[CTC_TRADE] CTC Trade Reform Strategy Session -- Setting 2010 Priorities

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WTO Lamy: Doha Trade Pact Possible In '10, Wouldn't Say Probable
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Wall Street Journal -
<http://news.google.com/news/search?cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=author%3A%22Tom+Ba
rkley%22&scoring=n> Tom Barkley - ‎Feb 26, 2010‎

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy said
Friday that completing the Doha round of ... 

 


Mustapa: Doha talks may be called off
<http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/aec282/Article/>  


Business Times - Malaysia - ‎Feb 28, 2010‎

THE Doha Development Agenda (DDA), the current trade-negotiation round of
the World Trade Organisation (WTO) which started in November 2001, may be
called ... 

 


International <http://www.financierworldwide.com/article.php?id=6244>  Trade
At The Cross-roads? 


Financier Worldwide -
<http://news.google.com/news/search?cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=author%3A%22Lawren
ce+L.+Herman%22&scoring=n> Lawrence L. Herman - ‎5 hours ago‎

The world moves on. The question is whether it will move so far and so fast
as to leave the World Trade Organization (WTO) behind. ... 

 


Weak Doha trade deal would hurt WT0, US says
<http://in.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idINIndia-46569320100301>  


Reuters India - ‎Mar 1, 2010‎

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday defended its position in
the eight-year-old Doha round of world trade talks, saying it could not
agree to ... 

 

 

 

Political will needed to finish Doha – Lamy

Published: 28 Feb 2010 19:54:57 PST 

 

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 - World
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/world.html>  leaders need to summon
the political will to run "the last lap" this year and finish the
eight-year-old Doha <http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/doha.html>
round of world <http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/world.html>  trade
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/trade.html>  talks
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/talks.html> , the head of the World
Trade Organization
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/world-trade-organization.html>  said
on Friday.

"G20 <http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/g20.html>  leaders said last
year they wanted to finish this during 2010. It remains to be seen whether
this political guidance translates into running the last lap," WTO
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/wto.html>  Director General Pascal
Lamy said in a speech by video.

Lamy said it was technically achievable to resolve manufacturing
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/manufacturing.html>  and agriculture
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/agriculture.html>  issues this year
that have long blocked conclusion of the round.

The overwhelming majority of WTO members are eager to get an agreement, but
"here and there some constituencies are resistant," Lamy told the Bretton
Wood Committee, a group which supports U.S
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/u.s.html> . engagement in major
multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/international-monetary-fund.html>
and World <http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/world-bank.html>  Bank.

The WTO's 153 members will take stock
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/stock.html>  at the end of March on
whether the Doha round can be finished in 2010, as called for by the Group
of 20 leading developed and developing nations at their meeting in
Pittsburgh last year.

Lamy said he would not offer an opinion on whether the political will
actually existed to get a deal.

But he said the most important thing leaders could do on the trade front to
help the global economy
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/global-economy.html>  grow was to
"keep trade open and, second, keep opening trade."

The world trading system has survived the financial crisis
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/financial-crisis.html>  without
significant protection, he said.

"Overall, the system of disciplines has worked. The world system is no less
open than it was at the beginning of the crisis
<http://news.alibaba.com/article/list/1/crisis.html> ," he said.

But "we are not out of the woods" because of high unemployment in many
countries that could trigger protectionist moves, Lamy said.

 

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