The following is excerpted from a 27 March 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
The WTO agriculture talks are now ready to discuss the substance of a proposal to loosen price support disciplines for developing countries’ public stocks and domestic food aid, chairperson John Adank said on 27 March 2013.
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http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news13_e/agng_27mar13_e.htm
The following is excerpted from a 2 April 2013 news article by the International Chamber of Commerce.
The following is excerpted from a 26 March 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
Costa Rica’s and Thailand’s domestic support policies for rice continued to raise concerns in the WTO Agriculture Committee on 26 March 2013 when members also considered ways to improve the committee’s work.
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http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news13_e/agcom_26mar13_e.htm
The following is excerpted from a 26 March 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
The 2013 Public Forum, the WTO’s largest annual outreach event for civil society, academia, business, the media, governments, parliamentarians and inter-governmental organizations, will be on 1–3 October in Geneva, with the theme “Expanding Trade through Innovation and the Digital Economy”.
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The following is excerpted from a 26 March 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
Following Indonesia’s objection, on 26 March 2013 the Dispute Settlement Body, which comprises all WTO members, deferred the establishment of a panel — requested by the United States — to examine a dispute on importation of horticultural products, animals and animal products.
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The Order and Statement of Reasons issued on 27 March 2013 are available on the CITT website:
http://www.citt.gc.ca/dumping/requests/orders/rd2m002_e.asp
OECD Trade Policy Papers No. 146 Export Restrictions: Benefits of Transparency and Good Practices by Osvaldo R. Agatiello and Barbara Fliess is now available on the OECD website at:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/trade/export-restrictions_5k49czl4c5kh-en
The following is excerpted from a 22 March 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.
Fraud involving horsemeat in Europe, continuing concern about Indonesia’s port closure, Japanese pesticide limits for sesame, and perennial concerns related to mad cow disease were among the many issues discussed by the WTO committee dealing with food safety and animal and plant health, 21–22 March 2013.
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The following is excerpted from a 25 March 2013 news release by the World Customs Organization.
The WCO's Permanent Technical Committee (PTC), in its 60th year of existence, held its 199th/200th Sessions in Brussels from 18 to 22 March 2013. More than 100 high level delegates, representing WCO Members and observers from international organizations and the private sector, gathered to discuss strategic and technical Customs matters.
The following is excerpted from a 25 March 2013 news release by the World Customs Organization.
The World Customs Organization, under the sponsorship of the Government of Finland, organized a two-day National Policy Dialogue, in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was held on the 18th and 19th of March 2013. This top level event was part of the ongoing implementation of the WCO Capacity Building Strategy under the project entitled "Building Trade Capacity through Customs Modernization in the East and Southern Africa Region".
