A. Most Recent Negotiations and Events in WTO (including post-Doha and post-Cancun news)

• Lamy candidacy will polarize WTO, may endanger trading system itself
  
• WTO secretariat back-tracking on textile study?
  
• Internet gambling case ruling important for future GATS disputes
  
• Incoherence is rational, when trade-off costs outweigh benefits
• Financial services talks as contentious as overall Doha talks
• Looking for ways for consultations on ATC adjustment questions
• Extending ATC may unravel UR accords, endanger Doha talks
• CTG to discuss ATC integration process, post-ATC adjustment
• GTAP and discordance of wearing apparel in textiles
• Questionable economic modelling in Byrd amendment arbitration
• A willing-to-hit, afraid-to-wound WTO study on the ATC?
• South short-changed in agriculture by US, EC sleight of hand?
• Time ripe for WTO transparency, inclusiveness, orderly procedures?
• From euphoria over Doha talks, to 'ownership' and advocacy?
• Giving away more policy space under NAMA?
• WTO agrees on framework package on Doha talks
• Minor triumph for multilateralism, says Supachai
• Widening divergences over July package
• Final revised text on 28 July, says GC chair
• North tactics to split developing-country alliances exposed
• Revised framework won't make serious changes
• Supachai warns against too many amendments in draft text
• Framework for modalities or 'platform' for future careers?
• Agriculture framework, an asymmetric Doha-minus
  
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• Motions without movement at WTO (C.Raghavan)
• Implementation issues again off the WTO radar screens? (C.Raghavan)
• Cancun - part of journey, impasse, or breakdown? (C.Raghavan)
• Cancun I, Cancun II and trying to repeat rewritten history? (C.Raghavan)
• Has WTO learnt anything out of Cancun? (C.Raghavan)
• No easy answers for how to proceed after Cancun (C.Raghavan)
• ACP and African Union role in Cancun - some reflections, lessons (C.Patel)
• Self-serving post-Cancun versions add to distrust (C.Raghavan)
• Tariff and non-tariff barriers benefit developing countries - new study (C.Raghavan)
• Process and substance caused failure at Cancun (C.Raghavan)
• Civil society hails Cancun failure, some ask Lamy to resign (C.Raghavan)
• Mexico tilts draft even more to favour US and EU (C.Raghavan)
• Anti-development in substance and process (M.Khor and T.Hormeku)
• Ministerial's fate hangs on a thread (M.Khor)
• Will G-20 coalition endure and save WTO system? (C.Raghavan)
• Castillo cover note claims transparent and inclusive process! (C.Raghavan)
• Cancun, in process and procedure, to repeat Doha? (C.Raghavan)
• Medicines won't be cheaper under TRIPS and Public Health decision (C.Raghavan)
• Cancun text sheds 'development' from agenda (C.Raghavan)
• Cancun draft text flawed, imbalanced, say developing countries (M.Khor)
• NGOs criticise Cancun draft, preparatory process (K.Raja)
• Revised Cancun draft text sets stage for failure? (C.Raghavan)
• Implementation issues, S&D treatment get short shrift (C.Raghavan)
• Non-transparent, manipulative processes under way at WTO (C.Raghavan)
• WTO shifting gear from 'modalities' to 'framework' (M.Khor)
• Chairpersons abuse their powers in WTO talks
• Jenny gives three 'options' on competition for Cancun
• EC and Japan prepare new draft texts on Singapore issues for Cancun
• Still in the dark on the road to Cancun
• A skeleton inside an untransparent process
• More manipulations ahead on road to, and at Cancun?
