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Trade Diversion (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Worried that the WTO might fall into the background of the international policy scene as the Doha round slips into a coma? Jump-start interest by having it host disputes over exchange rates , and toss sovereign wealth funds into the mix, just to be safe. I should probably read Aaditya Mattoo and Jose-Luis Guasch's proposal , but I'm skeptical of its feasibility.
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Sify (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Washington: World trade negotiators need to bounce back quickly from a failed meeting in July to have any chance of reaching a deal by the end of the year, the head of the World Trade Organization said on Friday. "The good news is that they want to re-engage," WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said in an interview, referring to India and the United States, whose differences on agriculture...
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Western Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... meeting, Gillon said the proposal was part of a compromise paper tabled by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that supposedly included the “middle” position on many of the areas of disagreement in the negotiations. The special products exemption was not the worst of the Lamy paper and was not at the center of the collapse of the late-July ministerial that was supposed to get...
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Southwest Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... meeting, Gillon said the proposal was part of a compromise paper tabled by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that supposedly included the “middle” position on many of the areas of disagreement in the negotiations.The special products exemption was not the worst of the Lamy paper and was not at the center of the collapse of the late-July ministerial that was supposed to get the...
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Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... meeting, Gillon said the proposal was part of a compromise paper tabled by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that supposedly included the “middle” position on many of the areas of disagreement in the negotiations.The special products exemption was not the worst of the Lamy paper and was not at the center of the collapse of the late-July ministerial that was supposed to get the...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... next week in Geneva to pick up the threads. Top officials of the World Trade Organisation, like Pascal Lamy, had also contacted Mr. Nath after the onset of the latest impasse. Maintaining that the Doha Round had not collapsed, Mr. Nath told journalists here that the talks would “revive” at the official level in any case.Asked if the U.S. or the West now expected New Delhi to “deliver”...
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Delta Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... meeting, Gillon said the proposal was part of a compromise paper tabled by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy that supposedly included the “middle” position on many of the areas of disagreement in the negotiations. The special products exemption was not the worst of the Lamy paper and was not at the center of the collapse of the late-July ministerial that was supposed to get...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
NEW DELHI: World Trade Organisation Director General Pascal Lamy’s reported statement that the last round of trade talks successfully dealt with 17 of the 20 issues has provoked the Communist Party of India the Centre to issue a white ...
