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A new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement would benefit all by increasing developing countries’ capacity to trade, strengthening the WTO’s development mandate, and boosting global economic growth. Indeed, such an agreement could be a down payment on WTO members’ commitment to linking trade and development. A new WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement would benefit all by increasing developing countries’ capacity to trade, strengthening the WTO’s development mandate, and boosting global economi...

The creation of new preferential trade agreements remains a key driver in trade liberalisation, at least bilaterally. This column examines the creation of new agreements, highlighting the effects of pre-agreement bilateral imbalance and within-country income inequality on the likelihood of a preferential trade agreement being formed. The authors suggest that while the creation

Europe set for a mixed open, Yellen talks about higher rates, global tax policy in focus

Toggle open close The world is still reeling from the novel coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan, China, more than one year ago. The most effective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been created and manufactured (in record time) by U.S. companies (Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson), and a clear majority of grateful Americans have now been inoculated with them. Meanwhile, much of the developing world is still in desperate need of vaccines, and Americans naturally want to help. The question is how....

Europe set for a mixed open, Yellen talks about higher rates, global tax policy in focus

 27 May 2021 - 10:33 The Peninsula Doha: Dr. Thani bin Abdulrahman Al Kuwari, Second Vice President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) and President of the Qatar Athletics Federation (QFA), yesterday said the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is ready to host the Doha round of the 2021 Diamond League.  The Second Round of the 2021 season will be held tomorrow at the track and field venue of the Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium. Dr Al Kuwari said that the Doha Round will witness participation of wor...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On May 5, 2021, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai signaled a potential new direction in U.S. trade policy, announcing that the United States would support waiving intellectual property (IP) protections for COVID-19 vaccines. In her statement, Ambassador Tai noted: “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures. The Administration believes str...

5 May 2021Washington, DC Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) has taken more than $110,000 worth of special interest-funded lavish trips, filings with the U.S. House Ethics Committee reveal. Documents show that between March 2001 and August 2019, Kind took at least 14 trips valued at $110,665—all funded by special interest groups. He has taken trips everywhere from Tel Aviv to Geneva to Rome to Munich to Fort Lauderdale to New Orleans to Houston to Seattle and more, funded by various different speci...

Having joined the WTO, many Western countries expected China to soon liberalise and become an open market economy. This second in a series of three columns describes how China has been able to shrug off pressures to change its economic structure and trading strategy, particularly regarding how its state-owned enterprises operate within the multilateral system.

The Federal The world can’t afford vaccine imperialism when millions wait for a jab The reluctance of countries like the US to share raw materials that are required for vaccine development in the developing world including India is shocking and ironical, especially when they are sitting on a surplus of vaccines COMMENTS Representative photo In normal times anything involving one billion people would have been an event with a lot of fanfare; but this is pandemic season wher...