• India's WTO ambassador calls for investment issue to be dropped after Cancun
• A WTO Daniel comes to the rescue of majors on differentiation (C.Raghavan)
• Supachai attempts to project air of confidence on Doha talks (C.Raghavan)
• TNC meet shows "stormy" ministerial ahead at Cancun (C.Raghavan)
• US and EU hold informals to review state of play to Cancun (K.Raja)
• Doha deadlines on developing-country issues will be missed (C.Raghavan)
• US zero-tariff proposal get tepid to negative reactions (C.Raghavan)
• Ricupero, two LDC ministers debunk US zero-tariff proposal (C.Raghavan)
• New Zealand, EC aim at developing countries on industrial tariffs (C.Raghavan)
• Taking away at Geneva what was given at Doha? (C.Raghavan)
• Quad and its friends try to bury TRIMs review talks (C.Raghavan)
• Scrooge's gift from rich nations to Third World at WTO (C.Raghavan)
• Doha deadlines on developing country issues will be missed (C.Raghavan)
• Investment rules need investors and home government obligations (C.Raghavan)
• Supachai and Harbinson endorse exclusive WTO Meetings (Aileen Kwa)
• Mother-of-all escape clause in proposed internal transparency decision
• US caveats on S&D, wants 'full integration' of developing countries
• Lots of zeros still add up only to zero for developing world
• Elusive chase for Doha's S&D promises?
• CTD Special Session stuck on basics
• Snow-job underway on Doha agendas on S&D and implementation?
• Moves to expand Doha mandate on investment talks
• Competition policies should be outside WTO
• Market access talks run along neo-mercantilist lines (C.Raghavan)
• Views on modalities advanced at non-agricultural market access group (C. Raghavan)
• Doha package may unravel, WTO warned (C.Raghavan)
• CTD puts off till 31 December recommendations on S&D (C.Raghavan)
• Closing window of opportunity to reform WTO system? (C.Raghavan)
• Majors holding out lollipops for developing countries? (C.Raghavan)
• Doha-style democracy for WTO at Cancun? (C.Raghavan)
• US 'leads' in making more mercantilist demands on the South (C.Raghavan)
• POST-DOHA REPORTS
• TWN DETAILED REPORT ON WTO AND TRADE SYSTEM
  TWN's report on The Multilateral Trading System: A Development Perspective is a detailed review and assessment of the WTO, with many proposals for reform.
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• No accord yet on WTO work programme on debt and technology (C.Raghavan) April 2002
• One-size-fit-all system needs flexible procedures for itself! (C.Raghavan)
• LMG calls for principles and procedures for Ministerial Conferences (C.Raghavan)
• The new work programme of the WTO (B.L.Das)
  A new major paper by the renowned trade expert Mr Bhagirath Lal Das on the WTO's new work programme resulting from the Doha Ministerial Conference. This paper was presented at a TWN-organised forum for developing countries' delegations held in the UN building in Geneva on 8 April 2002.
• WTO negotiating bodies' chairs named, after another non-transparent process (C.Raghavan)
• WTO endorses TNC principles and practices and negotiating structures (C.Raghavan)
• G77, China thwart EU attempt to reinterpret Doha (M.Khor)
• Civil society groups call for a genuine 'development agenda' (K.Raja)
• Africa Group conveys views on TNC to Harbinson (C.Raghavan)
• General Council chair begins informal consultations on TNC (C.Raghavan)
• Mexico to host next WTO ministerial (C.Raghavan)
• NGOs reject Doha outcome and its 'manipulative' process (K.Raja)
