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| | World Trade Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international, multilateral organization which sets the rules for the global trading system and resolves disputes between its member states, all of whom are signatories to its about 30 agreements. | | | It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995. | | | Many believe that free trade is not the right way to make people's lives more prosperous but only grants the rich the means to become richer through the loss of the general population. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization
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| | [16 Feb 2000] TAD/1912 : DIRECTOR-GENERAL SAYS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION IS BACK ON TRACK FOLLOWING RECENT FAILURE OF ITS SEATTLE CONFERENCE |
| | Liberalization of trade is a powerful instrument for growth, but the pace and level of it must account for States priorities and levels of development. | | | In the interactive dialogue which followed, UNCTAD was told that for world trade to be governed effectively, it must have a global governing body, and so the WTO must become universal. | | | In that context, it was emphasized that article 12 of the organizations charter sought to establish universality of the body and stated quite clearly that no State should be barred from the organization and its negotiations. |
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2000/20000216.tad1912.doc.html
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| | WTO NEWS - Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank group, made the following statement on the occasion |
| | Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank group, made the following statement on the occasion of the WTO General Council meeting on coherence, in Geneva on 13 May 2003. | | | The WTO, the IMF and the World Bank are cooperating to support the full engagement of developing countries in global trade negotiations to produce an outcome that favours the expansion of their trade. | | | Trade is vital not only for the direct benefits it brings, but also for increasing the flows of financial and real investment resources to developing countries which generate the income growth and job opportunities that help raise people out of poverty and make economies more resilient to shocks. |
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http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres03_e/pr341_e.htm
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| | Issues No.160 |
| | For over half a century the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and then the World Trade Organization (WTO) have played a key part in reducing barriers to trade, strengthening international laws, and encouraging economic development in a world that has become increasingly integrated. | | | The US is the world's leading trader in goods and services, accounting for about 14 percent of world exports and about 16 percent of imports. | | | The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle in late 1999. |
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http://www.globaled.org/issues/160/index.html
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| | IATP Trade Observatory |
| | World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy called last month for recalibrating expectations about what can be accomplished at the upcoming WTO ministerial in Hong Kong. | | | A watered-down agreement announced late last night by the World Trade Organization at the Hong Kong ministerial reflects the struggles of a deeply flawed Doha Round that is far off-track, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. | | | Family farm, religious, conservation and other fair trade organizations sent a letter to key members of Congress calling on them to resist a Bush Administration proposal to shift U.S. countercyclical farm payments into the World Trade Organization's Blue Box. |
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http://www.tradeobservatory.org
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| | Moore |
| | More than half of the world population is involved in agriculture, and as for the service sectors, they are critical to the developing countries that have to diversify their trade. | | | Of course, I don’t believe that by just liberalizing the world trade fully, we will solve all our problems, but trade plays a key role as far as development is concerned. | | | We have a budget that is one third of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). |
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http://www.asian-affairs.com/Crisis/moore.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Profile: World Trade Organization |
| | The General Council is in charge of the day-to-day running of the WTO and is made up of ambassadors from member states who also serve on various subsidiary and specialist committees. | | | WTO lacks democratic accountability, in that its hearings on trade disputes are closed to the public and the media. | | | Whereas Gatt regulated trade in merchandise goods, the WTO also covers trade in services, such as telecommunications and banking, and other issues such as intellectual property rights. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2429503.stm
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| | STATEMENT OF THE ASEAN ECONOMIC MINISTERS ON THE SELECTION OF THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 6 March 1999 |
| | The ASEAN Economic Ministers expressed their concern over the postponement of the selection of the new Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the end of March 1999. | | | The Ministers agreed that the selection process must be completed in time and that it was in the interest of the WTO and its membership that a timely decision be made on a new Director General. | | | At this crucial juncture when WTO members face the challenge of the next millennium and have to conduct intensive preparations for the next Ministerial Conference, there is an urgent need for new and effective leadership to lead the WTO. |
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http://www.neda.gov.ph/PCAAC/FINANCE/statementaseanecon1999.htm
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| | Statement by Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organization |
| | Cutting by a third barriers to trade in agriculture, manufacturing and services would boost the world economy by $613 billion, according to one study from Michigan University, That is equivalent to adding an economy the size of Canada to the world economy. | | | The World Bank in its report on Global Economic Prospects estimates that abolishing all trade barriers could boost global income by $2,800 billion and lift 320 million people out of poverty by 2015. | | | Trade can serve as a key engine of growth but currently products of developing countries face many obstacles in entering the markets of rich countries. |
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http://assembly.coe.int/Sessions/200201/Speeches/moore.htm
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| | WTO Director-General: Pascal Lamy |
| | The World Trade Organization remains the most efficient and most legitimate forum to open and regulate world trade. | | | I believe that trade opening and reducing trade barriers, has been, is and will remain, essential to promote growth and development, to improve standards of living and to tackle poverty reduction. | | | The most legitimate, because it is the fairest system of all, as all the decisions are taken by all the members, large or small, strong or weak. |
