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The following is excerpted from a 30 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee is to shift its focus towards broader themes common to the specific issues that have dominated its work so far, in the hope that those issues can be…
The following is excerpted from a 30 November 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.Trade diplomats and practitioners from 13 Asian economies participated this week in a workshop on WTO dispute settlement in New Delhi. Hosted by the Centre for WTO Studies at the Indian Institute of…
The following is excerpted from a 30 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.At a special meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 30 November 2012, the United States rejected the first request by China for a panel on the dispute “United States – Countervailing and Anti…
The following is excerpted from a 26 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.At the Council for Trade in Goods meeting on 26 November, 23 delegations issued a joint statement urging Ukraine to withdraw its request to renegotiate tariff commitments on a wide range of products. Several…
The following is excerpted from a 30 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 30 November 2012, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal…
The following is excerpted from a 29 November 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.A global enforcement operation targeting drugs organized by the World Customs Organization (WCO) in close cooperation with Japan Customs resulted in the seizure by Customs officials of 220 kg of…
The following is excerpted from a 26 November 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in presenting the Richard Snape Lecture on 26 November in Melbourne, Australia, said that: “The rising weight of influence of emerging economies has shifted the…
The following is excerpted from a 22 November 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.A global Customs operation spanning three continents led to over 70 major seizures of endangered flora and fauna and their derivatives, such as live tortoises, rhino horns, ivory tusks, a leopard skin…
The following is excerpted from a 19 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The “International Trade and Market Access” interactive tool, launched by the WTO on 19 November 2012, provides a new dynamic presentation for all WTO data on merchandise and commercial services trade as…