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Briefing paper

Making Trade Work for Development in 2005: What the UK should do

01/04/2005

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18 pages long

Languages: English

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This year the UK government is in a unique position to ensure that international trade is driven by sustainable development, and not simply by the economic interests of rich countries. This paper sets out precisely what Oxfam is asking the UK to do during its presidency of the G8 and the EU, and in the […]

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Food Aid or Hidden Dumping? Separating wheat from chaff

24/03/2005

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37 pages long

Languages: English

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In a world prone to natural and human disasters, where 850 million people still suffer from hunger, food aid can sometimes be a crucial lifeline. However, food aid has also been used for less noble aims, including to dump surplus production and promote donor country exports. This type of food aid hurts poor farmers and […]

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Briefing note

Who Will be Left to Cheer the End of Illegal US Cotton Subsidies? Why African cotton farmers cannot afford US inaction on cotton subsidies

03/03/2005

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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Eighteen months ago at Cancun, rich countries promised African cotton farmers that the WTO would solve all the problems being caused by US subsidies. Despite the fine words from US Trade Secretary Robert Zoellick, nothing has changed for African farmers. The US has put ‘cotton’ on the WTO negotiating table – but only to buy […]

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Briefing paper

Finding the Moral Fiber: Why reform is urgently needed for a fair cotton trade

18/10/2004

2 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Cotton has been at the top of the WTO’s agenda for the past two years. However, little has changed so far for small-scale cotton producers in West Africa, who will not survive another major slump in cotton prices. In July 2004, WTO members committed to ambitious and expeditious cotton subsidy reforms. To give African producers […]

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Briefing paper

Extortion at the gate: Will Viet Nam join the WTO on pro-development terms?

01/10/2004

2 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English, Vietnamese

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As Viet Nam negotiates entry to the World Trade Organisation, the world’s most powerful countries are working hard to exact the onerous ‘WTO-plus’ commitments which have become characteristic of accession proceedings. Membership could help Viet Nam to benefit from international trade, supporting its efforts to reduce poverty, but the demands from rich countries for excessive […]

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Briefing note

Arrested Development? WTO July framework agreement leaves much to be done

06/09/2004

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7 pages long

Languages: English

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An agreement reached at the World Trade Organisation in July this year on how to move forward in the Doha Development Round of trade talks does not offer any cast iron guarantees that poor countries will get the reforms they so badly need. After months of informal negotiations failed to resolve basic disagreements, the talks […]

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Briefing note

An End to EU Sugar Dumping? Implications of the WTO panel ruling in the dispute against EU sugar policies brought by Brazil, Thailand, and Australia

06/08/2004

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4 pages long

Languages: English

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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has taken a further step towards outlawing one of the most pernicious trade practices, that is the subsidised export dumping of surplus agricultural production by rich countries. Agricultural subsidies are the most contentious issue in ongoing WTO negotiations. For many developing countries, the unfair use of subsidies to dump surplus […]

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Briefing paper

Dumping: The Beginning of the End? Implications of the ruling in the Brazil/US cotton dispute

05/08/2004

4 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese

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Despite their WTO commitments to reduce trade-distorting subsidies, the European Union and the United States have used loopholes and creative accounting to continue dumping products on world markets. In the case of US cotton subsidies, the dispute settlement body of the WTO concluded that such practices hurt developing countries and are in violation of WTO […]

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Journal article

Gender, the Doha development agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations

01/07/2004

9 pages long

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Gender, the Doha development agenda, and the post-Cancun trade negotiations

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The intensification of trade liberalisation has increasingly led women’s organisations and other civil society groups to pay close attention to the impact of trade liberalisation on economic and social development. At the last Ministerial meeting of the WTO in Cancun, gender and trade advocates developed empirical and policy-oriented positions on the WTO trade agenda. Though […]

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Briefing paper

One Minute to Midnight: Will WTO negotiations in July deliver a meaningful agreement?

01/07/2004

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Languages: English

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One week away from a crucial meeting of the General Council of the World Trade Organisation, time is running out for the Doha round. Almost a year after the ministerial conference in Cancun and three years after the Doha round, negotiations have gone in circles because of the continuing deadlock on key issues such as […]

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