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The following is excerpted from a 1 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.At the meeting of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) Committee on 1 November 2012, Korea reported some progress on technical discussions it hosted early in the week on expanding the current product…
The following is excerpted from a 1 November 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.Chinese Taipei has donated USD 100,000 (about CHF 93,300) to the WTO Trade Facilitation Needs Assessment Trust Fund. This new donation brings Chinese Taipei’s contribution to WTO trust funds up to CHF 1…
The following is excerpted from a 31 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Committee on Government Procurement, on 31 October 2012, approved requests by Indonesia and Montenegro, respectively, for observer status. The decisions bring to 25 governments the total number of…
The following is excerpted from a 27 October 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.At the invitation of the Head of Secretariat, Ms. Monica Bhatia, the Deputy Secretary General of the WCO, Sergio Mujica, attended the fifth meeting of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of…
The following is excerpted from a 31 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Government of Norway has disbursed NOK 19.5 million to the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a programme that works to contribute to poverty reduction in least-developed countries (LDCs) by helping…
The following is excerpted from a 31 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report on G-20 trade measures issued on 31 October 2012, said that “there has been a slowdown in the imposition of new trade restrictive measures by G-20 economies over…
The following is excerpted from a 31 October 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland, H.E. Joel Nhleko, deposited his country’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs…
The following is excerpted from a 30 October 2012 release by the World Trade Organization.The fourth review of the trade policies and practices of Israel takes place on 30 October and 1 November 2012. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of…
The following is excerpted from a 25 October 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.A Customs enforcement operation spanning 16 African countries led to the seizure of more than 82 million doses of illicit medicines including antimalarial and antiparasitic drugs, antibiotics, cough…