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The following is from a 23 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), on 23 October 2012, established a panel to examine a complaint by the United States against China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duties on US automobiles. In the Boeing dispute, it…
The following is excerpted from a 19 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.WTO members meeting as the committee dealing with food safety and animal and plant health agreed on 18–19 October 2012 to accelerate work on how to defuse disputes with the help of its chairperson.They aim to…
The following is excerpted from an 18 October news item by the World Trade Organization.On 18 October 2012, the WTO Appellate Body issued its report in the case “China – Countervailing and Anti-Dumping Duties on Grain Oriented Flat-Rolled Electrical Steel from the United States” (DS414).This item is…
The following is excerpted from a 17 October 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 23 October 2012, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal…
The following is excerpted from a 15 October 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.The Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, gave a lecture on 15 October 2012 to WCO scholars at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. Participants from the Japan-WCO…
The following is excerpted from a 15 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Mexico notified the WTO Secretariat on 15 October 2012 of a request for consultations with China concerning several measures allegedly taken by China to support the production and exports of clothing and…
The following is excerpted from a 12 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organiztion.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on 12 October 2012, said that “based on current information, and holding a number…
The following is excerpted from a 10 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Orgaization.At the meeting of the Sub-Committee of Least-Developed Countries on 10 October 2012, many members said they were encouraged by a WTO Secretariat report that the value of LDCs’ total exports (goods and…
The following is excerpted from an 8 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Japan today (8 October 2012) announced it has donated USD 104,698 (about CHF 110,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) a programme set up to help developing countries improve their…