//*********************************************************************** //* APPLICATION : WTO Web Site //* COMPONENT : 2009 News Arrays - English //* LAST UPDATE : 22/07/2010 //*********************************************************************** // ADD NEWS ITEMS HERE... news_item[1148] = { ni_date:"2009.12.21_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB establishes panel to examine China’s export restrictions on raw materials", ni_intro:"At its meeting on 21 December 2009, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) established a single panel to examine complaints by the US, EU and Mexico concerning China’s export restrictions on raw materials.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"27#160#176#184#217#234#267#291#293#294#322#350#394#395#396#398#399", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_21dec09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1147] = { ni_date:"2009.12.15_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Second regional trade policy course for Francophone African countries concludes", ni_intro:"The Second Regional Trade Policy Course for Francophone African countries, organized in partnership with the University of Abomey-Calavi, concluded on 15 December 2009 at the Palais des Congrès in Cotonou, Benin.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"BEN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_15dec09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:4, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1146] = { ni_date:"2009.12.21_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy praises Copenhagen efforts, calls for more to be done", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, on 21 December 2009, said that “during the (Copenhagen) conference the issue of border measures was raised. The WTO membership, like the UN Members in Copenhagen, is divided on this matter. But what I can say is that the more we move toward a multilateral framework on climate change, the more unilateral trade measures will be difficult to explain”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"ENVIR#DGPL", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Mr Lamy’s statement", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/climate_21dec09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Background note: Trade and environment in the WTO", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/climate_21dec09_e.pdf", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"30", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1145] = { ni_date:"2009.12.21_16:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Appellate Body issues report on US-China dispute over publications and audiovisual products", ni_intro:"The Appellate Body, on 21 December 2009, issued its report regarding a complaint by the United States against “China — Measures Affecting Trading Rights and Distribution Services for Certain Publications and Audiovisual Entertainment Products” (DS363).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AB#DISP", ni_country:"CHN#USA", ni_cases:"363", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Appellate Body Report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/363abr_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1144] = { ni_date:"2009.12.17_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Ireland donates EUR 200,000 for food, animal and plant health standards", ni_intro:"Ireland donated EUR 200,000 (approximately CHF 300,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), a programme set up to help developing countries improve their expertise and their capacity to analyze and implement international standards on food safety and animal and plant health. 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Expressing the hope that “2010 is the year in which we build on the foundations for a safer global economy,” he said that “we can and must make our contribution through clinching a Doha deal”. 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Guillermo Valles Galmés, at an informal meeting with the presence of Senior Officials and Heads of Delegations on 25 November 2009, recalled the history of the Rules negotiations and suggested possible ways forward.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RULE#FISH", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by the Chairman", nl_url:"http://docsonline.wto.org/imrd/directdoc.asp?DDFDocuments/t/tn/rl/W246.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"11", nl_kb:"110", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1134] = { ni_date:"2009.12.07_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy says new banking rules must be “non-discriminatory”", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Conference on the New Global Trading System in the Post-Crisis Era in Seoul on 7 December 2009 with respect to post-crisis banking rules that “it is important that re-regulation be applied in a non-discriminatory manner, avoiding any form of “re-nationalization” of lending.” He said that “countries that have provided support to banks should be able to exit support as the de-leveraging process takes place, in a manner that ensures a level playing field between national and foreign-owned institutions.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"KOR", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl144_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1133] = { ni_date:"2009.12.04_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"“Trade is the stimulus package available to developing countries” — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his speech to the UNIDO LDC Conference in Vienna on 3 December 2009, said he looked forward to continuing to work with least-developed countries and UNIDO in ensuring that “the benefits of a more open trading system translate into reality for developing countries”. 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The funds are provided for 2009 and 2010.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#STDF#PRES", ni_country:"CHE", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr588_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1129] = { ni_date:"2009.12.01_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Day 2: Ministers call for speedy Doha Round deal", ni_intro:"Ministers from WTO member governments said on 1 December 2009 that the eight-year-old Doha Round negotiations should be concluded quickly, several of them calling for a political push early in the year so the talks can end in 2010. 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He hoped that the Ministers would give guidance on “how they see engagement in the Doha negotiations post-December”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TNC#DGPL#DDA#MN09A", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_dg_stat_27nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_27_tnc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"15", nl_kb:"1719", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1121] = { ni_date:"2009.11.27_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Sweden donates CHF 5.2 million for food, animal and plant health standards", ni_intro:"Sweden donated SEK 35 million (approximately CHF 5.2 million) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), a programme set up to help developing countries improve their expertise and their capacity to analyze and implement international standards on food safety and animal and plant health. The funds are provided as a multi-year contribution running for five years from 2009 to 2013.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#STDF#PRES", ni_country:"SWE", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr584_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1120] = { ni_date:"2009.11.24_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Switzerland offers CHF 40,000 for LDCs’ participation in Ministerial Conference", ni_intro:"Switzerland donated CHF 40,000 to the special trust fund established to finance the travel costs for the participation of the Least Developed Countries’ delegations in the 7th Ministerial Conference, which will take place from 30 November to 2 December 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#MN09A#PRES", ni_country:"CHE", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr583_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1119] = { ni_date:"2009.11.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Negotiators focus on data gaps in farm trade talks", ni_intro:"As WTO agriculture negotiators continued to progress on some necessary technical tasks, chairperson David Walker urged them on 20 November 2009 to meet their deadline for submitting missing data.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGNG#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item with audio", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/agng_16nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement (templates), 16 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_16_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"6", nl_kb:"646", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s closing statement (templates), 16 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_16_walker_closing.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"3", nl_kb:"318", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement (data), 17 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_17_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"2", nl_kb:"221", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s summing up, on deadlines for submitting data, 17 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_17_walker_summing_up.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"3", nl_kb:"378", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s closing statement (data), 17 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_17_walker_closing.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"1", nl_kb:"120", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement (wrap up and report on consultations), 20 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_20_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"3", nl_kb:"369", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s summary of his consultations (wrap up and report on consultations), 20 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_20_walker_summary.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"9", nl_kb:"1039", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s closing statement (wrap up and report on consultations), 20 November 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_20_walker_closing.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"1", nl_kb:"90", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1118] = { ni_date:"2009.11.19_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Farm trade rises amid continuing concern, committee hears", ni_intro:"World agricultural exports have nearly tripled in 20 years, and more recently Belarus, Chile, China, India, Ukraine and the US have broken into the top exporters’ lists for some specific products, the Agriculture Committee learnt on 19 November 2009.

