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Letter from U.S. textile importers to Chair of NAMA negotiations

Letter from the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel to the chair of the NAMA negotiations calling for tariff elimination in the textile sector. The letter is a response from another group of U.S. textile manufacturers calling for special treatment to protect the textile sector.

The Second Wave of the Access Crisis: Unaffordable AIDS Drug Prices... Again

A warning from Docotors Without Borders: A few years after the historic fall in first-line AIDS drug prices from over $10,000 to $175 per patient/year, people living with HIV/AIDS are again facing the possibility that life-saving drugs will be priced out of their reach.

IATP Staff Experts in Hong Kong

IATP staff in Hong Kong during the WTO Ministerial that are available for media interviews.

China, Agriculture and the World Trade Organization

China's accession into the WTO will likely result in major upheaval for rural residents.

Questions on NAMA for Hong Kong Ministerial

Questions prepared by the Chair of the NAMA negotiations to be addressed at the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference, 13-18 December, 2005.

EU Position on NAMA in Green Room, 27 November 2005

Non-paper from the EU stating its position on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) at green room meetings taking place prior to the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. The green rooms are being used to make further progress on the negotiations.

GATS Sectoral and Modal Objectives Revision 2

Referred to in Paragraph 2 of the GATS Draft Ministerial Text Revision 2

GATS Sectoral and Modal Objectives As Identified By Members Revision 1

The first version of the document referred to in para 2 of the draft GATS Ministerial text.

Chairman's Progress Report of the NAMA Negotiations, 22 November 2005

Progress Report by the Chair of the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations on the state of play of the negotiations. The report comes weeks before the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong.

Ten Ways to Fix Agricultural Trade

Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. The WTO Agreement on Agriculture has failed rural communities around the world. Its successor, now under negotiation, is set to perpetuate the failure. The following proposals are a basis for a new agricultural trade system.