Tag: World Trade Organization

• Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 04:15 UTC

  After 18 years of negotiations Russia is member of World Trade Organization

  

  President Vladimir Putin signed the bill ratifying Russia’s entry to the World Trade Organisation after 18 years of often acrimonious negotiations, the Kremlin press office said.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentina blasts WTO for its biased and tendentious reports on world trade

  

  The Argentine government, together with Brazil, India and South Africa questioned the inclination, almost bias, of some trade measures elaborated by the World Trade Organization Director General.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:07 UTC

  Argentina reports the US and Japan before the WTO for restrictions on beef and lemons

  

  Argentina announced it has formally reported the United States and Japan before the World Trade Organization for the constant barriers set to Argentina’s meat and lemon exports to the afore mentioned countries.

• Friday, July 6th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  US trade complaint at WTO against China for imposing duties on car exports

  

  United States launched a trade complaint Thursday against China at the World Trade Organization, accusing Beijing of unfairly imposing duties on more than 3 billion dollars in exports of US-manufactured automobiles.

• Monday, June 25th 2012 - 06:43 UTC

  Argentina waiting for Obama administration to help balance bilateral trade

  

  Ambassador in Washington Jorge Argüello said that the Argentine Government is concerned with the deficit increase in bilateral trade with the US and is waiting for Barack Obama administration actions to increase the purchase of Argentine goods.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2012 - 06:46 UTC

  Argentina with the largest number of protectionist measures worldwide

  

  Argentina has implemented the largest number of protectionist measures worldwide, according to a Latin Business Chronicle analysis of Global Trade Alert data from the UK-based Centre for Economic Policy Research.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 22:30 UTC

  Argentina accepts consultation with EU on trade restrictions and also drags Falklands’ to the dispute

  

  Argentina announced on Monday it had accepted the request from the European Union for a round of consultations, before the World Trade Organization, on the country’s controversial trade policies, but at the same time rejected all and every one of the questioned points and dragged the Falklands’ dispute into the fray.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 05:28 UTC

  Spain/UK join forces to defend their companies in Latam, says Garcia-Margallo

  

  Spain and the UK will join forces against attacks on their companies in Latin America, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo said, following a meeting on Tuesday in London with his counterpart William Hague.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 16:10 UTC

  EU files suit against Argentina with WTO, but it’s a long process

  

  The European Union filed a suit against Argentina's import restrictions with the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht announced on Friday.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  Argentina attacks WTO and US on trade issues at OECD ministerial round

  

  In an offensive to counter recent attacks on Argentina’s restrictive trade policies, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman expressed at the World Trade Organization, WTO, his government’s concern with the current course of global negotiations which face the serious risk of abandoning the development goals agreed when the launching of the current Doha Round of negotiations back in 2001.