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Japan pushing bilateral, regional trade talks
Dec. 27, 2011 Japan has been advancing a series of trade talks recently to hammer out bilateral or regional free-trade agreements because it sees high-level economic partnerships as the key to revitalizing its stagnant economy. While announcing last month its plan to join multilateral talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a U.S.-led free-trade initiative, this [...]
Food security and the WTO
Foreign Policy in Focus December 21, 2011 By Karen Hansen-Kuhn Original Source At a World Social Forum event in 2006, Walden Bello warned that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was careening down a track to disaster. Civil society needed to insist that negotiators pull back before the Round went off a [...]
WTO Meeting Fails to Make Progress on Global Trade Negotiations
Bloomberg News December 17, 2011 By Jennifer M. Freedman Original Source The World Trade Organization wrapped up its ministerial meeting without deciding how to revive global commerce talks, focusing instead on welcoming Russia to the fold and securing a government-procurement accord. Efforts to reach an agreement during the Doha Round of trade talks have been [...]
Australia hails Doha breakthrough
The Australian By Matthew Franklin December 19, 2011 www.australian.com.au Original Source AUSTRALIA has claimed a breakthrough in talks to lift global trade, convincing the World Trade Organisation to embrace fresh negotiations among free-trading nations outside its long-stalled Doha round process. Trade Minister Craig Emerson has vowed Australia will move quickly to capitalise on the concession [...]
TPP negotiators mull schedule for 2012, admission process
The Mainichi Daily News (Japan)†December 10, 2011 Original Source KUALA LUMPUR (Kyodo) The chief negotiators of the U.S.-led Pacific free trade agreement have set next year’s schedule of meetings in a bid to speed up the progress of negotiations and strike a substantial deal by July while also discussing the procedure of accepting new [...]
Climate Talks Open Amid Funding Spat
The Wall Street Journal November 29, 2011 By DEVON MAYLIE Original Source Subsistence farmers in Africa, victims of changing weather patterns, are caught in a stormy global debate over a special climate fund for which few want to pay. Throughout the continent, farming groups are trying to adapt to seasons that are more unpredictable than [...]
Climate Talks Open Amid Funding Spat
The Wall Street Journal November 29, 2011 By DEVON MAYLIE Original Source Subsistence farmers in Africa, victims of changing weather patterns, are caught in a stormy global debate over a special climate fund for which few want to pay. Throughout the continent, farming groups are trying to adapt to seasons that are more unpredictable than [...]
Mercosur calls on Doha Round for an end of all farm export incentives by 2013
MercoPress†November 24, 2011 Original Source Meeting in Brasilia for two days of discussions the ministers from the six countries said it was ‘indispensable’ to conclude the WTO agriculture negotiations and eliminate all form of subsidies and incentives to farm produce exports by 2013. Brazilian minister Jorge Alberto Mendes Ribeiro acted as host and also [...]
APEC Meeting is Center Stage for Trade Talks
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Honolulu on November 8-13, with the Leaders meetings on the 12th and 13th, have become an important gathering of government officials interested in expanding international trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Its strengths lay in general meetings of the 21 member economies and hundreds of small group meetings that [...]
Doha deal could boost world exports $505 bln if revived -EU
Reuters October 31, 2011 By Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck Original Source BRUSSELS, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Moribund talks for a global accord to open up trade could boost world exports by more than half a trillion dollars a year if they were revived and completed, lifting global economic growth by 0.2 percent, an EU report said [...]
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