Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in a speech at an event entitled “Back in business: the WTO after Bali and the future of the global trade agenda” organized by the International Chamber of Commerce UK and TheCityUK in London on 8 April 2014, said that after Bali, there is now “a tangible feeling (...)
On 8 April 2014, the United States filed a Notice of Appeal regarding the Panel Report in “China – Measures related to the Exportation of Rare Earths, Tungsten, and Molybdenum” (WT/DS431).
On 8 April 2014, China filed a Notice of Appeal regarding the Panel Report in “United States – Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Measures on Certain Products from China” (WT/DS449).
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo told the Trade Negotiations Committee on 7 April 2014 that “it’s time to shift things up a gear” in developing a work programme for the conclusion of the Doha Round. “We must now move into a second phase, focused on resolving the problems that we have been (...)
The revised WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) entered into force on 6 April 2014, some two years after the Protocol amending the Agreement was originally adopted. The parties to the revised GPA will see gains in market access of an estimated US$ 80 billion to US$ 100 billion (...)
«پيام كارفرمايان»، ويژة اصلاح اساسنامه كانون عالي انجمنهاي صنفي كارفرمايي ايران (كعاصكا)، با يادآوري اين تحليل دكتر سيد جواد طباطبايي، فيلسوف برجسته ايران، مدعاي خود را مطرح كرد كه ده سال پيش خاطر نشان ساخته بود: «مسأله بسيار مهم اين است كه بلوغ و وضع اجتماعي ما هنوز به جايي نرسيده كه بتواند دستگاه مفاهيمي را در اختيار ما بگذارد تا (...)
The theme of the 2014 Public Forum, to be held at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva on 1-3 October, is “Why trade matters to everyone”. Participants interested in organizing sessions at the Forum are invited to submit their proposals by 30 May (...)
Consultations with members have revealed that most are reluctant to proceed with the negotiations on a multilateral register of geographical indications for wines and spirits until a clearer picture emerges on the Doha Round as a whole, the talks’ chairperson Alfredo Suescum reported on 1 April (...)
WTO members discussed how services should be addressed in the post-Bali work programme when they met on 1 April 2014 for the first formal meeting of the services negotiations since the December 2013 Bali Ministerial Conference.
WTO members welcomed the substantial progress made by Algeria in amending its trade regime and expressed strong support for the country’s prompt accession to the WTO in a meeting of the Working Party on Algeria’s membership negotiations on 31 March (...)