But WTO members also heard warnings from international organizations that despite some easing in international food prices, hunger remains a problem for over a billion people in developing countries — “people eat less and eat less well,” as one put it.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGRI", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/ag_com_19nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1117] = { ni_date:"2009.11.23_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy outlines busy week for senior Doha negotiators", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, at an informal Trade Negotiations Committee meeting on 23 November 2009 kicking off the Second Senior Officials Week, outlined a programme of meetings covering agriculture, industrial goods, services, rules, trade-related intellectual property rights, and environment. 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(and) in setting the tone and preparing for the next Senior Officials Meeting in December.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TNC#DGPL#DDA#MN09A", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_dg_stat_23nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_23_tnc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"10", nl_kb:"1210", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1116] = { ni_date:"2009.11.19_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB authorizes Brazil countermeasures in “cotton” case, establishes “COOL” and poultry panels ", ni_intro:"At its meeting on 19 November 2009, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) granted authorization to Brazil to impose countermeasures against the US in the “cotton” case (DS267), and established a single panel to examine complaints by Canada (DS384) and Mexico (DS386) on the US country of origin labelling (COOL), and a panel to examine the US complaint on EC measures on imports of poultry meat (DS389).", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"BRA#USA", ni_cases:"267#384#386#389", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_19nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1115] = { ni_date:"2009.11.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy calls for exit strategies on temporary trade restrictions and subsidies", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his annual report on trade and trade-related developments in 2009, said that “although there have been instances of slippage, in general terms the world economy is about as open for trade today as it was before the crisis started.” He called on members “to devise and announce exit strategies to remove trade restrictions and production subsidies that they have introduced temporarily to counteract the effects of the crisis, and start implementing those strategies as soon as domestic economic recovery takes hold.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRDEV#DGPL#TPR", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/lamy_20nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1114] = { ni_date:"2009.11.05_17:00:00#2009.11.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Tobacco and poultry among members’ trade concerns", ni_intro:"At the meeting of the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade on 5-6 November 2009, members discussed 41 specific trade concerns, including 10 new ones. 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", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA#DISP", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_06nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/train_e/activity_sheets_2009_e/tc09-2_e.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"53", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1109] = { ni_date:"2009.11.17_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Geneva Ministerial a “unique occasion” to send strong signals on WTO issues — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 17 November 2009, said that while the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference would not be a negotiating session, it would be “a platform for ministers to review the functioning of this house,” including the Doha Round, and an occasion “to send a number of strong signals to the world with respect to the entire WTO waterfront of issues — from monitoring and surveillance to disputes, accessions, Aid for Trade, technical assistance and international governance”. 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In the 28—29 October 2009 meeting of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Committee they accepted draft procedures conditionally. These will be formally approved if no one raises further objections by 16 December, over two years after the first proposal was submitted.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPS", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/sps_28oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1105] = { ni_date:"2009.11.05_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"5th Geneva workshop helps officials use health patent flexibilities", ni_intro:"Twenty-five developing-country officials took part in the fifth workshop designed to help their countries make use of the pharmaceutical patents flexibilities in the WTO intellectual property agreement on 3—5 November 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"HEAL#TRIP#TRA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/heal_05nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/train_e/activity_sheets_2009_e/wto09-3_e.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"66", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1104] = { ni_date:"2009.11.09_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy sees need for “right global governance” to meet global challenges", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the Bocconi University in Milan on 9 November 2009, said: “The reality is that the end of the cold war caught everyone by surprise. It was the end of a bi-polar world. A new world order was being born. And yet there was not enough thinking and discussion about its governance structures. There was never a Bretton Woods Conference or a San Francisco Conference post 1989. As a result global governance structures did not adjust. And here lies the root of many of today’s problems. Global challenges need global solutions and these can only come with the right global governance, which today, twenty years later, remains too weak.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"ITA", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl142_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1103] = { ni_date:"2009.11.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Industrial goods negotiation concludes intensive week on “non-tariff barriers”", ni_intro:"At the end of an intensive week of meetings, devoted mostly to “non-tariff barriers”, the chairman of the Negotiating Group, ambassador Luzius Wasescha, commended on 6 November the delegations’ “constructive interaction” and asked for updated and refined text-based proposals.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"NAMA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Audio: Chair’s opening statement", nl_url:"/audio/2009_11_06_wasescha_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"8", nl_kb:"926", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1102] = { ni_date:"2009.11.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO disputes reach 400 mark", ni_intro:"On the eve of its 15th “birthday”, the WTO earlier this month reached the milestone of having the 400th trade dispute brought to the body’s dispute settlement mechanism. “This is surely a vote of confidence in a system which many consider to be a role model for the peaceful resolution of disputes in other areas of international political or economic relations,” said Director-General Pascal Lamy to mark the occasion.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DISP#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr578_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1101] = { ni_date:"2009.11.03_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy receives “Globalist of the Year” award", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy received the “Globalist of the Year” award from the Canadian International Council on 3 November 2009 in Toronto. He said that “a successful Doha Round would show that even in the midst of a global economic crisis, nations can successfully cooperate to reach global solutions”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"CAN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl141_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1100] = { ni_date:"2009.11.02_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO training course for the Caribbean kicks off in Jamaica", ni_intro:"A two-week Consolidation Training Course for the Caribbean focusing on agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) and technical barriers to trade (TBT), organized in partnership with the University of the West Indies, kicked off in Kingston, Jamaica, on 2 November 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA#AGRI#SPS#TBT", ni_country:"JAM", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_02nov09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1099] = { ni_date:"2009.12.08_14:00:00#2009.12.10_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: Georgia", ni_intro:"Further structural reforms will be key to Georgia’s sustained development, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices published on 8 December 2009. 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He noted that at the 2007 Trade Ministers’ meeting in Bali on the relationship between trade and climate change, his “message was, and continues to be, designed to uphold the Copenhagen Climate Summit at the end of the year”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#ENVIR", ni_country:"CAN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl140_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1095] = { ni_date:"2009.10.30_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Goods Chair says 10 new regional trade agreements notified to the WTO", ni_intro:"The Chairperson of the Council for Trade in Goods, Amb. 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From 1998 to 2003 he was the Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. 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This last donation brings Korea’s total contribution to CHF2.6 million.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#DAGTF#PRES", ni_country:"KOR", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr576_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1088] = { ni_date:"2009.10.23_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy calls for intensified, text-based Doha negotiations to bridge gaps", ni_intro:"Recent talks among senior negotiators have seen no backsliding on ambition in the Doha Round, but no tangible progress either, Director-General Pascal Lamy concluded on 23 October 2009 when he summarized the overall situation for the Trade Negotiations Committee, which he chairs.