Full Coverage: Trade

26.04.2006 Chittagong Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCWCCI), the first women trade body outside the capital has formally launched its activities in the port city on the 25th of April 2006.

19.04.2006 Bangladesh has finalised a list of 1,017 products to try to get duty-free market access to the WTO member countries.It was agreed at the last WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong that 97 per cent of products from the least-developed countries (LDCs) would be allowed duty-free access to the markets of WTO member nations.

18.04.2006 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) report on trends in trade in 2005 and prospects in 2006 highlights the weak spots in terms of economic growth. According to WTO economists, growth in global trade has, in the past decade, been consistently double the growth in the global economy.

17.04.2006 China plans to open up a trade market on the Tibet-India border twice a week from June which will mark the first direct trade link in India's north eastern region since the Sino-Indian border war of 1962.

13.04.2006 World trade organisation director general Pascal Lamy felt the full weight of Indian civil society on a recent visit as he sought to get a sense of the stakeholders' views on the Doha development round of negotiations. From angry farmers to lucid economic experts, he heard the strong views of those who may ultimately be affected by the outcome of the current round of trade talks.

12.04.2006 Centre for Trade & Development and the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Initiative, UNDP Regional Centre, Colombo, are organising a Regional Consultation on 'WTO and South Asia: Strategising Beyond Hong Kong' in New Delhi on April 21-22, 2006.

07.04.2006 The visiting Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Mr Pascal Lamy, contended that India had a large stake in the ongoing negotiations in Doha Development Round in three key areas such as agriculture, industrial tariffs and services

04.04.2006 The launch of the Doha Round in November 2001 was a milestone in itself, as a large number of developing countries were initially not in favour of a new round. They felt that the Uruguay Round had been unfair to them, and wanted their grievances to be addressed before a new round was launched.

03.04.2006 O tema das árvores transgênicas entrou na pauta da COP8 nesta quinta-feira, 30 de março. Coréia e Venezuela apresentaram um texto que pedia a moratória do plantio ou de experimentos com árvores transgênicas, até que houvesse estudos aprofundados sobre a questão.

03.04.2006 The director general knows the ground realities for certain. Despite this, he is making a frantic bid to make the parties come to an agreed conclusion. He will be on a tour to India, this week on April 5-6. This, time he wants to hold discussions with all stakeholders in India.