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E.
Uruguay Round Agreements:Analysis,Problems,Effects & Proposals
for Change
1.
General Issues
2. Balance
of Payment Measures
3. Subsidies
and Countervailing Measures
4. Anti-dumping
5. Agriculture
- Genuine
CAP reforms or a three-card game?
- Agri-negotiators
reserved on CAP reform, NGOs denounce it
- US
dumping agri-commodities, hurting farmers worldwide
- Agriculture
reforms without EC input on modalities?
- Critique
by BL Das on Chairman's text on agriculture modalities
- NGOs
call for rejection of Harbinson paper
- OECD
agriculture reform process is like New Year resolutions
(C.Raghavan)
- WTO
may not have useful role in agriculture, charge NGOs (C.Raghavan)
- Agriculture
reform process for disciplining policies of other nations
(C.Raghavan)
- Domestic
support issue splits 'liberalizer' camp too
- Some
suggestions for modalities in agriculture negotiations
This important new paper by the renowned trade expert Bhagirath
Lal Das provides suggestions for developing countries to propose
as modalities in the WTO negotiations on agriculture.
- No
enthusiasm for radical agricultural reforms (C.Raghavan)
- US
unveils its 'mercantilist' reform proposals on agriculture
(C.Raghavan)
- Export
issues modalities discussed at informal session on agriculture
(C.Raghavan) June 2002
- AoA
talks won't help farmers, economic development, says study
(C.Raghavan)
- Farm-export
countries close ranks on multilateral talks (R.Pierri)
5 Sep 2001
- Developing
countries clamour for free trade in agriculture (M.Valente)
31 Aug 2001
- Agricultural
protectionism hurts environment (M.Osava) 31 Aug 2001
- Agri-talks
mark time, for end of peace clause or new round? (C.Raghavan)
- EU
promotes restrictive view of TRIPS on access to medicines
(C.Raghavan) 29 May 2001
- Agriculture
talks focus on tariffs, TRQs, amber box subsidies (C.Raghavan)
27 May 2001
- Work
programme for second phase of agriculture talks (C.Raghavan)
23 Mac 2001
- Agriculture
Committee discusses reform proposals (C.Raghavan) 25 Mac
2001
- Proposal
for negotiating export credit disciplines (C.Raghavan)
23 Mac 2001
- WTO
agriculture liberalisation may harm small-scale farmers
(G.Mutume) 27 Feb 2001
- Agriculture
talks, New Round and continued talks (C.Raghavan) 7 Feb
2001
- EC
meets 'third force' in agricultural talks (C.Raghavan)
6 Feb 2001
- Agriculture
Committee discusses negotiating proposals (C.Raghavan)
5 Feb 2001
- EC
wants others to share its burden of agriculture reforms
(C.Raghavan) 22 Nov 2000
- Cereal
output down, import bills to rise (C.Raghavan) 14 Nov
2000
- Cairns
group proposals for market access (C.Raghavan) 14 Nov
2000
- Cairns
Group farmers launch European offensive (C.Capdevila)
16 Oct 2000
- UR
reforms imperil food security and sovereignty (S.Singh)
(10 Jul 00)
- Agriculture
talks must first set right UR inequities (B.L.Das)
- Negotiating
without comparable data? (C.Raghavan) (5 Jul
00)
- Agriculture
negotiations from mid-2001? (C.Raghavan) (24 Mac
00)
- Rehearsal
of tortuous process ahead in agriculture talks (C.Raghavan)
(23 Mac 00)
- EC
stance on chairmanship snags agricultural talks (C.Raghavan)
(20 Mac 00)
- Food
security as important as national security (C.Raghavan)
- Agriculture
major test of WTO credibility, says Ricupero (C.Raghavan)
- Flood
of imports could destroy Indian agriculture (Binu Thomas)
- Agriculture
- talks about talks (C.Raghavan) (25 Jun 99)
- Liberalization
needs to address socio-economic effects (C.Raghavan)
- Food
Security: An important non-trade concern - An informal paper
by India
- The
AOA: An imbalanced, inequitable agreement (B L Das)
- Proposed
specific changes needed in WTO Agriculture Agreement (B
L Das)
- Macroeconomic
policies that affect the South's agriculture (Martin Khor)
- Agriculture:
Shadow-boxing for 2000? (C. Raghavan)
- Agriculture:
India for a "market-plus" approach (C. Raghavan)
- The
"Big Bang" in agriculture in the WTO (B L Das)
- Unclear
text of WTO Agriculture Agreement (B L Das)
- EU
wants new round to fend off agriculture? (C. Raghavan)
- CAP
reforms will hit South's poor farmers (EUROSTEP)
6. Textiles
7. Services
- Back
to square one on GATS emergency safeguards (C.Raghavan)
- GATS
liberalization may conflict with human rights obligations
(C. Raghavan)
- WTO
must consider human rights implications of GATS (C. Raghavan)
- GATS
talks without mandatory assessment? (C. Raghavan)
- Little
progress in GATS bodies (C. Raghavan)
- South
has not benefitted from services exports, says new study
(C. Raghavan)
- European
NGOs call for EU transparency in services trade talks
- The
chimeral benefits of market liberalization (C. Patel)
July 2002
- US
'leadership' in more mercantilist demands on South (C.Raghavan)
July 2002
- No
new commitments before GATS problems redressed, says new book
(Lean Ka-Min)
- Open
letter on EU requests for services liberalization
- US,
EC, Canada resist negotiations on BOP provisions (C.Raghavan)
April 2002
- GATS
Council extends time for safeguards agreement (C.Raghavan)
Mar 2002
- GATS
may result in irreversible capital account liberalisation
(C.Raghavan)
- GATS
talks aimed at enabling export of Andersen-style accounting?
