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GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, with Argentina, Canada and Egypt have decided to challenge at the WTO the EU’s five-year de facto moratorium on imports of biotech foods and crops. EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Brussels would fight the case, maintaining that “the EU’s regulatory system for GMO’s authorisation is in line with WTO rules.”…
MILLENNIUM EDUCATION GOALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations’ (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.
Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.…
GM CASE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, with Argentina, Canada and Egypt have decided to challenge at the WTO the EU’s five-year de facto moratorium on imports of biotech foods and crops. EU trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said Brussels would fight the case, maintaining that “the EU’s regulatory system for GMO’s authorisation is in line with WTO rules.”…
CHILE PRICE BANDS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHILE has been given until December 23 to scrap a price band system, using variable import duties to maintain domestic sugar prices. A World Trade Organisation arbiter made the ruling after Chile lost a WTO dispute over the system, brought by Argentina.…
CHILE V ARGENTINA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, launching formal talks with Chile over Santiago’s imposition of 14 per cent temporary safeguard duties on fructose. Argentina claims that Chile broke the WTO’s GATT agreement by imposing the duties.…
CITES MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESTRICTED trade in knitted products from wool culled from captured wild vicuna in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile has been approved by a conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…
CITES MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESTRICTED trade in wool from captured wild vicuna in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile has been approved by a conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The United Nations (UN) convention’s members agreed in Santiago, Chile, to lift a ban in trading these small beasts “for the purpose of allowing international trade in wool sheared from live animals…bearing the label vicuna Argentina, Bolivia or Chile.”…
CITES MEETING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESTRICTED trade in cloth from wool culled from captured wild vicuna in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile has been approved by a conference of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).…
OIL TUBES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US government’s determination to maintain anti-dumping duties against Argentine exports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) is being challenged at the World Trade Organisation by Buenos Aires, which has launched formal consultations on the row. This is the first stage in disputes proceedings; if the talks fail, then Argentina can demand that a WTO panel adjudicates over the duties.…
CHILE WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by Chile to maintain domestic sugar prices by using variable import duties has been declared contrary to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules by the appellate body of the WTO disputes procedure. Chile’s price band system was challenged at the WTO by Argentina, with the support of both the US and the EU.…