Archive - Mar 14, 2005 - Article

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

'We wanted a much more ambitious framework, but the US has already set the ground by suggesting its dual-coefficient ‘Swiss' formula and the EU and Norway with their credit-based approach, a key member of the 'Friends' group told WTD.

Success of even a modest outcome of the market access pillar in the ongoing farm trade negotiations as well as nonagricultural market access will depend largely on the European Union.

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.

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OBJECT TO WIPO CONSULTATION PROCESS ON PATENT TREATY TALKS

Once there is satisfactory movement in agricultural market access - when Brussels agrees to a modest outcome - then the major developing countries will have to come forward with substantial nonagricultural access offers, WTD was told.