The European Union has presented a plan to the World Trade Organisation to help deadlocked countries find middle ground in the stalled Doha round of trade negotiations.
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Trade minister Craig Emerson has said the world must have a “red hot go” at delivering a conclusion to the Doha Development Round in 2011. “Our sense is there is not a lot of movement and there’s not much time—in fact, very little time—to go before we won’t be able to hit the 2011 deadline,” [...]
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has used her state visit to the USA to pressure President Barack Obama to conclude the Doha Round of trade talks after a decade of stalled attempts. During her visit to Washington, Gillard met with Obama to discuss trade agreements between the two nations, among other priority topics. In a speech [...]
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Concluding the Doha Round is the agenda Australian Minister for Trade Dr Craig Emerson is pursuing at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Switzerland. The meeting, running from 26-30 January in Davos-Klosters, will be attended by politicians from the G20 and other key countries—including more than 30 heads of state and government, the chairs [...]
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World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy has forecast a rise for world trade of around 9.5 percent this year, following last year’s slump of 12 percent. The WTO director-general is adamant that WTO members are unwilling to “turn their backs on policies that helped integrate them into the world economy”, but called on the USA [...]
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US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation Michael Punke said it was vital for for China, India and Brazil to step up to their responsibilities as major world economic players to achieve a breakthrough in the Doha Round of trade negotiations. Stalled since last year, the Doha Round talks stumbled over issues such as agriculture [...]
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World Trade Organisation director-general Pascal Lamy says the Doha Round is about 80 percent there, referring to the global trade liberalisation deal currently stalled but “technically doable”. Lamy indicated the final 20 percent would be about ironing out differences in agriculture and making trade between rich and poor nations fair and equitable. “That probably has [...]
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Ending a dispute that’s been running for 16 years, Minister for Trade Simon Cream has welcomed a breakthrough deal that will cut the European Union (EU) banana import tariff, alongside a related agreement to provide deeper tariff cuts on the importation of tropical products. Crean said the deals on bananas and tropical products would generate [...]
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Minister for Trade Simon Crean has called for early political engagement in 2010 to conclude the Doha Round, after last week’s discussions at the Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference. “While the purpose of this WTO Ministerial meeting was not to hold detailed Doha negotiations, Ministers have committed to meet again early next year, to enable us [...]
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The Federal Government has ordered a Productivity Commission review of Australia’s bilateral and regional trade agreements, which will measure our trade and investment performance and identify any barriers. While the Rudd government supports multilateral deals such as the Doha Round, Australia’s focus on bilateral and regional trade and investment has resulted in six Free Trade [...]
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