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Senators probe Commerce nominee about Chinese market access, steel, IP rights

President Trump’s pick for under secretary of Commerce for international trade on Thursday endorsed a multipronged and aggressive approach to trade concerns like steel overcapacity, “reciprocal” market access in China and stronger intellectual property rights enforcement -- possibly through the use of a Section 301 investigation that could come as soon as this week. During trade attorney Gil Kaplan's Aug. 3 confirmation hearing, Senate Finance Committee members pushed the nominee on a range of issues involving the U.S. and China...

New Domestic Support Proposals At WTO Do Not Address U.S.-China Deadlock

Various members of the World Trade Organization have put forward a series of proposals aimed at cutting domestic support, but these proposals do not appear to address the overarching problems plaguing the negotiations, namely that the United States and China cannot agree on what cuts the other should make to its domestic support programs. The U.S. at a July 18 meeting of the negotiating group on agriculture asked whether the latest proposals were “putting the cart before the horse” because...

WTO Goods Council Selects Chairs For 12 Committees

mmittee: Mr Garth EHRHARDT (Canada)

Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Committee: Ms Marcela OTERO (Chile)

Technical Barriers to Trade Committee: Ms Esther PEH (Singapore)

Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) Committee: Ms Marine WILLEMETZ (Switzerland)

Anti-dumping Practices Committee: Mr Peira SHANNON (Australia)

Customs Valuation Committee: Dr Yasser KORANI (Egypt)

Rules of Origin Committee: Mr Chih-Tung CHANG (Chinese Taipei)

Import Licensing Committee: Mr Tap

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Chair Of WTO NAMA Negotiating Group Warns Some Members Fear 'WTO Going Drifting'

Oral Report By The Chairman Of The Negotiating Group On Market Access

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U.S., EU Call For Plurilateral Approach In WTO NAMA Talks; Others Skeptical

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U.S., EU Call For Plurilateral Approach In WTO NAMA Talks; Others Skeptical

The United States and European Union are pressing for a plurilateral approach to negotiations on industrial goods at the World Trade Organization that would entail seeking plurilateral deals to eliminate tariffs on specific sectors such as chemicals, according to informed sources. But the idea was rejected or met with skepticism by many WTO members that prefer the multilateral approach because of links to the agriculture negotiations and the assurance of having special and differential treatment, according to Geneva sources. The...

Doha’s Outlook: The ‘Ambition Level’ Seems ‘Clearly Reduced’

At the World Trade Organization, this week’s words describing the outlook for Doha Round progress are clearly tempered, the latest examples coming both from a high-level perspective and when drilled down to the specific issue of non-agricultural market access (NAMA). Two fresh examples: WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo telling an audience of economists in Indonesia that “all WTO members want to deliver” on outstanding issues but that’s as far as agreement goes; and the head of WTO’s market access negotiating group...

WTO Issues Report Outlining Status Of Members' Revised Market Access Schedules

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SITUATION OF SCHEDULES OF WTO MEMBERS

NOTE BY THE SECRETARIAT1

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NAMA Ambitions Continue To Diminish As WTO Members Remain Split On Post-Nairobi Path

Report By The Chairman Of The Negotiating Group On Market Access

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Froman Warns Of WTO Irrelevance If It Does Not Leave Doha Round Behind

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WTO Publishes Updates To The Harmonized System, Effective Jan. 1, 2017

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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE HARMONIZED

COMMODITY DESCRIPTION AND CODING SYSTEM

CHANGES IN THE HARMONIZED SYSTEM TO BE

INTRODUCED ON 1 JANUARY 2017

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U.S., EU, Japan Say Indian Duties On Telecom Equipment Appear To Violate ITA Commitments

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Committee on Market Access

Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products

QUESTIONS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION, JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES TO INDIA REGARDING INDIAN CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION NO 11/2014

COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION, JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES

The following communication, dated 1 April 2016, is being circulated at the request of the delegations of the European Union, Japan and the United States.

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