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7 March 2017
Este artigo discute como as transformações nos fluxos de serviços desafiam o repertório atual de regras sobre comércio e investimento. Partindo de uma análise sobre as principais dinâmicas envolvidas nesse desafio, o autor faz recomendações para que o potencial do setor de serviços de contribuir para o desenvolvimento seja aproveitado.
22 December 2016
Este 2016 marcó un hito en las relaciones internacionales, incluidas las de comercio. Fuimos testigos del proceso Brexit y del triunfo de Donald Trump en la elección presidencial de Estados Unidos, aun cuando los pronósticos de numerosas encuestas y mediciones daban como ganadora a Hillary Clinton...
22 December 2016
La tecnología, la “servicificación” creciente de la producción y la dependencia del comercio, acompañados del crecimiento de los ingresos asociados con el desarrollo económico y una productividad mejorada se han combinado para convertir a los servicios en una parte aún más grande de la actividad...
10 March 2016
Le nombre de pays ayant ratifié l’Accord sur la facilitation des échanges (AFE) de l’OMC continue d’augmenter. Avec le Paraguay, dont l’instrument de ratification a été déposé le 1 er mars auprès de l’OMC, ce sont désormais 70 États membres qui ont confirmé leur acceptation des termes de l’accord...
24 November 2015
On 18 November, the EU notified the WTO Council of Trade in Services of the preferential treatment which it intends to make available to services and service suppliers of the global trade body’s poorest members. In doing so, the EU joins other WTO members who have responded to the commitments made...
12 August 2015
Niger became the first LDC country, and the twelfth WTO member, to sign the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) on 6 August. The instrument of acceptance of the TFA was presented by Niger’s ambassador, Ado Elhadji Abou, to WTO Director-General, Roberto Azevêdo. The other eleven members that have...
25 June 2015
Bangladesh, on behalf of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group, advanced a request for a dedicated session of the Committee on Trade and Development (CTD) to discuss the implementation of duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access for LDCs. The letter dated 10 June 2015 and addressed to the...
11 May 2015
Les PMA ont soumis aux membres de l’OMC un document , intitulé « Éléments de discussions sur les règles d’origine préférentielles pour les PMA », lors de la réunion du 30 avril du comité sur les règles d’origine. Ce dernier, présenté par le Bangladesh au nom du groupe des PMA, vise à stimuler une...
9 February 2015
Several WTO members indicated concrete sectors and modes of supply where they intend to provide preferential treatment to least developed countries’ (LDCs) services and services suppliers at a high-level meeting on 5 February. Most of the preferences presented at last Thursday’s WTO Council for...
12 November 2014
Проявить творческое лидерство и вдохнуть новую энергию в поиск решений для реализации Балийских договоренностей пообещали министры стран Азиатско-Тихоокеанского региона на встрече, которая прошла в Пекине 7-8 ноября 2014 года. Они также поддержали идею создания новой зоны свободной торговли,...
10 November 2014
В своем выступлении 31 октября 2014 г. Генеральный директор ВТО Роберту Азеведу призвал членов организации дать стимул переговорам по осуществлению Балийского пакета соглашений. Напомним, что в июле этого года Индия отказалась поддержать принятие Генеральным советом ВТО Протокола о вступлении в...
25 July 2014
Earlier this week, the WTO’s poorest members, known as the Least Developed Country (LDC) Group, submitted a collective request regarding the preferential treatment they would like to see for their services and service suppliers. The move comes seven months after the global trade body’s ministerial...
24 July 2014
Indian officials indicated late on Wednesday that they would not be able to support the implementation of the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) unless they see their concerns on food security addressed, according to multiple media reports. The news, coming just ahead of a key WTO meeting,...
24 July 2014
Earlier this week, the WTO’s poorest members, known as the Least Developed Country (LDC) Group, submitted a collective request regarding the preferential treatment they would like to see for their services and service suppliers. The move comes seven months after the global trade body’s ministerial...
23 July 2014
Os ministros do Comércio dos países do G-20 – grupo que reúne as maiores economias do mundo – comprometeram-se, em 19 de julho, reunidos em Sidney (Austrália), a colocar em prática as normas de facilitação do comércio, como forma de impulsionar o crescimento econômico mundial. Na declaração...
9 July 2014
The divide among WTO members over the implementation of the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) has continued to persist in recent weeks, despite an end-July deadline to agree on a protocol of amendment that would bring the deal into the organisation’s overall legal framework. The TFA was the...
8 May 2014
The October deadline for African countries to conclude their Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the EU took centre stage at a meeting of African Union (AU) trade ministers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with countries remaining divided over the path forward. During last week’s meeting,...
8 May 2014
WTO members should continue their efforts to quickly implement the trade facilitation agreement inked in Bali, Indonesia last December, trade ministers meeting in Paris on Wednesday said at an informal mini-ministerial hosted by Australia. The annual trade ministers gathering on the sidelines of...
10 April 2014
Efforts to develop a work programme aimed at revamping the stalled Doha Round negotiations are ready to enter a "second stage," WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo reported to the global trade body on Monday, after four months of preliminary consultations among members. "In all these conversations...
9 April 2014
What kind of homework will LDCs need to do if they are to take advantage of the WTO MC9 decisions? For the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the WTO (MC9) held in Bali, Indonesia on 3-7 December, 2013 was of high importance on several counts. Firstly, MC9 was...