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The following is excerpted from an 18 January 2013 news item by the World Trade Organization.Chairperson John Adank told agriculture negotiators on 18 January 2013 that more focused discussions should start in mid-February as members started the new year looking at recently compiled data and…
The following is from the 20 January 2013 edition of Journal of Commerce.The U.S. Department of Commerce has begun investigating allegedly subsidized imports of shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, after determining that the Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries provided…
The following is excerpted from a January 2013 notice by the World Trade Organization.As set out in the procedures for the appointment of Directors-General (WT/L/509), as early as possible after the close of the one-month nomination period, candidates shall be invited to meet with Members at a…
The following is from the 17 January 2013 edition of Journal of Commerce. For C-TPAT, something has to change. The number of importers, carriers and other private companies involved in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism is virtually static. Too many importers are saying “no thanks” to…
The following is from the 18 January 2013 edition of the Financial Post.The federal government appears only weeks away from completing negotiations on a Canada-European Union free trade agreement that would be the country’s largest and most important international trade pact in a generation.The deal…
The following is excerpted from a 16 January 2013 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization. Director-General Pascal Lamy, during the round table discussion on “New Steps in Measuring Trade in Value Added” at the OECD, Paris on 16 January 2013, said the release by the WTO and OECD of…
The following is excerpted from a January 2013 media release by the World Customs Organization.A Leadership and Management Development (LMD) Workshop was conducted by the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Guangzhou, China, from 5-15 November, 2012. The workshop was delivered to 15 senior managers…
The following is excerpted from a 16 January 2013 press release by OECD.Business competitiveness and export performance are increasingly tied to countries’ integration into global production chains and a willingness to open markets to wider imports, according to preliminary international trade data…
The Aid for Trade Policy Dialogue will bring together a wide range of stakeholders from developing and developed countries to discuss how to continue delivering aid for trade results in a changing international environment for trade and development.This dialogue is organised by the OECD Development…