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The following is excerpted from a 10 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Orgaization.At the meeting of the Sub-Committee of Least-Developed Countries on 10 October 2012, many members said they were encouraged by a WTO Secretariat report that the value of LDCs’ total exports (goods and…
The following is excerpted from an 8 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Japan today (8 October 2012) announced it has donated USD 104,698 (about CHF 110,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) a programme set up to help developing countries improve their…
The following is excerpted from a 1 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Brookings Dialogue in Washington, D.C. on 1 October 2012, said that “the challenges of the future will be no less complex or challenging than…
The following is excerpted from a 3 October 2012 speech by DG Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, at the opening of the academic year of the Geneva Graduate Institute with Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on 3 October 2012, said: “In his work Development as Freedom…
The following is excerpted from a 3 October 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 3 October 2012, said that “we need to explore any and all options, small as they may be, for incremental progress on the negotiating agenda…
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The Group of 20 (G-20) developing countries, an alliance in the WTO agriculture talks, presented two new proposals on 28 September 2012, described as an effort to comply with instructions from the December…
The following is excerpted from a 28 September 2012 news item by the World Trade Organization.The terms of Laos’ WTO membership were agreed by the countries negotiating with the least-developed nation on 28 September 2012, and now go for approval by all 157 current WTO members in the General Council…
The following is from a 27 September 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.On behalf of the Director General of Egyptian Customs, Mohamed Elalhawy, on 27 September 2012 the Egyptian delegation to the WCO Harmonized System Committee presented the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya…
The following is excerpted from a 2 October 2012 report by the World Customs Organization.At the invitation of Namibia's Permanent Secretary of Finance, Ericah Shafudah, the Secretary General of the WCO, Kunio Mikuriya, visited Windhoek, Namibia on 1 and 2 October where he met Customs management and…