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CANCUN COTTON PLAN
KEITH NUTHALL
THE WEST African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali have tabled an ambitious plan for the swift dismantling of developed country cotton subsidies; it will be examined at the World Trade Organisation’s ministerial summit in Cancun, Mexico, which opened today (Sept 10).…
WTO TALKS DELAY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOLLOWING the failed World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun, Mexico, the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation negotiations are being delayed. The “special session” of officials dealing with the food and drink portion of the Doha Development Round was supposed to meet in Geneva on October 6-9, but this meeting has now been postponed “indefinitely.”…
CANCUN FLOP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) will over the next three months try to pick up the pieces from its failed summit in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting was effectively scuppered by the developing world, which refused to talk about writing rules on protecting investment rights into a new WTO agreement.…
US - MEXICO: WTO
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has asked the WTO to settle a row with the USA over claims that Washington’s reimposition of anti-dumping duties on Mexican oil country tubular goods broke global trading regulations. Mexico claims Washington erred during a 2001 sunset review, alleging it “misapplied a ‘would be likely to lead’ standard,” when assessing if scrapping the tariffs might encourage cut-priced Mexican pipeline tube imports.…
US-MEXICO COUNTERVAILING DUTIES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has requested the formation of a World Trade Organisation panel over a dispute with the United States regarding its levying of 11.68 per cent countervailing duties on imports of carbon steel plate in sheets from Mexican producer Altos Hornos de México, SA de CV (AHMSA).…
CANCUN FLOP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) will over the next three months try to pick up the pieces from its failed summit in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting was effectively scuppered by the developing world, which refused to talk about writing rules on protecting investment rights into a new WTO agreement.…
CANCUN SUMMIT PRE-FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might be able to deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…
CANCUN SUMMIT PRE-FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are clear signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION ROUND UP
BY KEITH NUTHALL
*A south-south project – backed by World Bank Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) will raise Burundi’s teledensity ratio above one per cent. It is guaranteeing Mauritius Telecom Ltd’s US$1.01 million investment in Burundi’s Africell GSM mobile network.
*An emerging international market in hosting regional and international headquarters of transnational corporations benefits developing countries, says the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); 829 HQs were established or relocated January 2002 to March 2003, nearly a quarter in developing countries.…
CANCUN SUMMIT PRE-FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…