(C.Raghavan)
- GATS,
financial services and rating agencies (C.Raghavan)
- Enron,
Argentine shadows over WTO services talks? (C.Raghavan)
- Enron
teaches tough lessons for developing world (P.Bidwai)
- Halt
GATS talks until independent assessment, says NGO study
(C.Raghavan)
- UN
services data collection won't help GATS negotiators (C.Raghavan)
1 Sept 2001
- Extend
GATS campaign to privatization, bilateral accords (C.Raghavan)
11 Jul 2001
- Revised
GATS guidelines attempts to mollify developing world (C.Raghavan)
23 Mac 2001
- Shall
vs best endeavour battle over GATS talks guidelines (C.Raghavan)
21 Mac 2001
- 'GATS
- fact and fiction', at best a partial truth (C.Raghavan)
20 Mac 2001
- WTO
secretariat's revised draft guidelines for GATS talks
(C.Raghavan) 20 Mac 2001
- Developing
countries turn down guidelines for GATS talks (C.Raghavan)
25 Feb 2001
- Despite
GATS data gaps, negotiate commitments, says WTO (C.Raghavan)
18 Dec 2000
- Services
talks advancing to negotiations (C.Raghavan) 7 Dec 2000
- India
moots GATS guidelines on visas, work permits (C.Raghavan)
5 Dec 2000
- Latin-Asian
elements for GATS negotiating guidelines (C.Raghavan)
5 Dec 2000
- Anti-WTO
campaign to centre on services (G.Capdevila) 4 Dec 2000
- GATS
modalities aimed at leveraging greater coverage (C.Raghavan)
6 Oct 2000
- US:
For ambitious GATS talks, but not in air, maritime (C.Raghavan)
6 Oct 2000
- New
GATS talks threaten democracy, says new study (C.Raghavan)
5 Oct 2000
- Services
data collection won't reflect GATS definition (C.Raghavan)
(4 Sep 00)
- To
cluster or not to cluster (in GATS) (C.Raghavan)
(19 Jul 00)
- GATS
negotiations should first reduce current imbalance (B.L.Das)
(14 Jul 00)
- 'Road
map' for services talks (C. Raghavan)
- Clear
North-South divide on services negotiations (C. Raghavan)
- Restoring
balance to services (B L Das)
- Close
encounters at the WTO (C. Raghavan)
- Malaysia:
51% equity in insurance applies to all firms (Martin Khor)
- Will
US campaign-funders sink WTO deal again? (C. Raghavan)
- "Substantial
harvest" in financial talks, says WTO head (C. Raghavan)
- Not
so foolproof GATS safeguards and prudential rights (C.
