Testing le d’fi fran’ais on Agriculture
According to press reports Mr Chirac told the EU Summit meeting in Hampton Court, England, that France would ‘veto’ a Doha round agreement on Agricultur...
Tag: protection
Timing is (almost) everything in WTO negotiations
A ‘sashay‘ is a figure in square-dancing in which partners circle each other by taking sideways steps, according to the dictionary. It’s a basic move ...
WTO agriculture market access — the movie
You can access the market access proposals, as of about 12 October, here on the ICTSD site along with a fairly good coverage of the latest development...
Review of “Global Trade Advocate” in FT
Alan Beattie, the World Trade Editor for the Financial Times has reviewed Global Trade Advocate. Here’s a link to the non-subscription page version of t...
Agriculture in an Australia-Japan FTA
I was invited to speak, last week, to the 43rd joint council meeting of the Australia-Japan Business Councils on the vexed topic of the inclusion of agr...
The thunderer lets fly
The NY Times blasts trans-Atlantic trade policies: “Listening to these two [EU and USA] economic powerhouses snipe about who should be doing what is rev...