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G'day Vietnam

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... become a fully fledged market economy. Governance has not been an issue since its accession into the World Trade Organisation where it drafted new investment laws requiring greater transparency," Nguyen said. "The Vietnamese government understands it ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
... 3.3 per cent achieved last year to 2.2 per cent this year has been followed by the announcement by the World Trade Organisation to say that it expects international trade to slow from the 8 per cent achieved last year to 6 per cent. Germany remains the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... cent. Piracy of US software, music and film is the topic of the complaint that the US will lodge with the World Trade Organisation over the next week following their decision last week to impose tariffs on some paper goods from China that studies showed ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
The Director General of the 140 member World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, has moved the deadline for several key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 ...

WTO Plea

... the 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 ...

China and Australia to fast-track FTA study

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2004
... also agreed Australia and China should cooperate more closely to secure a successful conclusion in the World Trade Organisation's Doha Round of negotiations on global trade.

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 ...

American wheat growers slam FTA

... a commitment from Australia to reverse its opposition to the reform of state trading entities in the World Trade Organisation. State trading enterprises usually include export monopolies such as that enjoyed by AWB as well as the Australian rice and ...

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
The European Union formally asked the World Trade Organisation today to set up a panel of experts to rule on its simmering trade dispute with Australia on quarantine measures restricting imports of food products. The first request for a disputes settlement ...