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27 July 2017
Vingt pays sur 26 ont désormais signé l’accord instituant la Zone de libre-échange tripartite (ZLET ou Tripartite), Madagascar ayant signé le texte le 13 juillet 2017 à Antanarivo, la capitale du pays. Deux jours avant, l’Afrique du Sud avait elle aussi signé l’accord de la ZLET lors d’une réunion...
21 December 2016
Passerelles s’est entretenu avec Mathias Ismaïl, président du directoire d’OSO Group S.A. et directeur général de R&O Seafood Gastronomy, afin de jeter un éclairage sur un ambitieux projet qui, par une vision stratégique claire et une approche déterminée, est parvenu à faire des normes de...
20 December 2016
Bridges Africa met with Mathias Ismaïl, Chair of OSO Group S.A. and Chief Executive of R&O Seafood Gastronomy, in order to shed light on an ambitious project that has successfully turned sustainability standards into the driving force behind its business model thanks to a clear strategic vision...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
17 February 2014
Two months after the WTO's ninth ministerial conference in Bali, Indonesia, talks on the organisation's farm trade agenda remain shrouded in uncertainty, officials say. Key questions, negotiators told Bridges, include which issues the membership should tackle next, and what is the best approach to...
17 February 2014
Trade Facilitation: What's in it for least developed and developing countries? Ministers formally signed off on their first multilateral trade deal in nearly two decades on 7 December 2013 in Bali, after intense and difficult negotiations. The final agreement contains decisions on the three pillars...
7 December 2013
For a PDF version of this story, please click here . Ministers formally signed off on their first multilateral trade deal in nearly two decades on Saturday morning in Bali, after several suspenseful days - and nights - of meetings that had often seemed too close to call. "Ladies and gentlemen, I am...
28 November 2013
Trade ministers are set to meet in the Indonesian island province of Bali from 3-6 December for the WTO’s Ninth Ministerial Conference, in a meeting that has been touted - for better or worse - as a turning point for the 159-member organisation. Yet on the eve of the conference, what will actually...
28 November 2013
Improving the trading prospects of developing countries was the Doha Round’s “raison d’être” when the negotiations began in 2001. Prior to the Round’s launch, the organisation had been subjected to harsh scrutiny by some critics who charged that its rules, in their current form, placed too much of...
15 November 2013
Shankar D. Bairagi is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the World Trade Organization. He is also the Coordinator of LDCs consultative group in WTO. The LDC package to be harvested at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ninth Ministerial Conference (MC9) to be held in...
15 November 2013
What is the way forward for LDCs in a post-Bali and post-Doha context? Because of their structural handicaps reflected in low income levels, high economic vulnerability and weak human assets, least-developed countries (LDCs) face particular challenges in integrating into the global economy. As the...