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TNC#DGPL#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_dg_stat_23oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_23_tnc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"22", nl_kb:"2617", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1087] = { ni_date:"2009.10.12_17:00:00#2009.10.16_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Farm talks’ technical work to move to next step", ni_intro:"WTO agriculture negotiators have continued to progress steadily on highly technical tasks that will allow them to put their forthcoming commitments down on paper, and could move on to the next step when they meet again in November, their chairperson said on 16 October 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGNG#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item with audio", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/agng_12oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement 12 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_12_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"5", nl_kb:"560", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s summary, Part 1 (templates and data), 16 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_16_walker_part1.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"8", nl_kb:"884", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s summary, Part 2 (report on consultations), 16 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_16_walker_part2.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"749", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1086] = { ni_date:"2009.10.21_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu donates USD 20,000 for the participation of the least-developed countries in the 7th Ministerial Conference ", ni_intro:"Chinese Taipei donated USD 20,000 (about CHF 20,400) to the trust fund established to finance the travel costs for the participation of the least developed countries’ delegations in the 7th Ministerial Conference which will take place from 30 November to 2 December 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#MN09A#PRES", ni_country:"CHT", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr575_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1085] = { ni_date:"2009.10.22_19:30:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO culture of international trade cooperation is relevant to the energy sector — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at a conference on “Energy, Trade and Global Governance” on 22 October 2009, said that the WTO and the world of energy are not “parallel universes”, citing areas such as services where “the WTO has established a framework of cooperation that includes services incident to the extraction of oil and gas, services incidental to energy distribution and pipeline transportation of fuels”. 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It also agreed that there will be two Working Sessions to run in parallel to the Plenary Session, with the sub-themes “Review of WTO Activities, Including the Doha Work Programme” and “The WTO’s Contribution to Recovery, Growth and Development”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GC#MN09A", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Chairman’s Statement on Agenda Item 6", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/gc_20oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/summary_gc_oct09_e.pdf", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"3", nl_kb:"18", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Mario Matus, Chair of the General Council", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_20_gc_matus_stat_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:13, nl_pages:"17", nl_kb:"2042", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1083] = { ni_date:"2009.10.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy calls for “serious acceleration” of Doha talks to meet 2010 target", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 20 October 2009, said “it will be difficult to get to 2010 without a serious acceleration of pace. We need to see real negotiations emerge, not only informal consultations and discussions, but real exchanges among Members”. He said he would be holding consultations on the key issues with negotiating chairs and meet with senior trade officials during the week.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GC#DGPL#DDA#TNC", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Report by the Chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_chair_report_20oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_20_gc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"16", nl_kb:"1946", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Proposed agenda", nl_url:"/english/thewto_e/gcounc_e/meet_oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1082] = { ni_date:"2009.10.14_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: “Continued policy and regulatory reform in favour of services trade will be vital to supporting economic recovery”", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the Global Services Summit on 14 October 2009 in Washington D.C., said: “to speed global economic recovery, we will need to shore up peoples’ faith in an open international trading system. We will need to demonstrate that continued policy and regulatory reform in favour of services trade will be vital to supporting economic recovery. This may be clear to all of you attending this Summit, but you are the “converted”. The challenge is to take this message beyond these walls. Sectors such as transport, telecoms, finance and distribution are after all the backbone of our international trading system. Other sectors such as energy or the environment hold a huge potential, in particular in the fight against climate change.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"USA", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl138_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1081] = { ni_date:"2009.10.13_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Doha success can yield double dividend of global stimulus and structural reform — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the German Engineering Federation Summit in Berlin on 13 October 2009, said that: “Germany and other countries in the Euro Area are experiencing large deficits and an increase in government debt ratios. Fiscal “exit strategies” aimed at avoiding ballooning public debt must rely on a combination of fiscal consolidation that is, running a primary surplus, and sustained growth in GDP. Achieving fiscal consolidation in times of economic hardship is not easy given the presence of automatic stabilizers such as unemployment benefits and the reduced tax revenues. Achieving sustained economic growth is no easier. Economic growth can only be maintained by steady productivity increases. A successful conclusion of the Doha Round can yield a double dividend. On the one hand, the Doha Round can play the role of a global stimulus package. On the other hand, the Doha Round can effectively act as a structural reform package. It is the most effective way of further constraining protectionist pressures and fostering a political economy dynamics.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"DEU", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl137_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1080] = { ni_date:"2009.10.12_11:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Informal employment curbs trade benefits for developing countries ", ni_intro:"A joint study from the International Labour Organization and the WTO has found that high incidence of informal employment in the developing world suppresses countries’ ability to benefit from trade opening by creating poverty traps for workers in job transition. “Trade has contributed to growth and development worldwide. But this has not automatically translated into an improvement in the quality of employment. Trade opening needs proper domestic policies to create good jobs. This is all the more evident with the current crisis which has reduced trade and thrown thousands into informal jobs,” said WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"PUBL#IGO#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr574_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio of the launch", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_12_ilo_wto.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"7185", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Video: Highlights from the book launch", nl_url:"http://wto.streamlogics.com/2009_10_12_wto_ilo.wmv", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"12870", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1079] = { ni_date:"2009.10.05_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO, WIPO launch advanced course on intellectual property for government officials", ni_intro:"On 5 October 2009, Dr Francis Gurry, WIPO Director-General , welcomed 20 government officials from developing countries, least-developed countries and countries with economies in transition, three from developed countries and one from the European Union to the first joint WIPO-WTO Advanced Course on Intellectual Property (IP) organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA#TRIP#IGO", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_05oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/train_e/activity_sheets_2009_e/tc09-5_e.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"133", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1077] = { ni_date:"2009.11.11_14:00:00#2009.11.13_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: Niger and Senegal", ni_intro:"Further structural reforms would help Niger and Senegal to improve their economic performance, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the countries’ trade policies and practices published on 11 November 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"NER#SEN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp323_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp323_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp323_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"846", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1076] = { ni_date:"2009.09.28_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Second Regional Trade Policy Course for Francophone Africa launched in Cotonou", ni_intro:"The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Bénin, Professor Francis Abiola, and Ms Gabrielle Marceau, Counsellor of the Office of the WTO Director-General, launched the second Regional Trade Policy Course on 28 September in Cotonou, Bénin. The Rector of the University of Abomey-Calavi, Professor Norbert Awanou Cossi, WTO partner for this project, welcomed the participants.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"BEN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_28sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1075] = { ni_date:"2009.10.02_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO course for least-developed countries concludes in Geneva", ni_intro:"The Sixteenth Introduction Course on the WTO for the least-developed countries (LDCs), organized by the Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation (ITTC) of the WTO, concluded on 2 October 2009 in Geneva.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/16th_introday.gif", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_02oct09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"/french/tratop_f/devel_f/train_f/activity_sheets_2009_f/ic09-2_f.doc", nl_lang_id:5, nl_pages:"9", nl_kb:"86", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1074] = { ni_date:"2009.09.25_17:00:00#2009.10.01_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Negotiators complete first round on agriculture ‘templates’ and data", ni_intro:"Farm talks’ chairperson David Walker described as “a good start” two days of technical discussion on the blank forms members will use for making commitments on agriculture — and the accompanying data that will be needed — which ended on 1 October 2009. Negotiators will now examine various ideas that have been proposed, and the talks’ chairperson urged them to supply comments in writing before they next meet in the week of 12 October.