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Appellate Body issues report on cotton dispute The Appellate Body, on 3 March 2005, issued its report on the complaint of Brazil against “United States — Subsidies on Upland Cotton” (WT/DS267/AB/R). Download: |
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Supachai welcomes chance to lead UNCTAD, pledges continued support for DDA Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, on 1 March 2005, said he was deeply honoured to have been proposed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. He stressed that until the expiry of his term of office as Director-General on 31 August 2005, he will remain fully committed to the WTO. Further reforms would help sustain already
impressive economic growth. The WTO, on 21 February 2005, issued the report of a panel that had examined a complaint by Korea against United States — Countervailing Duty Investigation on Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors (DRAMS) from Korea (DS296). > Download the panel report:
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documentation on the case DS296
The Dispute Settlement Body on 17 February 2005
set up two panels to examine, respectively, the United States' and
Canada's continued sanctions against the European Communities' import
ban on hormone-treated beef. At the same meeting, the DSB set up at the
EC's request a panel to examine the US' compliance in the Foreign Sales
Corporation case.
The 26th meeting of the Working Party on the
accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO, held on 16-17 February 2005, made good progress on substantial issues although the chairman,
Ambassador Stefán Jóhannesson of Iceland, said that there was “still a
lot of work has to be done”. The General Council, on 15 February 2005, noted
the consensus on the slate of names of chairpersons for WTO bodies and
elected Amb. Amina Chawahir Mohamed of Kenya as its new Chairman. General Council accepts separate applications from Serbia and Montenegro At the February 15th 2005 meeting, the General Council accepted the separate applications for membership of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro and agreed to the establishment of Working Parties to start the negotiations. As from that date the application of “Serbia and Montenegro” was withdrawn and this entity ceased to be an applicant and an observer.
Reconstruction efforts to be based on sound
policy making. The United Kingdom donates 1.9 million Swiss Francs for the Standards and Trade Development Facility On 4 February 2005, the United Kingdom
Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the WTO over a
contribution of £850,000 (approximately CHF 1.9 million) to the
Standards and Trade Development Facility, a programme which assists
developing countries in improving their expertise and capacity to
analyse and implement international sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS)
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