The rise of key emerging economies and “trade in tasks”, increasing inter-dependency, expanded trade ties and a more deeply shared interest in a well-functioning trading system pose a number of questions for how policies should be handled, Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Japan Institute of (...)
With only one bilateral negotiation outstanding, and a number of new laws announced, Laos could join the WTO by the end of the year, the chairperson Yi Xiaozhun, China’s ambassador, told the working party of delegations negotiating the membership (...)
The WTO and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have signed a letter of understanding to develop statistics on trade in value added. Among other things, the two organizations will produce a publicly-available database of trade flows estimated in value-added (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 23 March 2012, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
The Negotiating Group on Market Access for Non-Agricultural products resumed the negotiation on tariffs after four years of work on non-tariff barriers, and the chairman, ambassador Luzius Wasescha, of Switzerland, said he would continue consultations with Members in small groups to design a (...)
After four years of negotiations and a year of work by WTO members on implementation measures and data collection, the WTO launched on 14 March 2012 a new publically available database on non-reciprocal preferential schemes.
گزارش هزار و هفتاد و پنج صفحهاي «كميتهي كارشناسان كاربست كوانسيونها و توصيهنامهها»ي سازمان بينالمللي كار (س.ب.ك) به زبانهاي انگليسي، فرانسه و اسپانيايي، در وبسايت اين سازمان در اينحا منتشر شده است. اين گزارش، به نوعي، نامهي اعمال كشورهاي عضو اين سازمان در زمينهي رعايت كنوانسيونهاي مصوب است و قرار است در يكصد و يكمين نشست (...)
On 13 March 2012, the United States, the European Union and Japan requested consultations with China under the dispute settlement system concerning the latter’s restrictions on export of various forms of rare earths, tungsten and (...)
On 13 March 2012, Ukraine requested consultations with Australia under the dispute settlement system concerning the latter’s laws and regulations that impose trademark restrictions and other plain packaging requirements on tobacco (...)
WTO Deputy Director-General Alejandro Jara, in a speech at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on 13 March 2012, reported on progress in informal consultations to enhance efficiency of the panel (...)