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19 December 2000
This is the last issue of ICTSD's BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest for the year 2000. The first issue of 2001 -- Vol. 5, No. 1 -- will be published on 16 January. The producers, together with the rest of the ICTSD team, would like to thank our reporting contributors all over the World and our...
19 December 2000
Delegates met for the first Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee (ICCP-1) for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in Montpellier, France, from 11-15 December to discuss issues related to information sharing; capacity building; decision-making; handling, transport, packaging and identification...
19 December 2000
The final 2000 meeting of the WTO General Council Special Session on Implementation last week (15-16 December), produced little in ways of progress for developing country demands at the global trade body. In what WTO Director-General Mike Moore termed a "modest, meagre result," Members essentially...
19 December 2000
From 11-14 December -- three months after the World Meteorological Organisation announced that an unusually rapid rate of ozone depletion above the Antarctica heralded the onset of summer in the Southern Hemisphere -- the 12th Meeting of the Parties (MOP-12) to the Montreal Protocol on Substances...
19 December 2000
The Office of the US Trade Representative and the US Council on Environmental Quality last week released the final guidelines for implementing Executive Order "Environmental Review of Trade Agreements" -- signed by President Bill Clinton in November 1999. The order commits the US to assess and...
19 December 2000
Delegates emerging from the 7-15 December meetings of the Animals and Plants Committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Shepherdstown, US, expressed their satisfaction with progress made. The meetings raised the ongoing issue of...
19 December 2000
ECOLOGICAL STUDIES. Schumacher College in Devon, England, offers a number of scholarship places on its 4-23 February 2001 course "The Market: Master or Servant?" is being taught by Wolfgang Sachs, Martin Khor and David Jenkins. Applications should be submitted before the end of December. For more...
19 December 2000
CHILE-US FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IN MOTION. Negotiations towards a Chile- US Free Trade Agreement have begun, and, according to Chilean Finance Minister Nicolas Eyzaguirre, the talks will be completed by the end of 2001. The inclusion of environmental and labour provisions in the agreement remains...
19 December 2000
WTO DELIBERATES LOCATION OF NEXT MINISTERIAL. According to trade sources, the WTO is expected to announce the venue for its next Ministerial early in 2001. Thus far, only Qatar has made a formal offer to host the event, while it is expected that Chile will formally offer its capital, Santiago, as...
19 December 2000
Coming Up This Week For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD's web calendar at: http://ictsd.iisd.org/html/calendar.htm 11-22 December, Bonn, Germany: FOURTH SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION TO COMBAT...
19 December 2000
If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to hcameron@ictsd.ch . Submissions of publications...
12 December 2000
On 7-8 December the WTO General Council convened for its last formal session for 2000, tackling a variety of issues while pushing some of the more contentious ones forward to 2001. Inter alia, discussions were held on the state of the global trading system; observer status for international...
12 December 2000
On 1 December and again on 5-6 December, the WTO Council for Trade in Services met in Special Session to negotiate further liberalisation of trade in services as mandated by Article XIX of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Services trade liberalisation under the GATS constitutes...
12 December 2000
Following a week of negotiations lasting well into the last night, delegates from 122 countries on early Sunday morning agreed to ban 12 highly toxic, long-lasting chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) for...
12 December 2000
At a meeting of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) on 12 December, the EU submitted a second request for a panel to be established to resolve a trade dispute with Chile over Chile's restrictions on the importation and transit of swordfish (see BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest, Vol. 4, No. 44, 21...
12 December 2000
According to a recently released World Bank report, the year 2000 yielded the highest increase in world trade volumes since the pre-oil crisis 1970s. If the trend continues, trade volumes will reach 12.5 percent growth by the end of the year, according to the study. Despite these figures, the...
12 December 2000
"Biotechnology: Challenges and Opportunities" was the subject of a Panel discussion convened on 6 December by ICTSD, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the South Centre. The panellists, Calestous Juma of Harvard University and Arturo Martinez from Argentina's Ministry of...
12 December 2000
The Integrated Framework (IF) was a major item on the agenda for the 22nd Session of the WTO's Sub-Committee on Least-Developed Countries (LDCs), which met in 6 December. The Framework is the central programme governing technical cooperation for LDCs, and is coordinated together with five other...
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