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Overview of the European Communities position on the TRIPs Agreement.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. Inefficient and unnecessary import and export procedures impede trade flows. Industry worldwide is looking to the WTO to simplify, harmonize and automate procedures, reduce documentation, and increase transparency.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. The EC and its member States believe that the time has come for the WTO to establish a multilateral framework of rules governing international investment, with the objective of securing a stable and predictable climate for foreign direct investment world-wide.
This report examines the theories, impacts and institutions of world trade, outlines current proposals for new trade negotiations in various different sectors and assesses the influence of transnational corporations.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. The extent to which existing WTO rules accommodate trade measures for environmental purposes could still be usefully clarified.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. The EC and their member States are of the view that the time has come for the WTO to begin negotiations on a basic framework of binding principles and rules on competition law and policy.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. WTO Members are committed to further reducing obstacles to trade in services in line with the principle of progressive liberalization.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. This note identifies below a limited number of issues, currently under discussion or negotiation, which could be ripe for decision at Seattle, and whose adoption could improve prospects for the launch of a round.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. Leaving government procurement outside the scope of the multilateral trading system remains a costly omission with real trade effects.
Preparations for the 1999 Ministerial Conference. A new round should provide benefits to developing countries and assist their integration in the multilateral trading system, via enhanced trade and investment flows. The specific problems of least-developed countries (LDCs) should be given particular attention.
Abstract of a FoodNet presentation originally given at the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, July 2000.
To help consumers find turkeys raised sustainably without the routine use of antibiotics, as well as certified organic and heritage turkeys, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) have launched a fully updated Eat Well Guide at www.EatWellGuide.org.
A background paper issued November 10 in Doha, Qatar, where ministers from the member countries of the World Trade Organization are meeting in hopes of launching new global trade negotiations, in which USTR outlines its proposal to extend by ten years to 2016 when the least-developed countries have to meet their patent obligations under TRIPs.
Earth Summit 2002 -- A New Deal, represents the drawing together of ideas, experiences and expectations in preparation for the 10 year review of the first Earth Summit in Rio, 1992.
A new project, EOSD,intends to monitor the sustainable development of Canada's forests from space. The project will support, with space based technology,
Pax Americana is over. Challenges from Vietnam and the Balkans to the Middle East and September 11 have revealed the limits of American supremacy. Will the United States learn to fade quietly, or will U.S. conservatives resist and thereby transform a gradual decline into a rapid and dangerous fall?
Changes to minor patch types in forested landscapes may have large consequences for forest biodiversity. The effects of forest management and environment on these secondary patch types are often poorly understood.
This paper analyzes a dynamic model of protection and environmental policy in a small trading developing country.