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGNG#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item with audio", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/agng_25sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement 25 September 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_09_25_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"6", nl_kb:"523", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement 1 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_01_walker_am_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"3", nl_kb:"399", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker on the relationship between the “template” work and “modalities”, 1 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_01_walker_am_2.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"2", nl_kb:"226", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s closing statement 1 October 2009", nl_url:"/audio/2009_10_01_walker_pm_close.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"5", nl_kb:"600", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1073] = { ni_date:"2009.10.02_16:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO Arbitrator determines “reasonable period of time” in Panama —Colombia trade dispute", ni_intro:"A WTO Arbitrator, on 2 October 2009, issued his award regarding the “reasonable period of time” for the implementation of Dispute Settlement Body recommendations and rulings in the dispute “Colombia — Indicative Prices and Restrictions on Ports of Entry” (DS366).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AB#DISP", ni_country:"COL#PAN", ni_cases:"366", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Decision of the Arbitrator", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/366arb2_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1072] = { ni_date:"2009.09.25_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB establishes panel in orange juice case", ni_intro:"On 25 September 2009, the Dispute Settlement Body established a panel to examine anti-dumping measures taken by the United States on imports of orange juice from Brazil.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"BRA#USA", ni_cases:"267#332#382", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_25sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1071] = { ni_date:"2009.11.04_14:00:00#2009.11.06_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: Southern African Customs Union", ni_intro:"The five member states of the Southern African Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) need deeper integration for more balanced development, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the trade policies and practices of the customs union published on 4 November 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"BWA#LSO#NAM#ZAF#SWZ", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp322_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp322_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp322_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"820", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1070] = { ni_date:"2009.09.29_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Cambodia wins more funds for pro-poor trade policies", ni_intro:"On 29 September 2009, the Royal Government of Cambodia, through its Ministry of Commerce, gained access to the Tier 1 of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) seven years after having been selected as a pilot country under the Integrated Framework (IF). 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He also said that the positive results of the Geneva referendum yesterday on the extension of the WTO headquarters “will encourage us to extend our outreach to you even further”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl136_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Opening Session", nl_url:"/audio/forum09_opening_lamy.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"1928", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1068] = { ni_date:"2009.09.27_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Statement by Pascal Lamy on the result of the referendum on the extension of the Centre William Rappard", ni_intro:"“The result of this referendum allows us to advance beyond this important stage of the project of renovation/extension of the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The WTO will continue to work with the authorities of the Host Country. The debate on this referendum has brought us closer to the Geneva population and we intend to pursue our efforts in this respect.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RENOV", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News archive", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news_e.htm#bkmk1068", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"WTO building", nl_url:"/english/thewto_e/cwr_e/cwr_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1067] = { ni_date:"2009.09.24_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Committee focuses on sharing farm trade information", ni_intro:"The WTO Agriculture Committee continued its efforts on 24 September 2009 to beef up the information members share with each other directly or more usually through the WTO Secretariat. And as usual, it also heard members ask each other questions about recent actions they have taken on subsidies and market access under the Agriculture Agreement, this time including the latest reviews involving China and the Republic of Korea. 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They now have the road mapped out, but they still have to walk it.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TNC#DGPL#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_dg_stat_22sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/audio/2009_09_22_tnc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"10", nl_kb:"1122", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1060] = { ni_date:"2009.09.17_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy opens inaugural TAIT conference on challenges facing the WTO", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the Thinking Ahead on International Trade’s conference on “Challenges Facing the World Trade System” on 17 September 2009 at the WTO, said “successful adaptation in an institution like this, it seems to me, requires incremental, evolutionary change”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#RESE", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl135_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1059] = { ni_date:"2009.09.16_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Chair consults on ‘energizing’ farm talks for coming months", ni_intro:"Chairperson David Walker has started working with members to develop a programme for the coming months, aimed at completing the negotiations within 2010. He outlined his plans in a 16 September 2009 meeting, and members broadly accepted his suggestion, which includes the possibility of meetings in the weeks of 12 October, 16 November and 7 December 2009.
 
The consultations immediately after this meeting will include identifying which topics should be covered and in what order.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGNG#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item with audio", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/agng_16sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement part 1", nl_url:"/audio/2009_09_16_walker_opening1.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"2", nl_kb:"193", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement part 2", nl_url:"/audio/2009_09_16_walker_opening2.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"11", nl_kb:"1230", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s closing statement", nl_url:"/audio/2009_09_16_walker_closing.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"2", nl_kb:"178", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1058] = { ni_date:"2009.08.31_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Panel established in bovine meat case and reports adopted on zeroing case", ni_intro:"On 31 August 2009, the Dispute Settlement Body established a panel in the bovine meat case between Canada and Korea and adopted the Panel and Appellate Body reports in the zeroing case between Japan and the US.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"CAN#KOR#JPN#USA#EEC#CHN", ni_cases:"294#322#339#340#342#391", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_31aug09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1057] = { ni_date:"2009.09.16_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy urges G20 leaders to throw their weight behind a Doha deal", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech at the 56th Session of the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board on 16 September 2009, said that “what is outstanding in the DDA negotiations is doable and a deal is within reach, but to get there, we still need a translation of the current global political support into tangible negotiating moves”. He said that following up on a successful ministerial gathering in India, senior trade officials are in Geneva consulting on “a compass to guide the negotiations over the coming months, so we can wrap them up in 2010”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#IGO", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl134_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1056] = { ni_date:"2009.09.15_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO awards prizes for young economists", ni_intro:"The WTO has awarded prizes to two young economists for their outstanding essays which pertain to trade co-operation within the WTO and the WTO’s dispute settlement process. These awards mark the first time the WTO has acknowledged the intellectual contribution of young economists in this way.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RESE#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr572_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1055] = { ni_date:"2009.09.14_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO launches eTraining course in French", ni_intro:"A WTO online eTraining course in French starts on 14 September 2009. The “Introduction to the WTO” course will provide online training to government officials from developing countries and least-developed countries on matters related to international trade and WTO agreements.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA#ETR", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/etr_14sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1054] = { ni_date:"2009.09.14_11:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"G20 governments refrain from extensive use of restrictive measures, but some slippage evident", ni_intro:"G20 Governments have refrained from extensive use of restrictive trade and investment measures in recent months but have continued, in a limited way, to apply tariffs and non-tariff instruments that have hindered trade flows, the heads of the OECD, UNCTAD and the WTO indicated in a joint report to G-20 leaders meeting in Pittsburgh later this month. ", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL#IGO#TRDEV", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/trdev_14sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Joint Report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/trdev_dg_report_14sep09_e.