Raghavan)
- WTO
head "facilitating" financial services deal (C. Raghavan)
- US-EC
move to open up Asian and Latin American markets (C. Raghavan)
- US
wants others to give up needs test in banking (C. Raghavan)
- US
to "pry open" financial services markets (C. Raghavan)
8. TRIPS
- Special
WTO Session on TRIPS and Drugs
(1) A TWN Report on what happened
at the Special Session TRIPS Council discussion on TRIPS,
Medicine Prices and Public Health (20 June)
(2) TWN's Briefing Paper on TRIPS,
Patents and Access to Medicines: Proposals for Clarification
and Reform
(3) Joint NGO Statement on Patents
and Medicines: The WTO Must Act Now (19 June)
(4) Joint Submission by 47 Developing
Countries to the TRIPS Council on TRIPS and Public Health
(19 June)
(5) Africa Group statement
(6) SUNS article: Patents vs public
health issue won't go away
(7) SUNS article: WTO asked
to ensure TRIPS doesn't undermine public health
(8) Update on TRIPS and Public Health
talks (25 July)
(9) Africa Group statement at informal
session on TRIPS and Public Health (25 July)
- WIPO
Beijing summit draft becoming controversial (C.Raghavan)
- Developing
countries criticize attempts to limit scope of diseases in
TRIPS para 6 talks
- US
holds up decision on implementing Doha health declaration
(C.Raghavan)
- TRIPS
consultations on implementing para 6 on public health recessed
(C.Raghavan)
- African
Group statement on TRIPS and public health
- South,
including LDCs, don't need restrictive TRIPS decisions
(C.Raghavan)
- Rigged
rules (Oxfam)
- NGOs
urge India to take lead, reject UPOV (K.Raja)
- Patents
no longer efficient for biomedical research (C.Raghavan)
- TRIPS
consultations on implementing Doha recessed (C.Raghavan)
- Why
the TRIPS and public health talks at WTO broke down (J.
Love)
- South,
including LDCs, don't need restrictive TRIPS decisions
(C.Raghavan)
- Implementing
Doha health declaration or playing a con game? (C.Raghavan)
- Differences
unresolved on implementing TRIPS and public health (C.Raghavan)
- Retrogression
on implementing Doha public health declaration? (C.Raghavan)
- Talks
continue on key issues to impelment Doha health declaration
(C.Raghavan)
- TRIPS
talks on implementing Doha run into more problems (C.Raghavan)
- US
pressures SSA capitals on TRIPS and Public Health (C.Raghavan)
- Warning
over patent-harmonization approach at WIPO
- No
progress on TRIPS and public health at WTO
- IPRs
costly for Third World, don't help reduce poverty (C.Raghavan)
- IPRs
may need 're-scrutiny', says UK minister (C.Oh)
- IPRs
costly for Third World, don't help reduce poverty (C.Raghavan)
- WIPO
moves towards 'world' patent system (GRAIN)
- US
pushes moratorium proposal on TRIPS and public health
(C.Raghavan) June 2002
- IPRs,
TRIPS hamper R&D, technology transfer to South (C.Raghavan)
- "The
problem with para 6" (C.Oh)
- Zimbabwe
overrides patent protection on HIV/AIDS drugs (K. Raja)
- 'One-size'
patent regime does not fit all (M.Khor) March 2002
- Expeditious,
permanent solution sought on public health and TRIPS (C.Raghavan)
Mar 2002
- Provide
exception to patent rights for exports of medicines and medical
technologies to address public health needs
- South's
no to restrictive, public health Doha declaration (C.Raghavan)
21 Sept 2001
- NGOs
accuse rich nations over TRIPS and public health (K.Raja)
20 Sept 2001
- US-led
hardcore resists easing TRIPS for public health (C.Raghavan)
18 Sept 2001
- NGOs
urge support for pro-public health interpretation of TRIPS
(K.Raja) 19 Sept 2001
- Developing
country proposals for Ministerial Declaration on TRIPS
(C.Raghavan) 19 Sept 2001
- Update
on TRIPS Council Special Discussion on Access to Medicines
(19 Sept) and TRIPS informal meeting (20 Sept)
- NGOs
call for fundamental 'rethinking' of TRIPS in WTO (C.Raghavan)
17 Sept 2001
- Ever
rising high drug prices not needed for R&D, says new report
(TWN)
- Rethinking
TRIPS in the WTO - NGO statement
- Rights
jurists for sui generis systems on pharmaceutical IPRs
(C.Raghavan) 8 Aug 2001
- Ensure
more definitive rendering of TRIPS exceptions, say jurists
(C.Raghavan) 8 Aug 2001
- US,
Swiss take hardline on TRIPS, public health and Doha (C.Raghavan)
- Proposals
for decisions on TRIPS and public health at Doha (C.Raghavan)
- UN
report sees green light for generic AIDS drugs (C.Raghavan)
- Update
on TRIPS and public health discussions (25 July 2001)
- Africa
group statement at informal session on TRIPS and public health
(25 July 2001)
- GC
chair to hold consultations on wide range of TRIPS issues
(C.Raghavan) 4 July 2001
- US
beats a (tactical) retreat over Brazil's patent law (C.Raghavan)
25 June 2001
- US
to withdraw TRIPS dispute against Brazil (C.Raghavan)
25 June 2001
- TRIPS-health
talks to continue, in structured, systematic way (C.Raghavan)
22 June 2001
- NGOs
demand 'pro-public health' intepretation of TRIPS (C.Raghavan)
19 June 2001
- Patents
and the high cost of medicines (M.Khor)
- WTO
debates patents and drugs issue (M.Khor)
- Patents
vs public health issue won't go away (C.Raghavan) 21 June
2001
- WTO
asked to ensure TRIPS doesn't undermine public health
(C.Raghavan) 20 June 2001
- WTO
Secretariat explains its TRIPS 'negotiating history' (M.
