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Trade Policy Review: El Salvador — Liberalization has moved forward but El Salvador’s fiscal privileges still distort economic incentives, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices published on 10 February 2010.

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Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the WTO Symposium on the Agreement on Government Procurement on 11 February 2010, said the agreement “appears to be in the process of taking on relatively greater importance in the constellation of the WTO Agreements.” He welcomed the approval the other day of India’s request for observership as “an important [...]

Industrial goods negotiations focus on “priority” non-tariff barriers — The chairman of the Negotiating Group on industrial goods (NAMA), ambassador Luzius Wasescha, of Switzerland, reports on a “good discussion” on the priority NTBs (autos, electronics, remanufacturing and labelling of textiles, clothing, footwear and travel goods), and the Horizontal Mechanism to prevent and solve disputes, after [...]

Liberalization has moved forward but El Salvador’s fiscal privileges still distort economic incentives, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices published on 10 February 2010.

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Germany has donated EUR 1 million (about CHF 1.5 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) for the year 2010. Germany is one of the biggest donors to this fund. With this latest donation, its total contribution to the various WTO trust funds has reached CHF 17.2 million.

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Norway has donated NOK 20 million (about CHF 3.5 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) for the years 2010 and 2011. With this new contribution, Norway’s participation in the DDAGTF amounts to CHF 19.5 million. Norway is one of the biggest contributors to the DDAGTF.

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Trade Policy Review: Malaysia — Further trade-related reforms would help Malaysia’s long-term economic growth, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices published on 25 January 2010.

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Farm talks start 2010 quietly but more substance lies ahead — The first agriculture negotiations sessions of the year on 21 and 22 January 2010 saw further discussions of technical work, as delegates prepared to take up more substantive issues 10 days later.

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Farm talks start 2010 quietly but more substance lies ahead — The first agriculture negotiations sessions of the year on 21 and 22 January 2010 saw further discussions of technical work, as delegates prepared to take up more substantive issues 10 days later.

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The WTO has launched a discussion forum in the run-up to publication of the 2010 World Trade Report in July. The theme of this year’s report is “Trade in Natural Resources: Challenges in Global Governance”.

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