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"60", nl_kb:"1594", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1053] = { ni_date:"2009.09.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Success for WTO’s Open Day", ni_intro:"Under a late summer sun on Sunday, 6 September 2009, about 5,000 people came to learn more about the World Trade Organization, its work, staff, artistic treasures and its building that is more than 80 years old. “Our volunteers, our members and all WTO staff would like to thank everyone who visited us and made this day a great success. I hope to see you all again next year”, Director-General Pascal Lamy said.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"OPEN", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/renov_06sep09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1052] = { ni_date:"2009.09.03_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy hopes New Delhi meeting can be “the beginning of the endgame of the Doha Round”", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi on 3 September 2009, said the most efficient means for countries to deal with the economic crisis “remains the multilateral Doha Development Round”. He said the meeting of a group of WTO Ministers “will have the opportunity to map out how they intend to bring the Doha Round to a closure in 2010”. 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Director General Pascal Lamy summed up the aim of the day: “This Open Day will be a chance to discover the WTO in all its facets — historical, cultural and international — as well as to understand the importance of international trade to the prosperity of all the world’s citizens.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"OPEN#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr570_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1048] = { ni_date:"2009.08.31_15:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO issues arbitration reports in US-Brazil cotton dispute", ni_intro:"The WTO today (31 August 2009) issued two reports covering the arbitration proceedings dealing with the US-Brazil cotton dispute (DS267).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AB#DISP", ni_country:"BRA#USA", ni_cases:"267", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Decision of the Arbitrator", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/267arb_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1047] = { ni_date:"2009.08.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Swaziland hosts its 1st WTO Regional Trade Policy Course", ni_intro:"The First WTO Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) for English-speaking African countries, which was organized in partnership with the University of Swaziland, was concluded on Thursday, 20 August 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"SWZ", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_20aug09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1046] = { ni_date:"2009.08.18_16:30:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Appellate Body issues compliance report on US-Japan “zeroing” dispute", ni_intro:"The Appellate Body, on 18 August 2009, issued its report regarding compliance in the dispute “United States: Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews — Recourse to DSU Article 21.5 by Japan” (DS322).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AB#DISP", ni_country:"USA#JPN", ni_cases:"322", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Appellate Body Report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/322abrw_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1045] = { ni_date:"2009.08.12_16:30:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Panel issues report on US-China dispute over publications and audiovisual products", ni_intro:"The WTO, on 12 August 2009, issued the report of the panel that had examined a complaint by the United States against “China — Measures affecting trading rights and distribution services for certain publications and audiovisual entertainment products” (DS363).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"CHN#USA", ni_cases:"363", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Panel report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/363r_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1044] = { ni_date:"2009.07.31_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO course for LDCs concludes in Geneva", ni_intro:"The fifteenth Introduction Course on the WTO for the least-developed countries (LDCs), organized by the Institute for Training and Technical Co-operation (ITTC) of the WTO, concluded on 31 July 2009 in Geneva.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/tpc_31jul09.gif", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_31jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Activity sheet for the course", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/train_e/activity_sheets_2009_e/ic09-1_e.doc", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"65", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1043] = { ni_date:"2009.07.31_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB establishes panel in China-US poultry case", ni_intro:"At a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 31 July 2009, a panel was established regarding US measures that, according to China, affect imports of Chinese poultry. 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With these donations, Denmark’s total contributions to WTO coordinated technical assistance have reached CHF 12 million since 2000.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#DAGTF#STDF#SPS#PRES", ni_country:"DNK", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr571_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1041] = { ni_date:"2009.07.22_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Chair says Geneva Ministerial “not intended as a negotiating meeting”", ni_intro:"The chair of the General Council, Ambassador Mario Matus, at an informal meeting of WTO ambassadors on 22 July 2009, reported “significant progress” in his consultations on the overall structure of the Seventh Ministerial Conference, which will be held in Geneva on 30 November-2 December 2009. He said there is convergence on a number of points, including on the importance of not overloading the agenda of the Conference.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"MN09A#GC", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/mn09a_22jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1040] = { ni_date:"2009.07.27_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy briefs members on his intellectual property consultations", ni_intro:"Talks on two intellectual property issues — geographical indications and proposals related to biodiversity — need to continue to focus on technical issues so that members can understand each others’ concerns better and seek an outcome that is “practically achievable”, Director-General Pascal Lamy told WTO members on 27 July 2009. In their comments, members indicated that they remain divided in their broad positions, even if they share a better understanding of some of the problems.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRIP", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/trip_27jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1039] = { ni_date:"2009.07.28_17:00:00#2009.07.29_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"“Our task now is to match political promise with negotiating performance” — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 28 July 2009, said that at the informal Trade Negotiations Committee meeting the day before, “there was unanimous agreement that if we are to get to our destination on time, the renewed level of political re-engagement by leaders urgently required translation into tangible progress in the negotiations”. He also reported that the second WTO Aid for Trade global review was a success and “a clear demonstration of our collective resolve to address the capacity challenges facing developing countries”. 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And on 23 July they heard chairperson David Walker’s plan to resume intensive work in September covering both this technical work and remaining questions on the substance of the negotiations.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGNG#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item with audio", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/agng_20jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson Walker’s opening statement", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_23_walker_opening.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"10", nl_kb:"1147", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1036] = { ni_date:"2009.07.24_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy presents road map for the autumn negotiations", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the informal meeting of the Trade Negotiations Committee on 24 July 2009, said he sensed from recent Summits held in Bali, Paris, L’Aquila and Singapore “a genuine and strong renewal of political commitment to re-engage in the Doha negotiations to conclude it in 2010.” He said the autumn will be “a very busy period” for all negotiating groups, and that “we have to ensure the whole caravan moves forward together and arrives on time.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TNC#DGPL#DDA", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by Pascal Lamy", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_dg_stat_24jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy to the TNC", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_24_tnc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"34", nl_kb:"4017", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1035] = { ni_date:"2009.07.24_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Data on technical barriers to trade are now easier to find", ni_intro:"The Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Information Management System, a comprehensive source of information on measures relating to technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures, is now online. 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He welcomed the APEC Trade Ministers’ commitment to work for a conclusion of the Doha Round in 2010 as “a positive signal to Geneva as we chart a programme of work for the autumn.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"WTR#PUBL#DGPL#RESE#PRES", ni_country:"SGP", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl133b_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr565_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio of the launch in Geneva", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_22_wtr.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"60", nl_kb:"7018", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1025] = { ni_date:"2009.07.17_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Industrial goods chair commends WTO workshops on tariff schedules", ni_intro:"The chair of the Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Market Access, Amb. 