Peter Gallagher

A “presentation(link to PDF file: 480kb)”:http://www.petergallagher.com.au/assets/public/ChinaWTOGallagher.pdf I gave a cou­ple of weeks ago to the Australia-China Busi­ness Coun­cil review­ing some of the chal­lenges fac­ing China in the WTO. China’s trade lib­er­al­iza­tion began some time before it’s WTO acces­sion. The adjust­ment press­sures China faces are due to growth (not nec­es­sar­ily trade). We all lose from the anti-dumping …

David Dollar—an author of some of the most inter­est­ing recent “work (link to World Bank, down­load Dol­lar paper)”:http://econ.worldbank.org/view.php?type=5&id=1696 on the rela­tion­ship of trade, growth and poverty ale­vi­a­tion in devel­op­ing coun­tries— “finds”:http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=1934 that peo­ple in the poor­est coun­tries are the most pos­i­tive about glob­al­iza­tion. image from Yale Global Writ­ing for “Yale Global (Yale Global web site)”:http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/ …

Don’t imag­ine that the EU deci­sion on changes to the Com­mon Agri­cul­tural Pol­icy mean a new deal for world agri­cul­ture mar­kets. To really open up world food mar­kets and help the world’s poor­est peo­ple achieve bet­ter incomes and greater food secu­rity we need a new approach to the WTO agri­cul­ture nego­ti­a­tions but his­tory says the …

An infor­mal sum­mary of the non-agricultural mar­ket access pro­pos­als put for­ward by the Chair of the WTO nego­ti­at­ing group Pierre-Louis Girard (Switzer­land) in the WTO doc­u­ment TN/MA/W/35 on 16 May, 2003 (“download”:http://docsonline.wto.org:80/DDFDocuments/t/tn/ma/W35.doc from WTO) that have pleasedno one much. They have, how­ever, one inno­v­a­tive aspect that has caused some devel­op­ing coun­tries to reassess their inter­est …

meta-creation_date: Jun 21, 2003 The tiny Pacific island coun­try of “Palau”:http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ps.html has become the 50th state to rat­ify the “Protocol”:http://www.biodiv.org/biosafety/ratification.asp to the Con­ven­tion on Bio­di­ver­sity, bring­ing it into force. Even­tu­ally, this will cre­ate con­flict between the Con­ven­tion and the WTO Agree­ment on San­i­tary and Phy­tosan­i­tary Mea­sures (SPS). The Con­ven­tion (and the overblown “Rio Dec­la­ra­tion” on …

meta-creation_date: Jun 20, 2003 Update: The NY Times reports that the US/EU talks have “collapsed”:http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/international/europe/20TRAD.html. No sur­prise. There’s no sanc­tion for hypocrisy in inter­na­tional rela­tions. Just as well. Because Aus­tralia andthe EU are dis­put­ing trade bar­ri­ers in WTO with a sen­si­tiv­ity to each other’s faults exceeded only by blind­ness to their own. Along with the …

On 10 June, I gave a pre­sen­ta­tion at the ESCAP Regional Senior Offi­cials Meet­ing on prepa­ra­tions for the Can­cún WTO Min­is­te­r­ial meet­ing. The slides show the impact of trade bar­ri­ers on devel­op­ing coun­try trade in indus­trial and min­er­als prod­ucts with spe­cial ref­er­ence to the effect of bar­ri­ers in other devel­op­ing coun­tries (which tend to be …