ICC steps up support to Doha trade deal...

March 28, 2008

28 March 2008

 

ICC steps up support to Doha trade deal in meeting with WTO head

 

This news release was issued by the International Chamber of Commerce on 27 March 2008.

 

 In a meeting yesterday with Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban lent the strong and unswerving support of world business behind a final push to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations by the end of the year.

                               

As negotiations intensify on striking an agreement on cuts in farm and non-farm tariffs, Mr Lamy told ICC he was hopeful that the terms of the agricultural and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) portions of the Doha Development Agenda could be agreed in a matter of weeks. In general, NAMA products include manufacturing products, fuels and mining products, fish and fish products, and forestry products.

 

If those terms were agreed by May, Mr Lamy was optimistic that a deal could also be struck in the rules and services areas of the round during the following months and that the round could be successfully concluded by the end of the year. …

 

In the meeting yesterday, Mr Sebban described a new ICC campaign to put pressure on key governments to strike a deal. …

 


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