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Accepting that trade can help promote human rights and access to food, Dr De Schutter said this can only happen if certain conditions are met. His comments received a mixed reception from delegates.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGRI", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/ag_02jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1012] = { ni_date:"2009.07.02_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Beef quota and dairy subsidies attract members’ attention", ni_intro:"Two issues concerning the EU and US, but of interest to the wider membership, featured among delegations’ questions and comments on latest information in the 2 July 2009 Agriculture Committee meeting. One is whether a beef import quota that the EU intends to introduce in order to settle a long-running legal dispute with the US will be available to all exporters — the EU said it will. The other is a number of members’ objections to the EU and US reintroducing export subsidies on dairy products, even if the subsidies are within the limits that the two have agreed.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGRI", ni_country:"EEC#USA", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/ag_com_02jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1011] = { ni_date:"2009.06.19_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"US/EU hormones case agreement discussed at the DSB", ni_intro:"On 19 June 2009, the DSB discussed the agreement signed between the US and the EC in the hormones case and appointed new Appellate Body members.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"USA#EEC", ni_cases:"26#366", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_19jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1010] = { ni_date:"2009.07.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Spain offers EUR 350,000 to WTO training programme for developing countries", ni_intro:"Spain has donated EUR 350,000 (about CHF 530,000) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) for activities in favour of the Latin American and Caribbean countries.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#PRES", ni_country:"ESP", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr561_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1009] = { ni_date:"2009.06.11_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO adopts compliance rulings in the US “zeroing” case brought by the EC", ni_intro:"At its meeting on 11 June 2009, the DSB adopted the Appellate Body Report and the Panel Report, as modified by the Appellate Body Report, in the case United States — Laws, Regulations and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins (“Zeroing”): Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the European Communities (DS294). ", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"USA#EEC", ni_cases:"294", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_11jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1008] = { ni_date:"2009.06.29_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Goods Council approves waiver for Cape Verde", ni_intro:"The Council for Trade in Goods, on 29 June 2009, approved a request by Cape Verde for a one-year delay in the implementation of its WTO accession commitments.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GOOD", ni_country:"CPV", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/good_29jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1007] = { ni_date:"2009.06.25_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: “We now must shift from mood music to dance music”", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a joint press conference with Australia’s Trade Minister Simon Crean after an informal meeting of trade ministers in Paris on 25 June 2009, said “all Ministers present want to conclude the Round and they all agree that the crisis takes this from an urgency to an emergency.” Minister Crean said “we now have a good mix of the political will and a new direction.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dgpl_25jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1006] = { ni_date:"2009.06.25_17:00:00#2009.06.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"TBT experts discuss proposals for fifth triennial review, debate 48 trade concerns", ni_intro:"The Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, on 25-26 June 2009, discussed the fifth triennial review of the agreement, and debated 48 trade concerns raised by members.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TBT", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tbt_25jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1005] = { ni_date:"2009.07.06_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: Aid for Trade will help developing countries to exit the economic crisis", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the Second Global Review of Aid for Trade on 6 July 2009, said “if Aid for Trade was urgent in 2007, it is essential today — it is the investment that will allow many developing countries prepare to exit the crisis by enhancing their trade capacity.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AID#IGO#DGPL", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/aid_06jul09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"More on the global review", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/a4t_e/global_review09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Programme with links to audio", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/a4t_e/global_review09_prog_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Opening address Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, UN", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_06_a4t_kimoon_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"5", nl_kb:"553", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Pascal Lamy’s opening remarks", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_06_a4t_lamy_opening_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"14", nl_kb:"1570", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Angel Gurría’s opening remarks", nl_url:"/audio/2009_07_06_a4t_gurria_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"15", nl_kb:"1705", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Opening address Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, UN", nl_url:"http://wto.streamlogics.com/2009_07_06_aft_open.wmv", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"9035", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Session 1: Pascal Lamy and Angel Gurrìa", nl_url:"http://wto.streamlogics.com/2009_07_06_aft_session1.wmv", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"28", nl_kb:"53336", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1004] = { ni_date:"2009.06.30_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"UN System bodies call for collective response to financial and ecological crises", ni_intro:"A group of international organizations, including the WTO, says coordinated efforts to create a green economy are needed to tackle financial, economic, food, water, energy, ecosystem and climate crises. 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Both parties spoke at the meeting.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"PAN#COL", ni_cases:"366#344", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_20may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1002] = { ni_date:"2009.06.29_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO launches second global review of Aid for Trade", ni_intro:"The WTO, its members and key international aid and development organizations will conduct the Second Global Review of Aid for Trade — aimed at expanding the trade capacity of developing countries — on 6-7 July 2009 in Geneva.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AID#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr560_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Partner institutions discuss Aid for Trade", nl_url:"http://wto.streamlogics.com/2009_06_29_aft.wmv", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"8", nl_kb:"15415", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"" } ] }; news_item[1001] = { ni_date:"2009.06.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: Global problems do not respond to unilateral fixes; Copenhagen must be our focus", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in the Climate Thinkers Blog of the UN Climate Change Conference, said “personally, I am of the firm conviction that the relationship between international trade — and indeed the WTO — and climate change would be best defined by a consensual international accord on climate change that successfully embraces all major polluters”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL#ENVIR#CLIM", ni_country:"DNK", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dgpl_29jun09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[1000] = { ni_date:"2009.06.25_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Members discuss trade responses to H1N1 flu", ni_intro:"Exporting countries complained on 23 June 2009 about some of the trade restrictions that have been imposed in response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic, and about failures to notify the WTO, but some others said they had to act to deal with an emergency. 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This is not only bad news for the oceans, it is bad news for the world’s 43.5 million full time fishers.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#ENVIR#RULE#FISH", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Mr Lamy’s statement", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl129_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[987] = { ni_date:"2009.06.05_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: Globalization and trade opening can promote human rights", ni_intro:"The University of Geneva during its celebration of its 450th anniversary on 5 June 2009 conferred the title of doctor honoris causa on Director-General Pascal Lamy along with Dr Lyndon Rees Evans, Mrs Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In his speech, Mr Lamy said “globalization and the opening up of trade can work in favour of universal human rights, by which I mean civil and political rights as well as economic and social rights”. ", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl128_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[986] = { ni_date:"2009.06.02_17:00:00#2009.06.04_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Members conclude consultations with Ecuador on balance-of-payments restrictions", ni_intro:"The Committee on Balance-of-Payments Restrictions, on 4 June 2009, successfully concluded its consultations with Ecuador on trade measures taken for balance-of-payments purposes. Ecuador said the decision showed that WTO members are willing to negotiate pragmatic solutions, and that this sends a good signal for the day-to-day work of the organization. 