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Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... to be "provocative or to promote self-defeating protectionism." Really? So why has China already filed a complaint with the WTO and promised its own investigation into American dumping of chickens and automotive products on Chinese shores? There is a ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... in the form of import quotas, trade restrictions and export subsidies. The establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Association of Southeast Asian Countries (ASEAN) and more recently, the ...

Market wrap

... at 15,391.48. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose one per cent, in line with regional gains and after the conclusion of the WTO meeting. The Hang Seng index ended 153.08 points higher at 15,182.89. WELLINGTON - The sharemarket continued its pre-Christmas ...

WTO Plea

... difficult decisions needed to reach a new world trade deal. In a petition sent to members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the 35 business groups called for fundamental reform of world agricultural trade, "including the elimination of all export ...

WTO warns time running out

At a Geneva meeting of the WTO's 146 member states, including Australia, director-general Supachai Panitchpakdi welcomed a new willingness between delegates to discuss thorny topics such as farming but warned that time was running out. Last month, countries ...

Australia slips down world export rankings

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2004
Australia has slipped down the rank of trading countries, new World Trade Organisation (WTO) figures show. The drought and the higher Australian dollar meant Australia's share of world trade dropped 0.1 percentage points to 0.9% during 2003. Australia ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

... financial markets. The upcoming summit will also seek ways in which to address the major issues of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) issues brought up in Cancun recently. The keynote speakers at the conference will include the presidents of Russia ...

EU asks WTO to intervene in Australian quarantine dispute

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
... restricting imports of food products. The first request for a disputes settlement panel was deferred for about a month under WTO rules after Australia opposed the EU's demand. EU trade ambassador Carlo Trojan told a meeting of the WTO's Dispute Settlement ...

ASX partners with Shenzhen Stock Exchange

... rapid rise of the People's Republic of China, and the development of its financial markets following China's entry into the WTO," Mr Newman said. The move follows a similar agreement signed a year ago with the Shanghai Stock Exchange, China's biggest ...

Commonwealth ministers meet in Brunei, focus on poverty

... meeting, which began in Brunei's capital Bandar Seri Begawan today, said that the failure of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Cancun cast a shadow on their Brunei gathering. Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth general secretary said that the ...