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http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/dg_e/dg_e.htm
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| | Oxfam press release: Oxfam urges action on trade as Lamy takes up post as WTO Chief - 31 August 2005 |
| | On the eve of his first day as the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), international agency Oxfam challenged Pascal Lamy to put developing countries’ interests back at the heart of global trade negotiations. | | | Without cooperation from the EU and US, even the most influential Director General in the world would not be able to deliver a result that helped reduce poverty,” said Charveriat. | | | Oxfam said that if the round of talks was to be judged a success, the Former EU Trade Commissioner would have to make sure it delivered reforms that helped for poor farmers. |
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http://www.oxfam.org.uk/press/releases/wto_lamy310805.htm
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| | World Trade Organization |
| | The establishment of the World Trade Organization by the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade marks a watershed in international trade regulation. | | | Founded as a result of the Havana Charter of 1948, the ITO was to be an organization that would ensure fairness in world trade, resolve disputes between members, and institute coverage for the emerging markets in services and intellectual property rights, as well as direct investment. | | | The World Trade Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the WTO") is hereby established. |
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| | Defra, UK - Farming - World Trade Organization - negotiations on agriculture |
| | 8.1 On 1 September 2005 the former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy succeeded Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General of the WTO. | | | It marked the halfway point in the current world trade round, the 'Doha Development Agenda', launched at Doha, Qatar, by the 4th meeting of the Ministerial Conference in November 2001. | | | It discusses main components of the current Agreement resulting from the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations in 1996; and the negotiations for a new Agreement as part of the 2001 Doha Development Agenda. |
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http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/international/wto/wtopaper.htm
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| | Philippe Legrain |
| | An unholy alliance of greens, development lobbyists and old-fashioned protectionists is blasting the World Trade Organisation, often for contradictory reasons. | | | The IMF and the World Bank are lending institutions; they cannot be run by their borrowers. | | | Most trade is regional, not global, and next month's WTO meeting in Doha is unlikely to change that. |
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http://www.philippelegrain.com
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| | WTO: Int'l Trade May Rise 7.5 Pct. in '04 (phillyBurbs.com) General |
| | GENEVA - International trade in goods rose by 4.5 percent in 2003 and could grow by 7.5 percent this year as the world slowly recovers from economic turmoil, the Iraq war and the SARS outbreak, the World Trade Organization said Monday. | | | The WTO noted a number of risks that could affect trade growth, including the $542-billion current account deficit in the United States, which is considered unsustainable in the medium term. | | | Supachai said the best way to ensure sustained trade growth would be for the WTO's 146 members to work together to conclude the current round of trade liberalization negotiations aimed at reducing import duties and other barriers to free international trade. |
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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/24-04052004-277365.html
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| | ECOSOC MEETS WITH BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION; AIMS AT ‘POLICY COHERENCE’ IN IMPLEMENTING MONTERREY COMMITMENTS |
| | Also addressing the meeting were Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany; Mary Whelan, Chair of the Trade Policy Review Body of the WTO; Eduardo Aninat, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF; Zhengman Zhang, Managing Director of the World Bank Group; and Francisco Thompson-Flores, Deputy Director-General of the WTO. | | | MARY WHELAN, Chair of the Trade Policy Review Committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO), said the Doha round of trade negotiations had differed from others in its efforts to ensure that the concerns of developing countries were embedded in the negotiating process and were a central feature of its outcome. | | | ZHENGMAN ZHANG, Managing Director of the World Bank, said that the Bank and the IMF agreed that only by allowing countries to shape their own strategies would coherence be achieved in development policy. At the institutional level, good progress had been made in enhancing cooperation between and among institutions, as well as stakeholders. |
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ecosoc6041.doc.htm
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| | International Government Organizations: Guide to Sources |
| | Contains all documents submitted to the Assembly by the Committee of Ministers, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, international organizations, members and committees of the Assembly. | | | The overview emphasizes balance of payments, exchange rates, world trade, and developments in the international monetary system. | | | WHOLIS, the World Health Organization Library Information System, is a database of citations to WHO publications, articles, technical and policy documents, and joint publications with other publishers and international organizations. |
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http://www.lib.msu.edu/publ_ser/docs/igos/igoorg.htm
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| | noticias - WTO director to become new head of UN trade body |
| | In related news, The Financial Times meanwhile reports that trade ministers meeting in Kenya later this week need to take action to rescue World Trade Organization talks on services from crisis, the top WTO official handling the negotiations has warned. | | | Speaking after three unproductive weeks of talks on opening services markets to foreign competition, Hamid Mamdouh, director of WTO's trade in services division, said services were "the crisis item" on the agenda of the three-day "mini-ministerial" meeting, which starts tomorrow. | | | "His willingness to move to UNCTAD is eloquent testimony to the important role of that body in ensuring that the interest of development are taken into account in discussions on world trade," Annan said. |
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http://www.noticias.info/Archivo/2005/200503/20050301/20050301_50183.shtm
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| | BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: World Trade Organization |
