The following is excerpted from a 16 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 16 November 2012, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially called an “airgram”.

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The following is excerpted from a 5 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.

The following is excerpted from an 8 November 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.

At the invitation of the Director General of Customs, Alain Fred Pépin Bonezouï, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Bangui, Central African Republic from 8-9 November 2012 to garner more political support for Customs modernization in the country and in the region.

The following is excerpted from an 8 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.

The European Union and 10 Latin American countries signed an agreement on 8 November 2012 settling the longest-running series of disputes in the history of the multilateral trading system.

The following is excerpted from a 7 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.

The Committee on Trade and Development, on 7 November 2012, discussed preparations for the fourth Aid for Trade Global Review and reported progress in implementing Aid for Trade projects on the ground.

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The following is excerpted from a 2 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.

The 2012 Advanced Course on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, held at the WTO headquarters in Geneva and jointly organized by the Agriculture and Commodities Division and the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation of the WTO, concluded on 2 November 2012.

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The following is excerpted from a 6 November 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) welcomes the Chair’s Statement by Leaders attending the 9th Summit of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic under the theme “Friends for Peace, Partners for Prosperity” which highlights the importance of implementing WCO instruments and tools to promote trade facilitation.

The following is excerpted from a 5 November 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.

The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, has been listed in Global Tax 50, the International Tax Review’s annual selection of individuals and organizations they believe have made a substantial impact on tax practice and administration in the last 12 months.

The following is excerpted from a 6 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.

Innovation is essential for raising living standards, and intellectual property has an important role to play provided an appropriate balance is struck and governments act to help smaller players, the WTO council on intellectual property heard on 7 November 2012.

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The following is excerpted from a 5 November 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.