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16-Jun-2010
Using key principles and provisions of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) as a yardstick for analysis, this paper examines whether and how eight major regional integration agreements in Sub-Saharan Africa address TBT. It finds that TBT have not been not an important issue in those agreements and investment in related institutional infrastructure has not been significant.
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14-Jun-2010
The OECD recently held a Workshop on Technical Barriers to Trade : Promoting Good Practice in Support of Open Markets. These proccedings bring together the presentation and background papers prepared for this workshop which attracted over 90 trade officials, regulators and other stakeholders from OECD and non-OECD countries to discuss developments in the TBT field and the associated policy challenges.
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03-Jun-2010
This note has been prepared in order to provide an explanation and summary of the changes that will take effect on 1 September 2011 to the premium-related rules of the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits.
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25-May-2010
International trade in intermediate goods and services gives domestic firms access to higher quality inputs and improves their competitivity. Protectionist measures that inhibit this trade are more likely to produce firm closures and job losses, OECD analysis finds.
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25-May-2010
With economic recovery under way, a new OECD report urges governments to continue to resist protectionism and advises on policies that support growth, employment and trade.
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25-May-2010
Governments should now embrace an ambitious trade liberalisation agenda and work to a successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda, says the OECD.
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16-Apr-2010
France's Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Bruno Le Maire, has called for the development of the aquaculture sector to be a priority in facing the challenge of food security. Mr Le Maire made his remarks as he opened a workshop on aquaculture policy at OECD headquarters in Paris.
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16-Mar-2010
Farmers will have to produce more food with less water, mainly because of growing pressures from urbanisation, industrialisation and climate change. Effective water resource management is essential. This report shows the trends and outlook for water use in agriculture and recommends what countries should be doing and why.
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12-Mar-2010
Addressing the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s annual conference, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría called for new efforts to unblock the Doha Development Agenda trade talks in order to liberalise trade, stimulate business activity and boost jobs. President Obama, addressing the same conference, announced a National Export Initiative and congratulated Mr. Gurría for his leadership of the OECD.
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