The relationship between trade policy and climate policy needs to improve in the future, in particular with a view towards implementing the Paris Agreement. With the aim of making trade policy supportive of climate action, this working paper discusses the relationship between the regimes established by the World Trade Organization …
us president George W Bush's position on a recent trade agreement with Jordan sends mixed signals on the issue of whether his administration will enforce the use of labour and environmental safeguards in trade relations. The us-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (fta) was negotiated in October 2000. It is considered
The Swiss take pride in their lush landscapes, and Bolly wood buffs know why. The breathtaking alpine pastures of this small mountain country have replaced strife-torn Sri nagar and polluted and overpopulated Ooty as a backdrop for frolicking fantasies as our buxom actresses and burly actors join Heidi in yodeling …
A welcome stepM S Swaminathan i am happy that at last the Lok Sabha has passed the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Bill. This is a major step in incorporating the ethics and equity provisions of the convention on biological diversity in a sui generis system of varietal …
IT is an irony that the Group of 77 (G-77) - a caucus of over 130 developing nations in the United Nations (uN) system - originally created at the first UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the only global forum where meaningful global trade negotiations take place. The …
the book in review is a survey of the balance sheet for India from the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (gatt) negotiations. Dubey proceeds chapter-wise to analyse the important agreements signed in the Uruguay Round like the General Agreement on Trade in Services (gats), Trade Related …
HELL bath no fury like the US scorned! Venezuela and Brazil have touched on the raw the Big Brother of the First World, by evoking an anti-US ruling from the one-year old World Trade Organization'(WTO). The organisation came into existence on January 1, 1995, as a successor to GATT (the …
THE SOVEREIGNITY SLOGAN OF LATE in India, the concept of swadeshi is being rethought and re-discussed in the menacing and all-pervading shadow of Cargil, Enron and Kentucky Fried Chicken. In today's context of 'global village', 'information age' and global finance, to some it may seem anachronistic that the slogan of …
THERE are a variety of ways in which the North could support development in and by the South. I sometimes refer to them as the "AT&T-; mechanisms": aid, trade and technology transfer. All of these have been on the Northern agenda for decades now. The United Nations Conference on Environment …
TRADE concerns inevitably win over environmental imperatives: that's how most observers cynically view the common agenda for environment signed between India and the us on April 18, despite the us undersecretary of state for global affairs, Timothy Wirth's emphasis that his government would not use environmental issues as a lever …
THE range and volume of environmental publications available these days creates an impression that the major environmental problems faced by the world are being tackled efficiently. Research has made it possible for humans to grasp not only full-blown environmental problems, but also to detect potential ones. The evolving status of …
THE confidence of the Narasimha Rao government to change the Indian Patent Act, 1970 -- despite the smooth and convinced air is had assumed for so long -- was shaken on March 22, when its proposed Patent (Amendment) Bill, 1995 was passed by the Lok Sabha by a wafer-thin majority …
THE "liberalised" drug policy announced in September last year by the government came as a blow to the already overburdened consumers. A new Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), issued on January 7, has removed 96 bulk drugs from the ambit of price control. Now that the increase in the prices …
DO CIVILISATION and environmental devastation have to be synonymous? Going by the mess Earth is in, it would seem so. Environment has, however, become a buzzword, and behind all the hoopla that such an honour brings are pockets of concern and damage control. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), …
THE united stand of the labour ministers of the nonaligned and other developing countries to denounce the post-Uruguay round attempt to introduce a social clause to link up international trade with labour standards, although commendable, is still a political riddle. This Delhi Declaration's seemingly aggressive stance, following from the 5th …
GATT seems to have done a lot of good to Glaxo. Consequent to changes in us patent laws, the company's patent for its renowned anti-ulcer drug Zantac has won an extension up to July 25, 1997. That gives an 18-month reprieve -- and nearly $5 billion in additional sales -- …
WASHINGTON is in the grip of a GATT fever with the American Congress and the Clinton administration locked eyeball to eyeball over Congressional approval of the Uruguay round. So far, President Clinton and his crew have tried in vain to convince Congressmen that the multilateral trade agreement is the best …
IN A significant shift in research emphasis, Indian scientists in the drugs and pharmaceuticals sector are focusing on product development rather than the usual process development. The government has launched a "Drug Mission" designed to involve industry in drug development from the very beginning. "We are equipping ourselves for the …
INDIAN exporters had pinned their hopes on gaining entry into the Japanese rice market in the wake of the compulsory opening up under GATT. But the Japanese Food Agency has recently communicated that they would consider placing India in their shopping list only if its rice were free from harmful …
The US dairy industry is having second thoughts about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Jim Bar, the head of the National Milk Producers' Federation, has complained that GATT, as currently structured, is a net loss to North American dairy producers, in a letter to US diminutive but …
THE United States has once again lost the battle to use trade measures to determine not only tuna fishing methods but also the impact of tuna fishing on other species. In response to a complaint by the Netherlands and the European Community, the second panel report of the General Agreement …