• WTO secretariat 'reorganizes for new round' (C.Raghavan)
• WTO needs serious introspection about its fairness (C.Raghavan)
• Technical cooperation, capacity building and Doha work programme (C.Patel)
• Member-driven or secretariat-driven process? (C.Raghavan)
• Institutionalizing the 'green men' of Doha at WTO? (C.Raghavan)
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• OTHER PRE-DOHA REPORTS
• ACP countries issue a common position on Doha Ministerial (Y.Tandon) 8 Nov 2001
• ITCB members express disappointmant over ATC implementation (K.Raja) 8 Nov 2001
• Geneva process being further illegitimized (C.Raghavan) 7 Nov 2001
• NGOs condemn Doha draft Declaration and 'biased' process (M.Khor) 7 Nov 2001
• Attempts to repeat Seattle 'decision-making process' at Doha? (C.Raghavan) 4 Nov 2001
• Harbinson ignores lack of consensus, sends drafts to Doha (C.Raghavan) 1 Nov 2001
• WTO meet endangered by own draft declaration, not bombs (G.Capdevila) 1 Nov 2001
• Chairman Harbinson and DG Moore act rulelessly at WTO (C.Raghavan) 31 Oct 2001
• Present alternative views to one-sided draft, demands Nigeria (C.Raghavan) 30 Oct 2001
• WTO drafts biassed towards the North, charge NGOs (K.Raja) 30 Oct 2001
• Analysis of revised draft declaration and suggested response (B.L.Das)
• Harbinson's draft for economic talibanisation of WTO (C.Raghavan) 28 Oct 2001
• Public health vs corporate welfare choices for Doha (C.Raghavan) 28 Oct 2001
• Delays in formulating revised drafts (C.Raghavan) 26 Oct 2001
• Study process, no negotiations on industrial tariffs, says Africa (M.Khor) 26 Oct 2001
• ASEAN-CCI against new WTO round and new issues
• Launch a new round, and promote employment (at WTO) (C.Raghavan) 25 Oct 2001
• Talks on TRIPS and public health break down (C.Raghavan) 25 Oct 2001
• Provide options to Ministers an 'sensitive' issues, GC chair told (C.Raghavan) 25 Oct 2001
• 'Opt out' option for investment talks dangerous myth (B.L.Das) 24 Oct 2001
• Africa, LDCs, India reject 'opt-out' and variations on investment talks (C.Raghavan) 24 Oct 2001
• G77 and China seek redressal of 'development deficit' at WTO (C.Raghavan) 23 Oct 2001
• More members speak up, but to what avail? (C.Raghavan) 23 Oct 2001
• WTO coup for a new round or aborted putsch? (C.Raghavan) 22 Oct 2001
• Ministerial meet mess now beyond trade diplomats, say trade officials (C.Raghavan)19 Oct 2001
• NGOs to WTO - 'Don't retreat behind closed doors!' (K.Raja) 19 Oct 2001
• WTO in a tizzy, Qatar ready to receive WTO (C.Raghavan) 18 Oct 2001
• The WTO, Developing Countries and the Media (K.Raja) 18 Oct 2001
• Africa Group proposals on TRIPS for WTO Ministerial
• Developing countries' responses to TRIPS in WTO's draft declaration
• WTO takes another hit over lack of credibility, transparency (C.Raghavan) 17 Oct 2001
• Agriculture, GATS accords working against consumers, developing world (C.Raghavan) 16 Oct 2001
• By any other name, at any other place, a round will still be the same (C.Raghavan) 15 Oct 2001
• Cairns, US, EC, Korea voice dissatisfactions on agriculture text (C.Raghavan) 11 Oct 2001
• Southern business opposes new issues (C.Raghavan) 11 Oct 2001
• Deadlock over Doha public health declaration (C.Raghavan) 10 Oct 2001
• WTO logjam, members evenly divided on investment, competition issues (C.Raghavan) 10 Oct 2001
• Harbinson circulates text on agriculture (C.Raghavan) 8 Oct 2001
