It is time to reassess the relationship between the WTO and Energy Charter Treaty, writes Anna Marhold.
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Analysis: The EU’s flirtation with trade liberalism in agriculture
Is the EU toying with liberalism in its trade policy? Signs are it is increasingly tempted by embracing global market forces, leading to new compromises in trade agreements. By Iana Dreyer.
Interview: Nairobi shows WTO is still a player in trade negotiations
The last Nairobi WTO ministerial conference in Nairobi did not reaffirm the original mandate of the 2001 Doha Development Agenda, to the disappointment of some WTO members. It has nonetheless delivered significant results, and shown that the WTO is sill a player in global trade negotiations, argues Stuart Harbinson* in a an exclusive interview with Borderlex’s …
ITA 2 agreement lifts mood in Nairobi
The last-minute conclusion of a free trade pact for information technology goods – the ITA2 – is lifting the mood at the ongoing WTO Ministerial in Nairobi. By Iana Dreyer. (Photo: WTO. During press conference at Nairobi, 16 December 2015). ***
Blog: US & rich country strategy to kill off Doha is risky ….
…. not only your favourite EU trade editor has doubts that killing off the Doha round is a good idea (doubt 1 here, doubt 2 here). International Relations guru Daniel Drezner too: see his post at the Washington Post . Abstracts:
Analysis: Elusive environment and ICT ‘plurilaterals’ – can the trade negotiation machinery deliver at all?
Hopes that the 10th WTO Ministerial conference in Nairobi next week would seal the comeback of multilateral trade talks are waning. Is the WTO having a ‘China problem’ rather than a DDA format problem? Recent troubles with plurilaterals like the ITA-2 and Environmental Goods Agreement would indicate so. That complicates …
Nairobi WTO ministerial ‘deliverables’ elusive, last-minute business calls for deal
The World Trade Organization’s tenth Ministerial Meeting will be held next week in Nairobi, Kenya. Despite intensive negotiations throughout 2015, ‘deliverables’ in terms of concrete trade deals remain elusive. The WTO’s chief Roberto Azevêdo and a coalition of business groups are getting nervous.
BLOG: Why rich countries better not hasten end of Doha Round
Calls by the US, the EU and other advanced economies to drop the unwieldy Doha Round format of trade talks ahead of the forthcoming Nairobi WTO Ministerial mean they could end up comfortably ducking the agricultural question that has poisoned the atmosphere in the multilateral trade body for twenty years. That could damage their ambitions …
Environmental Goods Agreement : high hopes for a small deal
A ‘green goods’ trade deal under negotiation among a subset of World Trade Organization members has good chances of materialising by December this year. But the process of determining which good makes it into the list of liberalised goods is highly politicised. EGA will not likely give a significant boost to …
WTO: EU and US do not see alike on finalising Doha ahead of Nairobi Ministerial
The European Union and the United States have crossed swords on a package of measures World Trade Organization members have pledged to adopt as part of efforts to finalise the Doha round of trade talks in the run-up to the trade body’s tenth ministerial conference in Nairobi in December. The disagreements …
