GenevaLunch » Doha Round http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no World Bank boss rounds on US, calling Doha Round a “disappointment” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/world-bank-boss-rounds-on-us-calling-doha-round-a-disappointment/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/world-bank-boss-rounds-on-us-calling-doha-round-a-disappointment/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:35:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59899 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, blamed US President Barack Obama for what he called the failure of the US to take a leadership role in seeing that the Doha Round of trade negotiations succeeds. Zoellick, in a prepared speech Monday 18 July, said “I won’t sugarcoat it.  Negotiators from key [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/18/world-bank-boss-rounds-on-us-calling-doha-round-a-disappointment/feed/ 0 Doha Round faces new old gloom as Boeing decision awaited http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/31/doha-round-faces-new-old-gloom-as-boeing-decision-awaited/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/31/doha-round-faces-new-old-gloom-as-boeing-decision-awaited/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:02:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55963 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A long-awaited decision about US subsidies for Boeing is expected at the WTO (World Trade Organization) in Geneva Thursday 31 March. Depending on who you ask, it will either go badly against the company and the US, which in June 2010 was accused at the WTO of providing up to $20 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/31/doha-round-faces-new-old-gloom-as-boeing-decision-awaited/feed/ 0 Swiss gov’t lays out 2011 agenda http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/30/swiss-govt-lays-out-2011-agenda/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/30/swiss-govt-lays-out-2011-agenda/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:21:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=50557 GenevaLunch.com Federal Council will consult on plan for how big banks can fail, negotiate withholding tax on foreigners’ accounts Measles, tougher penal sentences, electricity suppliers, corporate tax rates all on the 2011 schedule Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Government, fresh from the defeat of its counter-initiative in the vote on foreign convicts 28 November, has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/30/swiss-govt-lays-out-2011-agenda/feed/ 0 New US trade man calls on India, China, Brazil to take leading roles http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/10/new-us-trade-man-calls-on-india-china-brazil-to-take-leading-roles/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/10/new-us-trade-man-calls-on-india-china-brazil-to-take-leading-roles/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 12:10:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=41697 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - “We’re not negotiating with a gun to anyone’s head – that’s not the way the WTO works,” says Michael Punke, the new US ambassador to the World Trade Organization. “What we’re hoping is they will step up and take up their leadership role,” he says, referring to India, China and Brazil. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/27/geneva-prepares-for-world-trade-invasion/feed/ 2 New Delhi meeting breathes new life into Doha Round process http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/new-delhi-meeting-breathes-new-life-into-doha-round-process/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/15/new-delhi-meeting-breathes-new-life-into-doha-round-process/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:35:48 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=27777 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Doha Round talks resumed on the technical level  in earnest at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva 14 September after a commitment to conclude the Round by 2010 from ministers from 35 countries meeting in New Delhi, India 3 and 4 September. The Doha Round of trade talks collapsed [...]

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