At the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee on 20-21 March 2012, WTO members discussed 66 draft regulations that affect trade. These ranged from requirements on motor vehicles to alcoholic drinks, tobacco, cosmetics and electrical (...)
The fourth review of the trade policies and practices of the Philippines takes place on 20 and 22 March 2012. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of the Philippines.
خوانندهي عزيز مسؤليت اجتماعي بنگاه(ماب) و مسؤليت كسب و كار براي حقوق بشردر سالهاي اخير، در سراسر جهان به كانون توجه فزاينده بدل شده است. كمپانيها از زواياي مختلف با اين موضوع مواجه هستند: ماب فضاي بيشتر و بيشتري در رسانه در اختيار ميگيرد؛ سازمانهاي مصرفكنندگان به شكل روزافزون متقاضي اطلاعات در مورد شرايط توليد و راههاي بازار (...)
يكي ديگر از ابزارهاي كمك آموزشي عرف پارلماني يا قانون پارلماني كه در 29 آوريل 1945 در ادارهي ثبت اختراعات ايالات متحده آمريكا به نام مخترع آن، «ادوين هيزل»، به ثبت رسيده، راهنماي جيبي قانون پارلماني است. تا كنون چهار ابزار كمك آموزشي عرف پارلماني كه در اين اداره به ثبت رسيدهاند، در اين شبكه معرفي شده است. در اين نوشته، «راهنماي جيبي (...)
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 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 (...)
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.