This report identifies options that negotiators and policy-makers could pursue in order to reach a permanent solution at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the problems some developing countries say they face when buying food at government-set (or government-administered) prices under their public stockholding programs for food security purposes. The …
Gridlock around Beijing has been a conspicuous problem as more Chinese buy private cars. Energy efficiency will also suffer as people shift from mass transit. The acknowledgment of difficulties by Zhang Laiwu, deputy minister for science and technology, comes as China has become the world
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well …
In early May, WTO delegates gave a mixed welcome to proposed exemptions for developing countries from new disciplines on subsidies that contribute to an over-sized fishing effort and an alarming decline in fish stocks around the world.
After months of speculation, Brazil and India have launched a WTO dispute against the EU and the Netherlands over the seizure of generic drugs in transit. The complainants requested dispute settlement consultations on 11 May, citing a raft of EU and Dutch regulations that allow customs officials to detain goods …
Just two days before trade sanctions were to be imposed in the cotton dispute, Brazil and the United States reached a compromise agreement, which may finally yield the subsidy reforms that Brasilia has been seeking from Washington for nearly a decade. The so-called
International transport, both aviation and maritime shipping, is a critical element of the global economy and trade. At the same time, it is also one of the main drivers of human-induced climate change. This background paper is intended to explore the many aspects of regulating international transport emissions in the …
NEW DELHI: India has opposed suggestion by some developed countries for more liberal trade in remanufactured goods or refurbished old products fearing it could harm the country
The initial sections underscore that the bias in fisheries policies towards an export led model has been at the cost of the environment and fishing communities, especially women. The authors then argue, by scrutinising key provisions, that the EU-India FTA further deepens this model and therefore is unlikely to ameliorate …
If tariffs were the big-ticket issue of trade disputes in an earlier decade, intellectual property rights (IPRs) are making for all the drama, standoffs and skulduggery in international negotiations today. Why are IPRs so crucial to the new economic order? To understand this one needs to come to terms with …
WHAT RICH COUNTRIES SAY AND WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO is worlds apart. At the just concluded round of discussions on ACTA, the controversial Anti- Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, in Lucerne in Switzerland, the countries trying to steamroller a plurilateral pact to tighten enforcement of global intellectual property (IP) rules made some …
WTO talks on trade in environmental goods are turning into a market access issue for developed countries T S Vishwanath / July 22, 2010, 0:46 IST There are some aspects in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations that do not catch the fancy of industry at large but hold the …
Paralysis at the political level continues to stymie attempts to move forward in the WTO Doha talks on farm trade, sources said, after a meeting on the controversial
This paper provides an overview of developments in food safety policy in major industrial countries and of economic analysis of this policy. It describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots …
The demands of global capital, mediated through the market, are increasingly driving the trajectory of advances in science. Today this acts as the principal barrier to the advance of science as a knowledge system that is designed to serve the needs of the people. The needs of a neo-liberal economic …