• Agriculture text appears to revise WTO agreement mandate (C.Raghavan) 8 Oct 2001
• Doha meet will go ahead, says Moore (C.Raghavan) 8 Oct 2001
• False premises for a new round (R.Reddy)
• Least developed spell out clear objections (C.Raghavan) 5 Oct 2001
• Agricultural compromise text is 'fig leaf' for Cairns (C.Raghavan) 5 Oct 2001
• Major differences, gaps remain on Doha and beyond (C.Raghavan) 4 Oct 2001
• Draft declaration work to be moved forward, ignoring objections (C.Raghavan) 3 Oct 2001
• Harbinson, Moore drafts widen gaps at WTO (C.Raghavan) 3 Oct 2001
• Developing countries speak in WTO on new issues, Round (TWN) 12 Oct 2001
• Implementation issues dealt with casually (B.L.Das) 2 Oct 2001
• Harbinson-Moore Implementation package doesn't fly (C.Raghavan) 2 Oct 2001
• New round on the backs of US-led war on terrorism? (C.Raghavan) 26 Sept 2001
• LDCs response to draft WTO Doha Declaration 2 Oct 2001
• Analysis of draft WTO Doha Declaration (B.L.Das) 1 Oct 2001
• TWN's comment on the WTO's Draft Doha Ministerial Declaration (M.Khor) 28 Sept 2001
• Consultations on Harbinson drafts from next week (C.Raghavan) 28 Sept 2001
• A new trade round, with 'development agenda' for US-EC corporations (C.Raghavan) 27 Sept 2001
• Declaration agenda on mandated negotiations, reviews ambiguous (C.Raghavan) 27 Sept 2001
• African ministers for continuing WTO study process on new issues (M.Khor) 24 Sept 2001
• G77 high level advisory group against new issues at WTO (C.Raghavan) 24 Sept 2001
• Imponderables cast shadows over next WTO ministerial (C.Raghavan) 14 Sept 2001
• WTO Doha preparatory process resumes (C.Raghavan) 4 Sept 2001
• Central America sets conditions for multilateral talks (M.Sequiera) 29 Aug 2001
• WTO head doesn't like 'open-ended' meetings (C.Raghavan) 30 Aug 2001
• African political leaders against new issues at WTO (M.Khor) 27 Aug 2001
• India will protect its own interests at Doha (R.Devraj) 27 Aug 2001
• UN body reaffirms human rights obligations over trade, finance (C.Raghavan) 27 Aug 2001
• TWN letter to Financial Times on WTO (M.Khor) 11 Aug 2001
• Lessons not learnt at the WTO (R.Reddy) 7 Aug 2001
• LDC Ministers not prepared to negotiate on new issues (M.Khor) 28 Jul 2001
• The 'reality check' that's neither real nor a check (C.Raghavan) 30 Jul 2001
• A progress report of large gaps and 'bridging' efforts (C.Raghavan) 26 Jul 2001
• South must define contents of 'development round' (C.Raghavan) 24 Jul 2001
• LDCs reject new round for Doha (Y.Tandon) 24 Jul 2001
• G7 calls for a new round, with 'balanced agenda' (C.Raghavan) 22 Jul 2001
• Majors stalling on implementation issues (C.Raghavan) 22 Jul 2001
• A Caribbean view of Moore's 'new round campaign' (C.J. Rohee)
• No convergence of views on Doha agenda or new round (C.Raghavan) 14 Jul 2001
• ECOSOC high-level segment won't endorse new trade round (C.Raghavan) 16 Jul 2001
• No consensus on new round or agenda for Doha (C.Raghavan) 1 August 2001
• Majors working to force their will on rest of WTO? (C.Raghavan) 31 July 2001
• Africa group, LDCs outline stands on Doha (C.Raghavan) 30 July 2001
• WTO at the crossroads (M.Khor)
• Why South should oppose new issues and new round in the WTO (B.L.Das)
  
• WTO members split on new round
  31 July 2001
• LMG caution against 'misperceptions' about new round (C.Raghavan) 6 July 2001
• Majority of UN high-level panel supports new trade round (C.Raghavan) 29 June 2001
• Capital-level officials repeat same positions (C.Raghavan) 25 June 2001
