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Tag: WTO
WTO: Fishing for a small deal in Buenos Aires
The World Trade Organization has done a good job of tamping down any expectation that its upcoming ministerial meeting will agree on much of anything.
US snubs Mexican proposal aimed at filling WTO Appellate Body vacancies
Almost a third of the World Trade Organization’s 164 members backed a new proposal today to start the process of choosing candidates for three Appellate Body vacancies and to appoint the replacements by next March. Mexico presented the proposal on behalf of 52 WTO members — counting the EU and …
COMMENT: All moral now? The EU seal product ban – Updated on 15/09
The European Parliament has enacted legislation to put a 2009 seal product sale ban in compliance with World Trade Organization rules. Those rules in fact force the EU to be even more ‘moral’ than it intended to. In practice, the seal product ban raises new moral questions: but that’s beyond the remit of …
In brief: European Union ratifies WTO Trade Faciliation Agreement
The European Parliament ratified the Trade Facilitation Agreement today. The deal was signed at the last Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in Bali in December 2013. China formally adopted the agreement last week. The FTA is the only successful component of the fourteen-year-old Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations so far. …
EU ready to agree to a scaled-down Doha deal
EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström is ready to settle for a “calibrated” agreement to conclude the Doha Round multilateral trade negotiations by the end of this year. She wants the interests of the poorest countries in the development dossier to be addressed satisfactorily in the final deal. This is what emerges …
Comment – The World Trade Organization: an Indian Summer?
[sh_light_text ]With the recent adoption of the Trade Facilitation Agreeement, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has had a few very good weeks. Yet there is still a lot of work ahead to retake lost ground.[/sh_light_text]
Are BRICS the new EU target in the WTO?
The European Union (EU)’s trade policy has become more assertive towards big emerging markets over the last years. The number and types of cases brought to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement body over the last ten years are an indication of this trend.
Green-goods initiative launched this week to underpin EU climate, energy goals
[sh_light_text ]The EU and 13 other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) including the US, China and Japan wrapped up the first round of talks on the Environmental Goods Trade (EGA) today in Geneva. The EU hopes the deal will help it meet its climate and energy security targets. But major …
Blog: UNCTAD & WTO reports on investment & trade measures – EU in all this
Yesterday, new facts and numbers of about international trade and investment policies came out of Geneva. A short UNCTAD-OECD report on G20 Investment Measures was published, and the WTO released its semi-annual report on trade measures as a means to track down protectionist tendencies. Borderlex is interested in how Europe is …
