Search Results for: World Trade Organisation

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOBAL questionnaire on container transport insurance has been launched by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, (UNCITRAL), which wants to kick start efforts to create a UN convention on liability for multi-modal transportation.

The UN agency has pointed out that despite the huge growth in container movements, (from zero in 1965 to 225.3 million in 2000), there is still no global set of rules governing responsibility for cargo carried by combined transport operations involving ships, rail and roads.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANZ Fischler has given himself a tough job; trying to persuade dairy farmers it is time to expose themselves to unfettered world markets when prices are at rock bottom, while facing hostility to further CAP reform from some European Union governments, notably France.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CZECH Republic’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has launched an investigation, which is expected to lead it to imposing temporary safeguard duties on a range of flat non-alloy steel and iron products, as well as bars, rods, angles, shapes, tubes and pipes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Bank and the World Trade Organisation have established a new international fund – the Standards and Trade Development Facility – which will help developing countries implement the strict and complex standards that are erected for the food trade by bodies such as Codex Alimentarius.…

BY RICHARD HURST
TRADE and Investment South Africa Transport Industries – a Pretoria government unit – and the country’s Department of Trade and Industry have announced that they will jointly launch a council to seek export opportunities in the railway equipment market, notably crushed stone ballast.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LEGAL formalities for creating the Single European Sky are approaching completion. The initial proposal from the European Commission for integrating the EU’s national air traffic control authorities into a continental ATC system has now been approved by the EU member governments and, in slightly amended form, by the European Parliament.…

Keith Nuthall
THE ARGENTINE government has launched the first stage of disputes proceedings at the World Trade Organisation, in a case against the European Union, which it accuses of breaking WTO rules through its wine-making regulations.

Notably, Buenos Aires says that the EU Regulation EC/1493/1999 includes requirements on oenological practices that are “more trade restrictive than they should and could be.”…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has joined forces with Australia, Argentina, Canada, New Zealand and other large drinks exporters, in proposing that a register of geography-linked names of wines and spirits – now being discussed at the World Trade Organisation – should be voluntary, carrying little legal weight.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEMBER governments of the World Trade Organisation have claimed that Taiwan’s continuing vast capacity to copy CD’s, is a sign that it is failing to honour its commitments to abide by the WTO’s TRIPs agreement (trade related aspects of intellectual property rights).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENTS attending the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg agreed to restore the world’s depleted fisheries by 2015.…