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No more Yen for whales
Released: 18 June 2008
Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, and his cabinet have taken a decision that will not endear them to the Japan Whaling Association or to some of the governments in nearby Caribbean states
Setting the China Question: A Caribbean challenge
Released: 2 May 2008
In a week which saw the World Health Organisation (WHO) reject Taiwan’s application for membership, and a senior representative of Taiwan hold closed-doors discussion with top officials of the government of China, I was asked on a Caribbean-wide television programme what advice I would give, if asked, to Caribbean governments that maintain diplomatic ties to Taiwan.
Global imbalances and Caribbean development
Released: 2 April 2008
As a former finance minister, and now head of Caribbean operations at a United States-based financial institution, Trinidadian Wendell Mottley is perhaps well placed to speak with authority on the economic problems of the Caribbean, particularly in light of a possible recession in the United States.
Lamy's 2008 Aid-for-Trade roadmap gets green light
Released: 29 February 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy's proposed Aid-for-Trade roadmap
Canada: Recent changes proposed to WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement and Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement
Released: 15 February 2008
Article by Cliff Sosnow, Roy Millen and Christopher Jackson
Europe Trade Pacts Offer New Challenges, Opportunities
Released: 7 February 2008
New trade agreements with Europe have raised legitimate fears for the future of African industry but offer new potential for two-way trade, buttressed by aid and "aid for trade" packages
WTO chairpersons for 2008
Released: 7 February 2008
The WTO General Council Yesterday(6 February) noted the consensus on the following slate of names of chairpersons for WTO Bodies:
Caribbean companies should gird up their loins
Released: 28 January 2008
Caribbean governments should move swiftly to set up national and regional working parties to study the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) that was initialled by negotiators on December 16th
Bahamas and Caricom: potentially good business
Released: 28 January 2008
The Bahamas has an “odd-man-out” relationship with the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom)
How Europe’s trade talks with poor former colonies became mired in mistrust
Released: 17 December 2007
Early in 2005, just a few weeks after taking office as European Union trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson set out a grandiose ambition: to “put trade at the service of development”