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The following is a 26 October 2012 release by the World Trade Organization.Following a statement by the Chairman of the Working Party on the Accession of Lao PDR, the General Council will consider the Working Party Report in WT/ACC/LAO/45 and Addenda 1 and 2. This release is available in its…
The following is excerpted from a 25 October 2012 press release by the World Customs Organization.A Customs enforcement operation spanning 16 African countries led to the seizure of more than 82 million doses of illicit medicines including antimalarial and antiparasitic drugs, antibiotics, cough…
The following is excerpted from a 24 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the meeting of ACP Ministers of Trade in Brussels on 24 October 2012, said the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) members “is one of the more…
The following is excerpted from a 26 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Tajikistan’s accession to the WTO cleared a major hurdle on 26 October 2012 when the Working Party on its accession approved, ad referendum, the package spelling out its terms of entry to the organization.The…
The following is excerpted from a 23 October 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.At the invitation of the Head of the Russian Federal Customs Service, Andrey Beliyaninov, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at the XIII International Exhibition and Conference on Customs…
The following is excerpted from a 24 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices, on 24 October 2012, reviewed reports by 32 members on anti-dumping actions taken during the first half of 2012, and considered more recent notifications of preliminary…
The following is excerpted from a 26 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.WTO members meeting as the General Council on 26 October 2012 have agreed to Laos joining the organization, paving the way for the southeast Asian country to become a member in early 2013.The deal — the…
The following is excerpted from a 23 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, on 23 October 2012, approved the final extension of the transition period — until end 2013 — for export subsidy programmes of 19 developing countries…
The following is from a 22 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.A new ten-delegation WTO grouping called Friends of Safeguards Procedures (FSP), at the Committee on Safeguards meeting on 22 October 2012, expressed concern about “procedural, transparency, and due process issues”…