• Comprehensive round may lead to comprehensive failure, warning (C.Raghavan) 26 Jun 2001
• From a bicycle ride (before Seattle) to camel sprint for Doha (C.Raghavan) 26 Jun 2001
• High-level African meet against negotiating new issues at WTO (M.Khor) 2 Jul 2001
• Doha preparatory talks show deep divisions on investment issue (C.Raghavan) 1 Jun 2001
• G-15 for priority to 'implementation', against new issues (K.Raja) 29 May 2001
• Why civil society opposes a new round (R.M.Jennar) 22 May 2001
• WTO secretariat uses espected slowdown to push for a new round (C.Raghavan) 23 May 2001
• WTO chief claims Vajpayee supports new round (R. Reddy) 19 May 2001
• Informal talks on implementation, Singapore issues (C.Raghavan) 17 May 2001
• Is there advantage for LDCs in a new round? (C.Raghavan) 17 May 2001
• OECD ministers call for new round of trade talks at Doha (K.Raja) 17 May 2001
• WTO, global governance and new trade round (R.Ricupero)
• No new issues in WTO, say India and Malaysia (TWN)
• Don't expand trade system to new issues, advises Ricupero (TWN)
• Malaysian finance minister opposes 'new issues' (Lean Ka-Min)
• European civil society denounces EC's WTO stance (C.Raghavan)
• Members raise a range of subjects for assessment at Doha (C.Raghavan)
• Doha process starts, stumbles over Plan A, B (or C) (C.Raghavan)
• Separate track for implementation doesn't mean side-track (C.Raghavan)
• Implementation debate between peoples on different planets (C.Raghavan)
• Doha ministerial to be asked to address TRIPS and Health Care (C.Raghavan) 2 May 2001
• Egypt-South Africa initiative for new round, with investment (C.Raghavan) 5 Apr 2001
• EC, Japan claim momentum for new round (C.Raghavan) 27 Mac 2001
• NGOs demand WTO head to stop 'New Round campaign' (C.Raghavan) 19 Mac 2001
• South countries must strengthen common ground in negotiations (T.Hormeku) 14 Mac 2001
• Developing countries press for progress on implementation (C.Raghavan) 16 Mac 2001
• General Council to run Doha preparatory process (C.Raghavan) 8 Mac 2001
• Will Doha preparations repeat pre-Punta del Este process? (C.Raghavan) 8 Mac 2001
• Withstanding pressures for a new round, a major challenge for the South (M.Khor) 15 Mac 2001
• No new round before settling implementation issues, says Mahathir (C.Raghavan) 27 Feb 2001
• Moore trying to build momentum for new round (C.Raghavan) 15 Feb 2001
• General Council special session to continue focus on implementation (C.Raghavan) 9 Feb 2001
• Doha ministerial set for 9-13 November (C.Raghavan) 8 Feb 2001
• Implementation issues can't be brushed under the carpet warning (C.Raghavan) 1 Feb 2001
• Trojan horse to get investment, competition into new round (C.Raghavan) 31 Jan 2001
• WTO sets Doha as ministerial venue, stumbles on dates (C.Raghavan) 30 Jan 2001
• US NGOs press campaign against Qatar as next Ministerial venue (C.Raghavan) 29 Jan 2001
• EC 'trial balloon' on investment and competition in new round (C.Raghavan) 30 Jan 2001
• WTO-GC to formally designate Qatar as venue for Ministerial (C.Raghavan) 23 Jan 2001
• Qatar to host next WTO Ministerial Conference (C.Raghavan) 19 Jan 2001
• New Round? Maybe, but implementation up front, says India (C.Raghavan) 10 Jan 2001
• South may be ensnared into new Round, more obligations (C.Raghavan) 21 Dec 2000
• Decision on venue of next WTO ministerial put off (C.Raghavan) 15 Dec 2000
