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The following is excerpted from an 8 July 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Heads of Agency of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) – Aid for Trade in action for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) — are meeting in Geneva on 8 July during the Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade…
The following is excerpted from an 8 July 2013 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the three-day Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade at the WTO on 8 July 2013, said: “Aid for Trade is making a difference. But it can make more of a…
The following is excerpted from an 8 July 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.In a joint statement, 27 governments and organizations at the Fourth Aid for Trade Global Review on 8 July 2013 underlined the importance of providing technical assistance to trade facilitation programmes of…
The following is excerpted from a 5 July 2013 blog by Joseph E. Stiglitz of the World Economic Forum.Though nothing has come of the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round of global trade negotiations since they were launched almost a dozen years ago, another round of talks is in the works…
The following is excerpted from a 20 June 2013 news release by the World Customs Organization.The Leaders of the G8 released their Communiqué in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on 18 June 2013.The Leaders agreed actions on trade, tax and transparency (“3Ts”) to support growth, prosperity and economic…
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has welcomed the launch of negotiations between the European Union and the United States on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which he said would deliver potentially very significant benefits for the global trading system and a boost for the world…
The following is excerpted from a 13 June 2013 press release by the World Customs Organization. The Embassy of the Republic of Albania deposited Albania’s instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures (Revised Kyoto Convention)…
The following is excerpted from a 17 June 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report on G-20 trade measures issued on 17 June 2013, said that “more than 100 trade-restrictive measures were implemented by G-20 economies over the past seven months…
The following is a 13 June 2013 news item from the World Customs Organization.Now available the Classification Decisions taken at the last Session of the Harmonized System Committee (51st Session) in March 2013 : the classification rulings, as well as the amendments to the Explanatory Notes and to…