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21 Jul 2008
 
 
Trade ministers begin make-or-break WTO talks
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
Top trade officials begin a make-or-break session of world trade talks on Monday, haunted by failed efforts in 2006 and 2007 and concern over whether the United States can deliver on a deal. World...
 
 
16 Jul 2008
 
US courts Africa before Doha round meeting
TRADE TALKS
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab urged sub-Saharan African countries on Tuesday to join the United States in pushing for a world trade deal that requires India, Brazil, China and other major...
 
 
11 Jul 2008
 
WTO issues new farm, industry texts for Doha round
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
World Trade Organization mediators circulated new negotiating texts on Thursday that will serve as the blueprint for an outline deal in the WTO's long-running Doha round, trade officials said....
 
 
13 Mar 2008
 
Bush says time for 'tough choices' in Doha talks
WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
The time for deliberations in the World Trade Organization's Doha round, now in their seventh fractious year, has come and gone, President George W. Bush said on Wednesday. "The time for...
 
 
06 Feb 2008
 
WTO: Lamy: Trade expansion is insurance against financial turbulences (06/02/2008)
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Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the Geneva Lectures on Global Economic Governance on 6 February 2008, said that the global trading system during the past 60 years “has underpinned an...
 
 
28 Jan 2008
 
Highlights from Davos (January 2008)
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
"This is an issue which ranks next to climate change. There is a nexus between the two ... However water has gotten lost as part of the climate change debate."
 
 
10 Dec 2007
 
Ambitious EU-Africa summit ends in trade deadlock
EU-AFRICA SUMMIT
Africa and Europe's first summit in seven years ended on Sunday without agreement on the key issue of trade, dealing a blow to efforts to forge a new economic partnership between the two...
 
 
09 Dec 2007
 
WTO: Lamy: Doha could deliver double win for environment and trade (09/12/2007)
2007
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Informal Trade Ministers' Dialogue on Climate Change in Bali on 8-9 December 2007, said that the Doha negotiations on environmental goods and...
 
 
21 Sep 2006
 
US to do more on world trade offer to restart talks
News
The US will boost its offer to restart world trade talks and spur global economic growth amid demands from the European Union that it make further concessions on farm subsidies.
 
 
28 Apr 2004
 
WTO rules against US on cotton subsidies
News
Brazil won a preliminary ruling at the World Trade Organization on Monday night that could force the US to lower the subsidies it pays farmers to grow cotton and, eventually, most subsidized crops,...
 
 
07 Nov 2003
 
Museveni wants trade, not aid from developed nations
News
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda sent The Wall Street Journal an impassioned plea for trade from developed nations rather than aid, saying taxpayers in those nations paid twice for development...
 
 
03 Oct 2003
 
G22 bloc to meet in Argentina
News
Ministers of the 12 regional members of the Group of 22 that held out for lower WTO agricultural tariffs in Cancun are to meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina's foreign ministry told AFP Thursday.
 
 
27 Sep 2003
 
Zuma: Address to Nedlac annual summit (27/09/2003)
2003
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma, to NEDLAC Annual Summit
 
 
15 Sep 2003
 
New developing country force rises from WTO flop
News
A new and expanding alliance of developing countries yesterday left a doomed WTO conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found muscles.
 
 
WTO conference collapses amid North-South rift
News
The World Trade Organization's Cancun conference, called to galvanise momentum toward a new multilateral trade accord, collapsed yesterday, done in by a bitter North-South rift.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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