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This spirit of openness on the part of the WTO will culminate in an Open Day event for the public on 6 September 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RENOV#IGO", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/building_29may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[981] = { ni_date:"2009.06.02_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Selection process begins for the WTO Chairs Programme", ni_intro:"The WTO has started considering applications from universities for its Chairs Programme aimed at supporting trade-related academic activities in developing and least-developed countries. The deadline for submission was 29 May 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#RESE", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"WTO Chairs Programme", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news_e.htm#bkmk981", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"WTO Chairs Programme", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/devel_e/train_e/chairs_prog_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[980] = { ni_date:"2009.05.28_13:30:00#2009.05.29_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO, ADB urge more Aid for Trade efforts to counter the economic crisis", ni_intro:"Ministers, trade officials and senior government officials from around Asia today (28 May 2009) gathered in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to discuss the impact of the global crisis on trade, how Aid for Trade can support private sector growth, and how to include trade into national development strategies. Director-General Pascal Lamy said “to make trade work for the people, we need renewed efforts on Aid for Trade — this is the time for global solidarity.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AID", ni_country:"KHM", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Joint ADB/WTO news item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/a4t_28may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[979] = { ni_date:"2009.05.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO to hold 7th Ministerial Conference on 30 November-2 December 2009", ni_intro:"The WTO General Council, on 26 May 2009, agreed to hold the Seventh Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, from 30 November to 2 December 2009. The general theme for discussion shall be “The WTO, the Multilateral Trading System and the Current Global Economic Environment”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GC#MN09A", ni_country:"URY", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Statement by the Chairman, Amb. 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Mark Muller was addressing the WTO General Council on 26 May 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GC#RENOV", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/gc_26may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[976] = { ni_date:"2009.05.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy receives Oman Renaissance Order", ni_intro:"His Majesty Sultan Qaboos has conferred Oman Renaissance Order (2nd Class) on Director-General Pascal Lamy in appreciation of WTO efforts in cementing ties between countries.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL", ni_country:"OMN", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/oman_26may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[975] = { ni_date:"2009.05.18_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO and Singapore university kickoff course for Asia Pacific officials", ni_intro:"A 12-week training course organized by the WTO and the National University of Singapore for government officials in the Asia-Pacific region began on 18 May 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA", ni_country:"SGP", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tra_18may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[974] = { ni_date:"2009.05.26_17:00:00#2009.05.27_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"“Stress test” of the multilateral trading system still to come — Lamy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his report to the General Council on 26 May 2009 as chair of the Trade Negotiations Committee, said that “it is crucial that we keep our monitoring system on the alert and that we advance towards the conclusion of the Doha Round.” “A more solid house will resist the strong political winds which we unfortunately have to forecast,” he added.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GC#DGPL#DDA#TNC", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Report by the Chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/tnc_chair_report_26may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Statement by Pascal Lamy", nl_url:"/audio/2009_05_26_gc_lamy_stat.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"25", nl_kb:"2978", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Proposed agenda", nl_url:"/english/thewto_e/gcounc_e/meet_may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[973] = { ni_date:"2009.06.24_14:00:00#2009.06.26_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: Morocco", ni_intro:"Further trade reforms in Morocco would sustain economic growth, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"MAR", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp317_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp317_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp317_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"856", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[972] = { ni_date:"2009.05.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Industrial goods negotiations to continue focus on non-tariff trade barriers", ni_intro:"The chair of the Negotiating Group on Non-Agricultural Market Access, Amb. 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The importance of access to data has been brought into sharp relief in the Doha Round negotiations, particularly in the areas of industrial goods and agriculture.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RESE#STAT#IGO", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/rese_18may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Programme and presentations", nl_url:"/english/res_e/statis_e/data_day_may09_e/data_day_may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[968] = { ni_date:"2009.05.14_16:30:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Appellate Body issues compliance report on US-EC “zeroing” dispute", ni_intro:"The Appellate Body, on 14 May 2009, issued its report regarding compliance in the complaint by the European Communities against “United States — Laws, Regulations and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins (“Zeroing”)” (DS294).", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AB#DISP", ni_country:"USA#EEC", ni_cases:"294", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Appellate Body Report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/294abrw_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[967] = { ni_date:"2009.05.12_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Goods Council extends waiver for poorest countries", ni_intro:"The Council for Trade in Goods, on 12 May 2009, approved a ten-year extension to a WTO waiver allowing developing countries to provide preferential tariff treatment to products of least-developed countries (LDCs) without being required to extend the same tariff treatment to other WTO members. The decision now goes to the General Council for adoption.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"GOOD", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/good_12may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[966] = { ni_date:"2009.05.10_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: The world needs a shared vision on food and agricultural trade policy", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in a speech before the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council in Salzburg, Austria, on 10 May 2009, said “food and agricultural trade policy does not operate in a vacuum. In other words, no matter how sophisticated our trade policies may be, if domestic policies do not themselves incentivize agriculture, and internalize negative social and environmental externalities, then we will always have a problem.” ", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#AGRI", ni_country:"AUT", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl124_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[965] = { ni_date:"2009.05.04_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO online courses in French attract 302 developing-country officials", ni_intro:"The WTO has launched two courses in French aimed at providing online training on matters related to international trade and the WTO agreements. The participants are government officials from developing countries and least-developed countries.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TRA#ETR", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/etr_04may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[964] = { ni_date:"2009.05.07_17:00:00#2009.05.08_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: Aid for Trade will help developing countries prepare for after the crisis", ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy, in his address to the Latin America and the Caribbean High-Level Aid for Trade Meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 7 May 2009, said: “Aid for Trade will help developing countries prepare for after the crisis. 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On a yearly basis, there were 208 initiations of new anti-dumping investigations in 2008, as compared to 163 in 2007 and 202 in 2006.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"ANTI#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr556_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[961] = { ni_date:"2009.06.10_17:00:00#2009.06.12_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: New Zealand", ni_intro:"Sustained growth for New Zealand depends on international competitiveness, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"NZL", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp316_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp316_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp316_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"6", nl_kb:"729", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[960] = { ni_date:"2009.05.02_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Joint FAO, OIE, WHO and WTO statement on A(H1N1) virus", ni_intro:"Four global organizations stated on 2 May 2009 that pork products handled in accordance with hygienic practices are not a source of infection.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"IGO#SPS", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Joint statement", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/jt_stat_02may09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[959] = { ni_date:"2009.04.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB establishes panel in US-Mexico tuna case ", ni_intro:"At a meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 20 April 2009, a panel was established regarding US measures prohibiting the labelling of Mexican tuna products as dolphin safe and which, according to Mexico, affects imports, marketing and sale of Mexican tuna. 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In the constellation of global governance, let’s work together to see the WTO star shining ever brighter.” His presentation was made in the context of the Director-General appointment process. 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The Award aims to promote high-quality research on the WTO and WTO-related issues among young economists and to reinforce the relationship between the WTO and the academic community.