Khor & C.Raghavan) 11 June 2001
- EU
for 'differential' pricing over compulsory licensing (C.Raghavan)
31 May 2001
- Doha
ministerial to be asked to address TRIPS and Health Care
(C.Raghavan) 2 May 2001
- Pharmaceuticals
beat a tactical retreat (C.Raghavan) 20 Apr 2001
- WTO
to discuss TRIPS, health and affordable medicines (C.Raghavan)
5 Apr 2001
- Africa
wants special TRIPS council meet on patents and drugs
(C.Raghavan) 4 Apr 2001
- TRIPS
agreement and the WTO's crisis of legitimacy (M.Khor )
30 Mac 2001
- Squaring
the circle - public health vs TRIPS monopolies (C.Raghavan)
29 Mac 2001
- India:
Government rebuts drug-piracy charge (R.Devraj) 11 Mac
2001
- TRIPS
no obstacle to drugs for poor, claims Claire Short (C.Raghavan)
23 Oct 2000
- NGOs
call for changes in TRIPS agreement (Lean Ka-Min) 16 Oct
2000
- Andean
pact's new IPR regime shaped in US interests? (C.Raghavan)
8 Oct 2000
- Patented
genes like bonded labour? (C.Raghavan) 4 Oct 2000
- India,
Kenya papers and presentations on TRIPS (C.Raghavan) 3
Oct 2000
- TRIPS
review debate getting to fundamentals (C.Raghavan) 30
Sept 2000
- TRIPS
regime at odds with human rights law, says UN body (S.Singh)
(28 Aug 00)
- NGOs
tell Clinton their concerns over his stance on TRIPS (C.Raghavan)
(12 Jul 00)
- Drug
copying, no; South place names and biodiversity, yes (C.Raghavan)
(30 Jun 00)
- Call
for expanding geographical origin IPR protection (C.Raghavan)
(21 Mac 00)
- 10
questions on TRIPS, technology transfer and biodiversity
(TWN Briefing)
- Why
patents on lifeforms and living processes should be rejected
from TRIPS - Scientific briefing on TRIPS Art. 27.3b (UPDATED)(Dr
Mae-Wan Ho and Dr Terje Traavik)
- Patents
on life-forms should be re-examined, says India (S Singh)
- Changes
sought in TRIPS, some now, others by end 2000 (C.Raghavan)
- "Go
slow" on TRIPS 27.3 review, advises new study (S. Singh)
- Joint
NGO statement of support for the Africa Group proposals on
reviewing the WTO TRIPS agreement (Art. 27.3b)
- Africans
propose comprehensive changes in TRIPS (C.Raghavan) (12
Aug 99)
- South's
strategies for TRIPS reviews, negotiations (Part 2)(Carlos
Correa)
- Developing
countries and the TRIPS agreement (Part 1)(Carlos Correa)
- TRIPS
will push healthcare beyond poor (Muddassir Rizvi)
- UNDP
advocates comprehensive review of TRIPS (C.Raghavan)
- WIPO
to make industrial design registration easier (C.Raghavan)
- US
assailed for "piracy" of Cuban trademarks (C.Raghavan)
- Implementing
TRIPS in developing countries (Carlos Correa)
- The
Thammasat Declaration
- US
tries to block Thai moves on traditional knowledge (C.
Raghavan)
9. TRIMs
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Rethinking IPRs
and the TRIPS agreement
by M.Khor
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TRIPS, drugs
and public health: Issues and proposals
by TWN
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Developing Countries
and Services Trade
by C.Raghavan
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