The following is from a 27 September 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General of the WCO, and Philippe Amon, President and CEO of Sicpa, signed an agreement on 27 September 2012 concerning Sicpa’s contribution to the WCO capacity building programme.
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The following is from a 27 September 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.
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 duty measures on exports from China to the United States (DS437).
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The following is excerpted from a report issued by OECD.
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
The terms of Laos’ WTO membership were agreed by the countries negotiating with the least-developed nation on 28 September 2012, and now go for approval by all 157 current WTO members in the General Council on 26 October.
The following is excerpted from a 27 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.
The following is excerpted from a 24 September 2012 speech by Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in welcoming participants to WTO’s Public Forum 2012 on 24 September 2012, said: “While multilateralism is struggling in almost all spheres of global co-operation, I stand here before you with some optimism. We are after all gathered in the “house of trade”. An international house that rose out of the ashes of two World Wars and which took some 60 years to create.”
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The following is excerpted from a 21 September 2012 press release by the World Trade Organization.
Over 1,300 participants from civil society, universities, businesses and governments will take up the question of whether multilateralism is in crisis at the WTO’s annual Public Forum from 24 to 26 September.
The following is from the 25 September 2012 edition of American Shipper.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative on Monday submitted notification to the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body detailing the United States’ compliance with the WTO’s recommendations in the large civil aircraft dispute with the European Union related to U.S. government subsidies to Boeing.
The following is from a 20 September 2012 speech by Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.
Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing on 20 September 2012 said that “as an international community we must continue to fight protectionism, but in the WTO in particular, we must also fight policy fragmentation.”