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"RESE", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/rese_27apr09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[953] = { ni_date:"2009.04.24_18:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy: “Retreating from market opening is not a solution to the economic crisis”", ni_intro:"Economies that are more open will be better placed to stage a faster and stronger recovery once the global crisis comes to an end, said Director-General Pascal Lamy in a speech delivered to the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. on 24 April 2009. Conclusion of the Doha Round “could complement national stimulus packages that many countries such as the United States have put in place”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"USA", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl122_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[952] = { ni_date:"2009.04.24_16:30:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"WTO issues compliance panel report in US “zeroing” case filed by Japan", ni_intro:"The WTO issued on 24 April a compliance panel report under Article 21.5 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) examining the implementation measures by the United States in the dispute “US — Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews” (DS322) brought by Japan.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"USA#JPN", ni_cases:"322", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Panel report", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/322rw_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[951] = { ni_date:"2009.04.20_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"26 government officials begin new WTO training course", ni_intro:"Twenty-six government officials from developing countries, least-developed countries and transition economies began on 20 April 2009 a three-month training course at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva. 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The G20 commitment to provide US$ 250 billion for trade finance shows the capacity of the international community to address urgent global needs by helping to restore trade as an engine of growth.”", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL#TRFIN", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"G20 communiqué", nl_url:"http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/resources/en/news/15766232/communique-020409", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"38", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[945] = { ni_date:"2009.04.03_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"France donates EUR 2 million to WTO development programmes", ni_intro:"France has donated a total of EUR 2 million (about CHF 3 million) to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund (DDAGTF) and to the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF). 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The DSB also adopted the report that examined the US’s complaint against China’s measures affecting the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.", ni_image:"/images/img_mews/dsb_icon06.gif", ni_subject:"DISP", ni_country:"USA#THA#CHN", ni_cases:"362#383#381#332#291#292#293#350", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Summary of the meeting", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/dsb_20mar09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[941] = { ni_date:"2009.05.06_14:00:00#2009.05.08_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: Solomon Islands", ni_intro:"Balanced growth for the Solomon Islands requires more policy coherence, according to a WTO Secretariat report on the country’s trade policies and practices.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"SLB", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp315_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp315_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp315_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"7", nl_kb:"909", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[940] = { ni_date:"2009.03.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Lamy warns against protectionism", ni_intro:"In an interview with the RTBF on 26 March 2009, Director-General Pascal Lamy talked about the danger of protectionism, and underlined the importance of world trade in dealing with problems related to globalization and free trade.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"DGPL", ni_country:"BEL", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Audio: Interview with Pascal Lamy", nl_url:"/audio/2009_03_26_pl_rtbf_f.mp3", nl_lang_id:5, nl_pages:"13", nl_kb:"12274", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[939] = { ni_date:"2009.03.30_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"New WTO online training courses attract over 1,000 participants", ni_intro:"A total of 1,091 government officials from developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) are participating in three online WTO courses, which started on 30 March 2009. 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In London G20 leaders will have a unique opportunity to unite in moving from pledges to action and refrain from any further protectionist measure which will render global recovery efforts less effective,” said Director-General Pascal Lamy.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"STAT#RESE#WEB#PRES", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/news_e/pres09_e/pr554_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Video: Keith Rockwell, WTO Spokesman, interviews Patrick Low, WTO Chief Economist, about the trade figures", nl_url:"http://wto.streamlogics.com/2009_03_20_stats_low.wmv", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"11304", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[935] = { ni_date:"2009.03.19_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Bosnia and Herzegovina reports significant progress in bilateral accession talks", ni_intro:"The head of the Bosnia and Herzegovina’s negotiating team, Mr. Hamdo Tinjak, reported to the Working Party on 19 March 2009 about “significant progress” in its market-access negotiations during the week with Canada, China, the European Union, Japan, Korea, Norway and the United States.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"ACC", ni_country:"BIH", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/acc_bih_19mar09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[934] = { ni_date:"2009.03.12_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Committee focuses on monitoring agriculture commitments", ni_intro:"EU and US domestic support featured among delegations’ questions in a 12 March 2009 committee meeting devoted almost entirely to monitoring how WTO members are implementing their present commitments in agriculture.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"AGRI", ni_country:"EEC#USA", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/ag_com_12mar09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[933] = { ni_date:"2009.03.10_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Trade Finance: Make it work for women", ni_intro:"Deputy Director-General Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza said in a press statement on 10 March 2009 that “women urgently need a gender-specific component built into responses to the international financial crisis to ensure they are not further left out of the shrinking credit pool”.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TECH#IGO#TRFIN#DDG", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/fac_10mar09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[932] = { ni_date:"2009.02.19_17:00:00", ni_pos:"0", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"DSB adopts rulings on EC’s complaint against continued existence and application of zeroing in US", ni_intro:"At its meeting on 19 February 2009, the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) adopted the Panel and Appellate Body reports dealing with the EC’s complaint against the continued existence and application of zeroing methodology in the US (DS 350). 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He was addressing the “Outlook 2009” conference of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), a government economic research agency in Canberra, on the last day of a three-day visit to Australia.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL#AGRI", ni_country:"AUS", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl118_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[927] = { ni_date:"2009.04.06_14:00:00#2009.04.08_12:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"E#F#S", ni_head:"Trade Policy Review: European Communities", ni_intro:"Sustained economic growth in the European Communities will hinge on it continuing to undertake key structural reforms, according to the WTO Secretariat report on the trade policies and practices of the European Communities.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"TPR", ni_country:"EEC", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"Y", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Press release", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp314_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/english/tratop_e/tpr_e/tp314_crc_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" }, { nl_text:"Audio: Chairperson’s concluding remarks", nl_url:"/audio/tp314_closing_remarks_e.mp3", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"8", nl_kb:"886", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[926] = { ni_date:"2009.02.25_17:00:00#2009.02.26_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Work on private food safety and health standards moves to new phase", ni_intro:"WTO members’ examination of private sector standards is moving into its second phase after a group of 30 delegations discussed the responses to a new questionnaire on the issue, the committee dealing with food safety and animal and plant health heard on 26 February 2009.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPS", ni_country:"", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"News item", nl_url:"/english/news_e/news09_e/sps_25feb09_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[925] = { ni_date:"2009.03.02_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Protectionism cannot be ‘smart’, Lamy tells Australian think-tank", ni_intro:"Even “smart” isolationism would be a recipe for a global slump, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Sydney think-tank the Lowy Institute on 2 March 2009, because protectionist measures taken by one government would be replicated by others, creating a domino effect of dire consequences. He was kicking off a series of meetings with Australian leaders of government, business, trades unions and farmers, in which he stressed the need both to resist protectionism and to conclude the Doha Round negotiations.", ni_image:"", ni_subject:"SPPL#DGPL", ni_country:"AUS", ni_cases:"", ni_xlinks:"", ni_links:[ { nl_text:"Speech", nl_url:"/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl117_e.htm", nl_lang_id:0, nl_pages:"", nl_kb:"", nl_dol:"", nl_image:"", nl_quality:"", nl_display:"Y" } ] }; news_item[924] = { ni_date:"2009.02.27_17:00:00", ni_pos:"", ni_embargo:"", ni_embargo_langs:"", ni_head:"Industrial goods chair sees readiness to push forward on technical work", ni_intro:"The chair, Amb. 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