| | It yielded tariff concessions worth $4.9bn of world trade and involved negotiations related to the creation of the European Economic Community. | | | 1994 - Trade ministers meet for the final time under GATT auspices at Marrakesh, Morocco to establish the World Trade Organization (WTO) and complete the Uruguay Round. | | | The round extended the range of trade negotiations, leading to major reductions in agricultural subsidies, an agreement to allow full access for textiles and clothing from developing countries, and an extension of intellectual property rights. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2430089.stm
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| | Pattaya Mail Business News |
| | Understanding what’s happening has implications not only for those directly interested in privatisation but for anyone with a wider interest in the general health of the Thai economy and the role of infrastructure in helping generate a sustainable economic recovery. | | | To mark the event, the Belgian-Luxembourg/Thai Chamber of Commerce (which chairs the European Community Business Association in Thailand) and the Thai-Swedish Chamber of Commerce are delighted to announce that Dr. Supachai, one of the most respected opinion leaders in Thailand in business politics, will speak at a luncheon on June 25 at 12:00 p.m. | | | The luncheon is being organized under the patronage and with the support of the Royal Belgian Embassy and the Royal Swedish Embassy. |
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http://www.pattayamail.com/411/business.htm
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| | WTO boss to head international "think tank" |
| | The Executive Director of the Institute is Mr Andrew Stoler, who until recently served as Deputy Director-General at the World Trade Organization (WTO). | | | A former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization has been appointed to the University of Adelaide to head a major new "think tank", which aims to boost South Australia's reputation for business expertise. | | | His most recent appointment was as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, from November 1999 until October 2002. |
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http://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news444.html
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| | the bilderberg conference in toronto, canada, 5/30-6/2/96 |
| | Meetings are generally held semi-annually and participants, as some of the aforementioned names indicate, represent selected public officials, economists, professionals, publishers, industrialists, labor leaders, and people of influence from virtually all walks of life.... | | | Trilateralists envisage the world as three economic superblocs - Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and Japan - each with a single government and all under the umbrella of a world government. | | | In its news releases, the NEW WORLD ORDER INTELLIGENCE UPDATE emphasized that it had learned from reliable sources that high on the agenda at this secret Bilderberg meeting was the privatization sale of the massive government-owned Ontario Hydro electricity production and distribution utility, a potential source of "pure money machine profits" for key investors. |
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http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/nwoiu_bilderberg.html
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| | IATP Radio Hong Kong |
| | Headlines on the eve of the sixth World Trade Organization ministerial and an interview with Sophia Murphy about what what to expect. | | | Our mission: To provide a timely, engaging and independent voice to the 2005 World Trade Organization ministerial in Hong Kong, December 2005. | | | Radio Hong Kong is a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. |
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http://www.radiocancun.org
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| | Director-General of the World Trade Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Because World Trade Organizations' decisions are made by member states (through either a Ministerial Conference or through the General Council), the Director-General has little power over matters of policy - the role is primarily a technical one. | | | The Director-General of the World Trade Organization holds the highest permanent office of the World Trade Organization, and is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the organization. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director-General_of_the_World_Trade_Organization
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| | Frenchman Set to Assume WTO Leadership |
| | Pascal Lamy, who until recently was the European Union's chief trade negotiator, was set to become director-general of the World Trade Organization after his last remaining rival withdrew from the race yesterday. | | | Pascal Lamy of France is expected to be next head of the World Trade Organization. | | | As head of the Geneva-based body, which sets the rules for trade among its members and mediates their disputes, he would also act as one of the chief advocates for economic globalization, a daunting task in itself. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301529.html
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| | ABC News: Mediator: Lamy Most Likely to Get Backing |
| | GENEVA Apr 15, 2005 — Former European Union trade chief Pascal Lamy is the candidate most likely to attract consensus as the new director-general of the World Trade Organization, a key mediator said Friday. | | | Cuttaree is the foreign affairs and trade minister of Mauritius and Perez del Castillo is Uruguay's former ambassador to the WTO, who was chairman of the trade body's ruling general council. | | | Mohamed is the head of a three-member panel of ambassadors, who are holding two months of closed-door consultations with their counterparts from other countries to help select the next head of the 148-nation body that sets the rules of global commerce. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=673738
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| | Mike Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He became the favoured candidate of one group of countries for the post of director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). | | | The 1984 election saw the Labour Party, led by David Lange, defeat the incumbent National Party government of Robert Muldoon. | | | Moore is currently an adjunct professor in the law school at Latrobe University in Melbourne, Australia and is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Moore
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| | NZOOM - ONE News - Business |
| | World Trade Organization (WTO) states missed a deadline on Monday for relaunching stalled "Doha Round" free trade talks, but officials said most were confident they would do better in the new year. | | | WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi told the news conference, called after a day-long meeting of delegation heads that was originally programmed to try to put the talks back on track, he had seen "flexibility from all sides." | | | Delegations from many of the 146 member states also maintained the current target date - the end of 2004 - to wrap up the round, although privately most trade diplomats say it is already far out of reach. |
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http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,243312-1-453,00.html
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