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World Trade Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international, multilateral organization which sets the rules for the global trading system and resolves disputes between its member states, all of whom are signatories to its about 30 agreements. It was negotiated during the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and entered into force with the establishment of the WTO at the beginning of 1995. Many believe that free trade is not the right way to make people's lives more prosperous but only grants the rich the means to become richer through the loss of the general population. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Trade_Organization   (4228 words)

[16 Feb 2000] TAD/1912 : DIRECTOR-GENERAL SAYS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION IS ‘BACK ON TRACK’ FOLLOWING RECENT FAILURE OF ITS SEATTLE CONFERENCE In that context, it was emphasized that article 12 of the organization’s charter sought to establish universality of the body and stated quite clearly that no State should be barred from the organization and its negotiations. In the interactive dialogue which followed, UNCTAD was told that for world trade to be governed effectively, it must have a global governing body, and so the WTO must become universal. Liberalization of trade is a powerful instrument for growth, but the pace and level of it must account for States’ priorities and levels of development. www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2000/20000216.tad1912.doc.html   (5113 words)

Mike Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He became the favoured candidate of one group of countries for the post of director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO). He quickly became involved in the trade union movement, and was elected to the Auckland Trades Council when only 17 years old. Moore was born in the town of Whakatane, a small town in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty region. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_Moore   (796 words)

Director-General of the World Trade Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Director-General of the World Trade Organization holds the highest permanent office of the World Trade Organization, and is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the organization. Because World Trade Organizations' decisions are made by member states (through either a Ministerial Conference or through the General Council), the Director-General has little power over matters of policy - the role is primarily a technical one. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Director-General_of_the_World_Trade_Organization   (155 words)

WTO Director-General: Pascal Lamy The World Trade Organization remains the most efficient and most legitimate forum to open and regulate world trade. I believe that trade opening and reducing trade barriers, has been, is and will remain, essential to promote growth and development, to improve standards of living and to tackle poverty reduction. This is what I call the “Geneva consensus”: a belief that trade opening works for development but only if we address the imbalances it creates between winners and losers, imbalances that are all the more dangerous the more fragile the economies, societies or countries. www.wto.org /english/thewto_e/dg_e/dg_e.htm   (278 words)

ECOSOC MEETS WITH BRETTON WOODS INSTITUTIONS, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION; AIMS AT ‘POLICY COHERENCE’ IN IMPLEMENTING MONTERREY COMMITMENTS Also addressing the meeting were Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany; Mary Whelan, Chair of the Trade Policy Review Body of the WTO; Eduardo Aninat, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF; Zhengman Zhang, Managing Director of the World Bank Group; and Francisco Thompson-Flores, Deputy Director-General of the WTO. MARY WHELAN, Chair of the Trade Policy Review Committee of the World Trade Organization (WTO), said the Doha round of trade negotiations had differed from others in its efforts to ensure that the concerns of developing countries were embedded in the negotiating process and were a central feature of its outcome. ZHENGMAN ZHANG, Managing Director of the World Bank, said that the Bank and the IMF agreed that only by allowing countries to shape their own strategies would coherence be achieved in development policy.  At the institutional level, good progress had been made in enhancing cooperation between and among institutions, as well as stakeholders. www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2003/ecosoc6041.doc.htm   (1764 words)

WTO's Decision-Making Process Democratic: Director-General Lamy Meanwhile, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy says despite all the criticism, the WTO's decision-making process is difficult. www.un.org /radio/story.asp?NewsID=3552   (87 words)

Europe: Renato Ruggiero; Director-General of the World Trade Organization.(Interview)@ HighBeam Research Renato Ruggiero became director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on May 1, 1995. Europe: Renato Ruggiero; Director-General of the World Trade Organization.(Interview)@ HighBeam Research The World Trade Organization (WTO) began functioning on January 1, 1995. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:17426166&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (206 words)

International Government Organizations: Guide to Sources WHOLIS, the World Health Organization Library Information System, is a database of citations to WHO publications, articles, technical and policy documents, and joint publications with other publishers and international organizations. The overview emphasizes balance of payments, exchange rates, world trade, and developments in the international monetary system. Contains all documents submitted to the Assembly by the Committee of Ministers, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, international organizations, members and committees of the Assembly. www.lib.msu.edu /publ_ser/docs/igos/igoorg.htm   (3750 words)

A Time of Trial by Taunt for the World Trade Chief Mike Moore, left, the director general of the World Trade Organization, talking in Seattle on Tuesday with Mayor Paul Schell after protestors blocked streets, preventing delegates from reaching the conference area. Moore, 50, is at the center of the trade meeting that is to bring together President Clinton and top trade officials from the member countries of the Geneva-based organization. It was Moore's qualities as a communicator that persuaded important trading nations, including the United States, to support him for director general. partners.nytimes.com /library/world/global/120199wto-talks-moore.html   (837 words)

