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TWN Info
Service on WTO and Trade Issues (Apr09/06) Goods
Council approves waivers for US trade-preference programmes Geneva, 25 Mar (Kanaga Raja) -- The WTO Council for Trade in Goods on Tuesday approved long-standing waiver requests from the United States on three trade-preference programmes, namely, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) and the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA). The Goods Council agreed to forward the draft waiver decisions to the General Council for its adoption. (According
to trade officials, the three waiver requests have been awaiting approval
for about four years on account of two members -- In other actions, the Goods Council also agreed on a slate of chairpersons of its subsidiary bodies for this year. At
the regular meeting of the Council on Tuesday, the According
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to the paper, textiles and clothing sector is quite essential for setting
the ground for development of many countries. The initial economic development
of all leading economies like According
to the statistics, today textiles and clothing takes an important slice
of the world merchandise trade, covering $583.4 billion, while developing
economies handle more than two-thirds of world clothing and more than
one-half of world textiles exports, said The
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to trade officials, The
Goods Council Chair, Ambassador Karen Tan of The Chair also noted the recent notification of free trade agreements between Japan and the Philippines, the EC and Cote d'Ivoire, the US and Oman, the US and Peru, Turkey and Georgia, China and Singapore, and Australia and Chile. The
Council approved the 2009 slate of chairs of its subsidiary bodies,
and elected by acclamation its new Chair, Ambassador Elin Ostebo Johansen
( The 2009 chairpersons are as follows: Committee on Market Access -- Mr. Barney Riley (New Zealand); Committee on Agriculture -- Ms. Valeria Csukasi (Uruguay); Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures -- Ms. Miriam Chaves (Argentina); Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices -- Mr. Pasquale de Micco (Italy); Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures -- Mr. Raimundas Liskauskas (Lithuania); Committee on Safeguards -- Ms. Dineswaree Mohun (Mauritius); Committee on Import Licensing -- Mr. Marco J. Kassaja (Tanzania); Committee on Rules of Origin -- Ms. Vera Thorstensen (Brazil); Committee on Customs Valuation -- Dr. Mohammad Saeed (Pakistan); Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade -- Mr. Ami Levin (Israel); Committee on TRIMs -- Mr. Vasile Radu (Romania); Working Party on State Trading Enterprises -- Mr. Haitao Zhu (China); and ITA Committee -- Mr. Khalid Emara (Egypt). +
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