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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”
EAC and EU agree on process towards EAC-EC EPA
Released: 23 November 2007
Framework agreement scheduled to enter into force on 1st January 2008
EPA - Reasons Why Nigeria is a Sitting 'Elephant'
Released: 20 November 2007
The European Union Commissioner for Trade, Mr. Peter Mandelson was quoted recently as saying that Nigeria is "sitting like an elephant in the middle of the road"
The View from Europe
Released: 20 November 2007
In the next two weeks European and Caribbean ministers and their trade negotiators are going to have to explain clearly to business in particular where the negotiating process for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the region has reached and what happens next