ABC News: Mediator: Lamy Most Likely to Get Backing GENEVA Apr 15, 2005 — Former European Union trade chief Pascal Lamy is the candidate most likely to attract consensus as the new director-general of the World Trade Organization, a key mediator said Friday. Cuttaree is the foreign affairs and trade minister of Mauritius and Perez del Castillo is Uruguay's former ambassador to the WTO, who was chairman of the trade body's ruling general council. Mohamed is the head of a three-member panel of ambassadors, who are holding two months of closed-door consultations with their counterparts from other countries to help select the next head of the 148-nation body that sets the rules of global commerce. abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=673738   (370 words)

WTO NEWS - Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank group, made the following statement on the occasion Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Horst Köhler, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank group, made the following statement on the occasion of the WTO General Council meeting on coherence, in Geneva on 13 May 2003. The WTO, the IMF and the World Bank are cooperating to support the full engagement of developing countries in global trade negotiations to produce an outcome that favours the expansion of their trade. Trade is vital not only for the direct benefits it brings, but also for increasing the flows of financial and real investment resources to developing countries which generate the income growth and job opportunities that help raise people out of poverty and make economies more resilient to shocks. www.wto.org /english/news_e/pres03_e/pr341_e.htm   (641 words)

WTO boss to head international "think tank" The Executive Director of the Institute is Mr Andrew Stoler, who until recently served as Deputy Director-General at the World Trade Organization (WTO). A former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization has been appointed to the University of Adelaide to head a major new "think tank", which aims to boost South Australia's reputation for business expertise. His most recent appointment was as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, from November 1999 until October 2002. www.adelaide.edu.au /news/news444.html   (829 words)

noticias - WTO director to become new head of UN trade body In related news, The Financial Times meanwhile reports that trade ministers meeting in Kenya later this week need to take action to rescue World Trade Organization talks on services from crisis, the top WTO official handling the negotiations has warned. Speaking after three unproductive weeks of talks on opening services markets to foreign competition, Hamid Mamdouh, director of WTO's trade in services division, said services were "the crisis item" on the agenda of the three-day "mini-ministerial" meeting, which starts tomorrow. "His willingness to move to UNCTAD is eloquent testimony to the important role of that body in ensuring that the interest of development are taken into account in discussions on world trade," Annan said. www.noticias.info /Archivo/2005/200503/20050301/20050301_50183.shtm   (476 words)

Oxfam press release: Oxfam urges action on trade as Lamy takes up post as WTO Chief - 31 August 2005 On the eve of his first day as the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), international agency Oxfam challenged Pascal Lamy to put developing countries’ interests back at the heart of global trade negotiations. Without cooperation from the EU and US, even the most influential Director General in the world would not be able to deliver a result that helped reduce poverty,” said Charveriat. Oxfam said that if the round of talks was to be judged a success, the Former EU Trade Commissioner would have to make sure it delivered reforms that helped for poor farmers. www.oxfam.org.uk /press/releases/wto_lamy310805.htm   (563 words)

Statement by Mike Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organization Cutting by a third barriers to trade in agriculture, manufacturing and services would boost the world economy by $613 billion, according to one study from Michigan University, That is equivalent to adding an economy the size of Canada to the world economy. The World Bank in its report on Global Economic Prospects estimates that abolishing all trade barriers could boost global income by $2,800 billion and lift 320 million people out of poverty by 2015. Trade can serve as a key engine of growth but currently products of developing countries face many obstacles in entering the markets of rich countries. assembly.coe.int /Sessions/200201/Speeches/moore.htm   (2059 words)

European Looks Set to Lead WTO Business Deutsche Welle 13.05.2005 Four candidates are facing off to be the World Trade Organization's (WTO) new director general. Former EU trade chief Pascal Lamy of France looked set to become the new leader of the World Trade Organization after a selection team decided Friday to recommend him for the post. Perez del Castillo, 60, was Uruguay's WTO ambassador from 1998 to 2004 and chaired most of the trade body's key committees. www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1582823,00.html   (677 words)

Issues No.160 For over half a century the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and then the World Trade Organization (WTO) have played a key part in reducing barriers to trade, strengthening international laws, and encouraging economic development in a world that has become increasingly integrated. The US is the world's leading trader in goods and services, accounting for about 14 percent of world exports and about 16 percent of imports. The World Trade Organization (WTO) held its Third Ministerial Conference in Seattle in late 1999. www.globaled.org /issues/160/index.html   (511 words)

World Trade Organization The establishment of the World Trade Organization by the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade marks a watershed in international trade regulation. Founded as a result of the Havana Charter of 1948, the ITO was to be an organization that would ensure fairness in world trade, resolve disputes between members, and institute coverage for the emerging markets in services and intellectual property rights, as well as direct investment. The World Trade Organization (hereinafter referred to as "the WTO") is hereby established. www2.netdoor.com /~aminyard   (5697 words)

Moore More than half of the world population is involved in agriculture, and as for the service sectors, they are critical to the developing countries that have to diversify their trade. Of course, I don’t believe that by just liberalizing the world trade fully, we will solve all our problems, but trade plays a key role as far as development is concerned. We have a budget that is one third of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). www.asian-affairs.com /Crisis/moore.html   (5147 words)

