World Trade Organization
Background
The World Trade Organization (WTO), (OMC - French: Organisation mondiale du commerce, Spanish: Organización Mundial del Comercio), is an international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade. The WTO came into being on January 1, 1995, and is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which was created in 1947, and continued to operate for almost five decades as a de facto international organization.
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People's Daily Online
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Xinhua
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...via the WTO's current Doha round of trade talks should remember that the GATT-WTO framework has enabled world trade to grow more than thirtyfold since 1950, and has provided an insurance policy against protectionism. It is often forgotten today that passage...
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Newsweek
...shortage of examiners and a stack of complaints. This was not how it was meant to be. When India became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), it was obligated to install a new patent law that would be in line with global practices. Instead, it dithered...
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...that is its religion will willy-nilly be imposed on the developing world despite what Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz might say. The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old institution which had survived the Great Depression, “was in many...
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...stabilizing fragile and postconflict states are economic as well as political issues. They are already part of the international security and environmental dialogue. They must be included in the larger economic conversation as well. To guide multilateral problem-solving...
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...of President-elect Barack Obama’s genuinely internationalist ambitions, the United Nations will be an indispensable backdrop for the first time in recent decades for the success of US foreign policy. The key foreign policy issues of the Iraq and Afghanistan...
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The Moderate Voice
...than he'd probably like to give it. It wants nothing less than undivided attention, and to that end, like the protagonist of Chrissie Hynde's "Brass in Pocket," it will use its arms, style, and imagination. Starting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's relentless...
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The New Republic
...remain undecided due to persistent differences on certain sensitive issues, trade sources said Tuesday. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy originally suggested a meeting on Dec. 13-15, but now he has postponed that to Dec. 17-19, which, again, is just a...
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Xinhua
...participation in international organizations are also opening up. Last month in Lima, Peru, Taiwan’s former vice president, Lien Chan, was invited to join the APEC summit for the first time in the presence of China’s leader Hu Jintao. The two even held bilateral...
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China Post
...to be outside the WTO system, but we take a long-term view and are aware of our international responsibilities," Sergei Lavrov told a meeting of European businessmen. He said Russia views WTO membership as "a necessary condition for improving the commodity...
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RIA Novosti
...economic area with the EU and United States and would be ready for a visa-free regime with the EU "today," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. "I'm sure that in a globalising world...above all in the sphere of economic development, partnership...
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Independent Online
... The West Africa civil society platform of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) has said unrealistic timeline constituted the main constraint facing the Economic Community of West States (ECOWAS) in reaching a conclusion on the EPA. This position of th...
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AllAfrica.com
...in mid-December this year, as he was scheduled to speak to trade ministers of many countries, including Indian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, to assess their response. SSMs are norms which will allow the country to impose additional import duty on farm products...
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Rediff
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AlphaGalileo,org
...citizen, highly moralised and regulated, but also highly materially differentiated despite the common rights everyone should enjoy from Helsinki to Hanoi. The (implicit) promise to the developing world that adoption of the neoliberal model of good governance...
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