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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…
The following is excerpted from a 3 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the opening of the academic year of the Geneva Graduate Institute with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on 3 October 2012, said: “In his work Development as Freedom…
The following is excerpted from a 3 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 3 October 2012, said that “we need to explore any and all options, small as they may be, for incremental progress on the negotiating agenda…
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Group of 20 (G-20) developing countries, an alliance in the WTO agriculture talks, presented two new proposals on 28 September 2012, described as an effort to comply with instructions from the December…
The following is excerpted from a 1 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Brookings Dialogue in Washington, D.C. on 1 October 2012, said that “the challenges of the future will be no less complex or challenging than…
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.On 28 September 2012, the Chairman of the National Board of Revenue, Dr. Nasir Uddin Ahmad, deposited Bangladesh’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and…
The following is excerpted from a 27 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The European Union notified the WTO today, 27 September 2012, of its intention to request the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) to grant authorization “to take countermeasures” against the United States for an…
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.At its meeting on 28 September 2012, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) agreed to establish a panel on Australia’s measures on plain packaging of tobacco products (DS434) and another one on countervailing…
The following is excerpted from a 27 September 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.Over 230 delegates representing WCO Members, the academic world, international organizations, the private sector, donor organizations and other interested parties attended the 7th WCO Conference on the…