NZOOM - ONE News - Business World Trade Organization (WTO) states missed a deadline on Monday for relaunching stalled "Doha Round" free trade talks, but officials said most were confident they would do better in the new year. WTO Director General Supachai Panitchpakdi told the news conference, called after a day-long meeting of delegation heads that was originally programmed to try to put the talks back on track, he had seen "flexibility from all sides." Delegations from many of the 146 member states also maintained the current target date - the end of 2004 - to wrap up the round, although privately most trade diplomats say it is already far out of reach. onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,243312-1-453,00.html   (588 words)

Frenchman Set to Assume WTO Leadership Pascal Lamy, who until recently was the European Union's chief trade negotiator, was set to become director-general of the World Trade Organization after his last remaining rival withdrew from the race yesterday. Pascal Lamy of France is expected to be next head of the World Trade Organization. As head of the Geneva-based body, which sets the rules for trade among its members and mediates their disputes, he would also act as one of the chief advocates for economic globalization, a daunting task in itself. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301529.html   (861 words)

BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Timeline: World Trade Organization It yielded tariff concessions worth $4.9bn of world trade and involved negotiations related to the creation of the European Economic Community. 1994 - Trade ministers meet for the final time under GATT auspices at Marrakesh, Morocco to establish the World Trade Organization (WTO) and complete the Uruguay Round. The round extended the range of trade negotiations, leading to major reductions in agricultural subsidies, an agreement to allow full access for textiles and clothing from developing countries, and an extension of intellectual property rights. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2430089.stm   (786 words)

IATP Trade Observatory World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy called last month for “recalibrating expectations” about what can be accomplished at the upcoming WTO ministerial in Hong Kong. A watered-down agreement announced late last night by the World Trade Organization at the Hong Kong ministerial reflects the struggles of a deeply flawed Doha Round that is far off-track, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Family farm, religious, conservation and other fair trade organizations sent a letter to key members of Congress calling on them to resist a Bush Administration proposal to shift U.S. countercyclical farm payments into the World Trade Organization's Blue Box. www.tradeobservatory.org   (583 words)

BBC NEWS World Europe Country profiles Profile: World Trade Organization The General Council is in charge of the day-to-day running of the WTO and is made up of ambassadors from member states who also serve on various subsidiary and specialist committees. WTO members are empowered by the organisation to enforce its decisions by imposing trade sanctions against countries that have breached the rules. WTO lacks democratic accountability, in that its hearings on trade disputes are closed to the public and the media. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/2429503.stm   (714 words)

STATEMENT OF THE ASEAN ECONOMIC MINISTERS ON THE SELECTION OF THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION 6 March 1999 The ASEAN Economic Ministers expressed their concern over the postponement of the selection of the new Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the end of March 1999. The Ministers agreed that the selection process must be completed in time and that it was in the interest of the WTO and its membership that a timely decision be made on a new Director General. At this crucial juncture when WTO members face the challenge of the next millennium and have to conduct intensive preparations for the next Ministerial Conference, there is an urgent need for new and effective leadership to lead the WTO. www.neda.gov.ph /PCAAC/FINANCE/statementaseanecon1999.htm   (194 words)

Defra, UK - Farming - World Trade Organization - negotiations on agriculture 8.1 On 1 September 2005 the former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy succeeded Supachai Panitchpakdi as Director-General of the WTO. It marked the halfway point in the current world trade round, the 'Doha Development Agenda', launched at Doha, Qatar, by the 4th meeting of the Ministerial Conference in November 2001. The peace clause is generally considered to have reduced the number of likely disputes in the agriculture area. www.defra.gov.uk /farm/international/wto/wtopaper.htm   (3368 words)

Press Release: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Congratulates Pascal Lamy on His Nomination As Director-General of the World Trade Organization Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), today congratulated former EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy for his formal nomination to the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Press Release: IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato Congratulates Pascal Lamy on His Nomination As Director-General of the World Trade Organization As a former EU Trade Commissioner, he has intimate knowledge of the area of international trade negotiations. www.imf.org /external/np/sec/pr/2005/pr05112.htm   (341 words)

Philippe Legrain An unholy alliance of greens, development lobbyists and old-fashioned protectionists is blasting the World Trade Organisation, often for contradictory reasons. The IMF and the World Bank are lending institutions; they cannot be run by their borrowers. Most trade is regional, not global, and next month's WTO meeting in Doha is unlikely to change that. www.philippelegrain.com   (957 words)

WTO: Int'l Trade May Rise 7.5 Pct. in '04 (phillyBurbs.com) General GENEVA - International trade in goods rose by 4.5 percent in 2003 and could grow by 7.5 percent this year as the world slowly recovers from economic turmoil, the Iraq war and the SARS outbreak, the World Trade Organization said Monday. Supachai said the best way to ensure sustained trade growth would be for the WTO's 146 members to work together to conclude the current round of trade liberalization negotiations aimed at reducing import duties and other barriers to free international trade. The WTO noted a number of risks that could affect trade growth, including the $542-billion current account deficit in the United States, which is considered unsustainable in the medium term. www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/24-04052004-277365.html   (665 words)

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