• Implementation package is a "glass without water" (C.Raghavan) 15 Dec 2000
• Skimpy 'package' keeps implementation issues alive, just (C.Raghavan) 14 Dec 2000
• Lamy claims progress towards meeting Third World concerns (B.Kenety) 4 Dec 2000
• A year after Seattle, no progress at the WTO (M.Khor) 3 Dec 2000
• Developing countries, the WTO and a New Round (R.Smith) Dec 2000
• A year after Seattle, the WTO Bourbons have learnt nothing (C.Raghavan) 30 Nov 2000
• World trade grew, despite WTO Seattle debacle (C.Raghavan) 30 Nov 2000
• General Council chair to have further consultations on implementation (C.Raghavan) 29 Nov 2000
• Mountain of labour produces a dead mouse (C.Raghavan) 29 Nov 2000
• TWN Report: The situation at the WTO a year since Seattle (M.Khor) Dec 2000
• Seattle repeated at Libreville (Y.Tandon)
• Lamy for "adjustment of positions and ambitions" for new round (C.Raghavan)
• Unravelling of 'confidence-building'? (C.Raghavan)
• E-com work programme to resume at WTO (C.Raghavan) (17 Jul 00)
• Dialogue without any engagement (C.Raghavan) (4 Jul 00)
• Circular talk from North on 'implementation' questions (C.Raghavan) (4 Jul 00)
• US disregards 'confidence-building measures (C.Raghavan) (19 Jun 00)
• WTO starts work on implementation issues (C.Raghavan) (23 Jun 00)
• Not enough flexibility for launch of new round, says WTO (C.Raghavan) (15 May 00)
• "Show back on the road, but in very modest way" (C.Raghavan) (8 May 00)
• Peru to head agriculture negotiations (C.Raghavan) (8 May 00)
• WTO Council to 'address' implementation issues (C.Raghavan) (3 May 00)
• From substantive to procedural on "confidence building" (C.Raghavan) (2 May 00)
• Lost in cyberspace (C.Raghavan) (27 Apr 00)
• Confidence building or marking time at WTO? (C.Raghavan) (27 Apr 00)
• Services negotiators agree on calendar of meetings (C.Raghavan) (18 Apr 00)
• Quad package, a 'confidence breaking' development (C.Raghavan) (11 Apr 00)
• Quad package fails to fly, at WTO (C.Raghavan) (10 Apr 00)
• Quad 'mini package' for WTO? (C.Raghavan) (5 Apr 00)
• Developing countries asked to resist new issues (C.Raghavan) (2 Apr 00)
• WTO dispute system tilting balance against the South (Martin Khor) (30 Mar 00)
• Agriculture negotiations from mid-2001? (C.Raghavan) (24 Mac 00)
• Rehearsal of tortuous process ahead in agriculture talks (C.Raghavan) (23 Mac 00)
• EC stance on chairmanship snags agricultural talks (C.Raghavan) (20 Mac 00)
• WTO system may not be sustainable without S & D (C.Raghavan) (8 Mac 00)
• Continuing conceptual divides at the WTO (C.Raghavan) (2 Mac 00)
• Third World still terra incognito on services data (C.Raghavan) (29 Feb 00)
• Services talks linked to agriculture, implementation (C.Raghavan) (27 Feb 00)
• From swans on Geneva lake to super-tankers on high seas! (C.Raghavan) (8 Feb 00)
• Agriculture and services negotiations in WTO bodies (C.Raghavan) (7 Feb 00)
• Low key WTO discussions of post-Seattle outlook (C.Raghavan) (3 Feb 00)
• Rethinking liberalisation and reforming the WTO: Martin Khor's Presentation at Davos
  (28 Jan 00)
• Moore and 'team' hold informal consultations (C.Raghavan) (1Feb 00)
• Seattle summary record has some material changes (C.Raghavan) (19 Jan 00)
• Moore to visit Brussels and Washington (C.Raghavan) (14 Jan 00)
• India proves WTO's best friend, after Seattle (R.D.Raj) (13 Jan 00)
• Full participation and efficiency in negotiations (B.L.Das) (10 Jan 00)
• Can system be back on rails? (C.Raghavan) (10 Jan 00)