Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Our World Is Not For Sale Network
Many people have heard about the WTO opening up markets in services and agriculture, with negative impacts on farmers, public services and the environment world-wide. But now the rest of the world is also up for sale at the World Trade Organization (WTO), as governments plan to liberalise all (…)
, by KHOR Martin
The week beginning 7 November will be critical in determining the prospects of the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial conference.
The WTO leadership will be going all out to make a big push - perhaps the last - to save the Hong Kong meeting from being a failure, or a “non-event.”
On Monday, a meeting (…)
, by CARLSEN Laura
We hope to add soon the two firts talks.
TALKING POINTS #3 - CAFTA and AFTA
A central component of the U.S. trade strategy is using bilateral and subregional trade agreements to leverage increased liberalization of trade and investment flows at the regional and global levels. The Central (…)
, by Our World Is Not For Sale Network
Civil society groups today are sending the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy an open letter (attached) slamming the highly undemocratic and deceptive process used to manufacture the services section of the draft Ministerial Declaration for Hong Kong.
The process used has completely redefined (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
Welcome to the Focus on the Global South’s Derailer’s (1) Guide to the WTO
From 13-18 December 2005, trade ministers and delegations from the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) 148 country members will meet in Hong Kong at the WTO’s sixth Ministerial Conference. (2)
As farmers, fishers, (…)
, by CURTIS Mark
In the run-up to the World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong in December, the European Union is leading a big push to deepen ‘free trade’ in poor countries and open their economies to business exporters in rich countries. This grab for new markets is taking place behind an enormous amount (…)
, by KHOR Martin
The European Union on Friday 28 October afternoon presented a new proposal on agriculture which also contains its demands on other areas, especially services and non agricultural market access.
It makes offers to reduce its agricultural tariffs by much less than what has been demanded of it by (…)
, by GUE/NGL
Contents
Introduction
Mini-glossary
1. The WTO: from Marrakech to Hong Kong
1.1. Looking back 1.2. The Doha negotiation programme
2. Agricultural negotiations
3. Opening of the markets to non-agricultural products
4. Implementing the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) (…)
, by IATP, SMALLER Carin
Dear all, Please find below a new analysis by IATP on the latest U.S. Proposal on Agriculture Negotiations at the WTO. The U.S. proposal claims to want a zero-tariff, zero-trade-distorting support model for agriculture. This vision - not supported by Congress or U.S. farm organizations - would (…)
, by KWA Aileen
“What the US has done is deceptive and misleading”, delegate of a small country to the WTO, denouncing the public relations spin that the US and EU had made huge concessions.
In informal conversations with African and Caribbean delegates to the WTO, many countries have expressed anger at the (…)
, by GUE/NGL
Geneva,
On the eve of the meeting of the WTO General Council, a delegation of MEPs representing the European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) at the European Parliament was in Geneva. The delegation included the Group’s President, Mr Francis Wurtz (France) and MEPs Helmuth Markov (…)
, by Movements (international)
No Deal in the Hong Kong Ministerial! WTO Out of Food and Agriculture!
With only two months to go before the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Sixth Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong, pressure is mounting among WTO delegates to come up with an agreement to save the WTO from the humiliation of (…)
, by CPI, CPI (M), Forward Bloc, RSP (Australia)
Given the structural inequality and asymmetry that is built in the WTO agreement, which favours the developed countries, India’s long-term interests are best served by making common cause with the developing countries.
Document presented by several Left Parties in Parliament: the Communist (…)
, by Movements (international)
Signatures updated, end of October, 2005.
In the run up to the December 2005 Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong, trade negotiators are under intense pressure by their respective governments to achieve a „successful‰ outcome in the negotiations for the (…)
, by BERTHELOT Jacques
1. The European Commissioner for trade relations and the Head of the US Trade Department have just made reduction proposals of their trade-distorting agricultural domestic supports apparently impressive in order to unlock the Doha Round negotiations and to prompt developing countries to make (…)
, by KHOR Martin
The Group of 33, which represents the defensive interests of small farmers in developing countries, has criticised the US proposal on market access in agriculture as not taking the principle of special and differential treatment (SDT) seriously.
It has also expressed concern and unhappiness (…)
, by Goh Chien Yen
The European Union in the negotiations of the past few days has reiterated that concessions that it gives in agriculture will have to be linked to real market access openings in developing countries in industrial goods and services.
This was made clear by EC Trade Commissioner, Peter (…)
, by HKPA
by Hong Kong People’s Alliance Against WTO (HKPA) (1)
Hong Kong has long enjoyed the status of one of the world’s great trading centers. But now many Hong Kong civil society organizations are banding together under the slogan “Kong Yee Sai Mau!” (Cantonese for “Protest World Trade (…)
, by La Via Campesina
WTO out of agriculture
, by Pakistan Movements
Pakistan CSOs on the G20
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