005

FDA Seizes Drugs Imported Under Five-State Program (Update1)

8 March, 2005
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.

Brazil Seeks 3-Month Deadline For EU Compliance With Sugar Ruling

8 March, 2005
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, 'routinely adopts implementing rules in the sugar sector in a matter of days,' Brazil added

March 8th

India's Services Challenge

7 March, 2005
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.

EU Proposal on Capital-Based Meetings

7 March, 2005
Mandelson called for more meetings of capital-based senior officials in addition to more mini-ministerials.

Singapore To Allow Protests At Next Year's IMF-World Bank Meetings

7 March, 2005
An estimated 16,000 delegates from 184 countries are expected to descend on Singapore for the gathering, including 300 finance ministers and heads of central banks.

After Seattle And Canc?n... Next Stop: Hong Kong

7 March, 2005
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

African Nations Urge U.S. to Implement WTO Cotton Ruling by December Ministerial

7 March, 2005
'Two years after the submission of our sectoral initiative on cotton, it is now time to move from the stage of declarations and clarifications and finally move to concrete actions,' -Samuel Amehou

EU Proposal On Capital-Based Meetings

7 March, 2005
Most trade ministers attending the Mombasa meeting were indifferent to Mr. Mandelson's proposal, sources told WTD.

Planning NAMA Negotiations

7 March, 2005
Doha Development Agenda market access for industrial and consumer goods Chairman Stefan Hakur Johannesson has proposed to negotiators a checklist of issues to form part of an eventual formula to cut tariffs (WTD, 3/7/05).

After Seattle and Canc?n... Next stop: Hong Kong

7 March, 2005
Once again, the peoples of the world will expose, right at WTO's doorstep, the consequences of its corporate-driven agenda on the livelihoods and working conditions of men, women and children worldwide.