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December 25, 2010 SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ALL!

December 24, 2010 China and U.S. The U.S. said China failed to implement “important commitments” under its obligations to the World Trade Organization, and said it may file a complaint over that nation’s restraints on exports of rare earths. China is using “excessive, trade-distorting government intervention” to the disadvantage of American companies, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said today in its annual report on China’s compliance with WTO rules. Trade tensions have increased as China reported a record $153.3 billion of exports for November and U.S. lawmakers called for legislation on Chinese imports to combat any advantages from what they say is an undervalued yuan. The U.S. filed a WTO complaint against China yesterday, contending that favoritism toward domestic-made wind turbines is an unfair trade barrier. Among issues highlighted today were China’s export constraints on minerals such as magnesium, silicon, zinc and rare earths. December 23, 2010 China wind power. The U.S. has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization over support China provides its wind-energy manufacturers, acting on a petition brought by the United Steelworkers union. China’s Special Fund for Wind Power Manufacturing requires recipients of aid to use Chinese-made parts and amounts to a subsidy, both of whic h violate WTO rules, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said today. “These subsidies effectively operate as a barrier to U.S. exports to China,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in an e-mailed statement. The case “underscores our commitment to ensuring a level playing field with China for American workers and businesses.” The case escalates commercial strains between the U.S. and China, its second-largest trading partner, a month before President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit Washington. The case filed yesterday was one slice of a complaint filed with the U.S. trade office on Sept. 9 by the Steelworkers union. The union said export credits, preferences in bidding, forced transfers of technology and discrimination against firms outside the country give Chinese producers of renewable-energy products an unfair advantage. The union also said China’s restrictions on rare-earth exports provides an unfair advantage to its green-energy manufacturers, which rely on those elements. December 22, 2010 EU and China. China and the European Union agreed to work towards sustainable and balanced growth, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said at a China-EU summit held yesterday. Officials from China and the EU also agreed to exercise prudence in adopting trade remedies and to push for comprehensive and balanced outcomes for the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of negotiations at an early date, Wang said. It’s important to oppose all forms of protectionism, he stated at the summit in Beijing. China and the EU also agreed to speed up a feasibility study on a bilateral investment treaty and reiterated the importance of stepping up coordination and cooperation in the G20, Wang said. An agreement on customs cooperation was also signed at the meeting, he said.

December 21, 2010 WTO report. The Department of Trade Negotiations and World Trade Organization at the Ministry of Foreign Trade (MoFT) of the United Arab Emirates examined a recent report by the World Trade Organization on the latest anti-dumping investigations and measures, as part of the Ministry's efforts to follow up reports by the international organization.

According to the report which was released early December, the number of anti-dumping investigations initiated in the first half of 2010 dropped by 29 per cent , compared with the corresponding period in 2009, the World Trade Organization (WTO). The drop resulted in a decrease in the number of new measures applied during the first half of 2010 as compared with the first half of 2009.

A total of 69 new investigations were initiated by 19 countries in the first half of the year (January to June), compared with 97 investigations reported by 18 WTO member countries in the corresponding period of 2009. 14 WTO member countries reported applying 59 new anti-dumping measures during the first semester of 2010, with a decrease of 5 per cent from the 62 new measures reported by 16 Member countries for the corresponding period of 2009. 15 new investigations were opened by WTO's developed member countries and 10 out of 59 new final measures were applied by developed member countries during the first half of 2010. This compares with 15 new investigations begun and 15 new measures applied by developed Member countries during the first half of 2009.

The WTO's new report noted that WTO member countries reporting the highest number of new initiations during January - June 2010 were India, reporting 17 new initiations, followed by the European Union, reporting 8 new initiations, Argentina (7), Brazil (5). Other Member countries reporting most initiations were Australia and China (4 each), Indonesia and Korea (3 each), Colombia, Thailand and the United States (2 each), and Canada, Chile, Jamaica, Mexico, Chinese Taipei, Turkey and Ukraine (1 each).

The figures presented by the WTO's report show increases for India, the European Union, Brazil and Israel, and declines for Argentina, China, Indonesia, Colombia, the United States, Canada, Turkey and Ukraine. The number of initiations by Australia and Mexico remained unchanged compared with the numbers reported for January - June 2009. Chile, Jamaica, Korea, Chinese Taipei and Thailand, which did not report new initiations for January - June 2009, reported new initiations for the first semester of 2010, while Costa Rica, Pakistan, Peru and South Africa, which reported new initiations for the first half of 2009, did not report new initiations for the first half of 2010.

December 20, 2010 Brazil. After the U.S. Senate voted December 15 in favor of the Obama Administration’s tax bill, Brazil’s sugar industry said it will now press the new incoming government in the South American country to challenge U.S. government supports for ethanol. The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Assn. (UNICA) said in a press statement issued December 15 in Sao Paulo the tax bill approved by the US Senate in an 81-19 vote “maintains ethanol subsidies and a US$0.54 per gallon tariff on imported ethanol.”

"Despite calls from across the country – including nearly 100 newspaper editorials, over 80,000 letters from clean energy advocates, and opposition from a bipartisan group of senators and one of the broadest coalitions imaginable – the U.S. Senate voted today to extend the subsidies and trade protection for U.S. ethanol producers for one more year,” UNICA President Marcos Jank said. “While we were disappointed with today's outcome, and the expected rubber stamp by the U.S. House of Representatives, we know that the days of ethanol subsidies and trade protection are near the end, either because they will expire at the end of 2011 or as a result of litigation at the World Trade Organization (WTO).”

The industry group said it has been trying to work with U.S. industry and lawmakers for three years to try to reform American ethanol programs to “reduce trade distortions,” and “avoid trade conflict.” “After being rebuffed twice – first in the Bush Administration's 2008 Farm Bill and now apparently during the Obama lame duck negotiations – it is clear that the United States is not committed to open and fair trade in clean energy, particularly ethanol,” UNICA said. Now it is time for the new government due to take power in Brazil at the start of the new year to launch a dispute against the U.S. ethanol program at the World Trade Organization, Jank’s group said.

December 17, 2010 Costa Rica and Dominican Republic. Costa Rica’s government has asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to establish an arbitration panel to solve the dispute with the Dominican Republic over tariffs levied on the Central American nation’s industrial products. Costa Rica’s Foreign Trade Ministry said in a statement it requests arbitration "against the safeguard measures imposed by Dominican Republic on the imports of polypropylene sacks and tubular weaves from Costa Rica." The safeguards consist of a 38% import duty to last 18 months, starting last October 18, which allegedly violates WTO rules and the Central America, Dominican Republic, U.S. free trade deal (DR-Cafta). Costa Rica states that the 60 day period issued to the countries to solve the deadlock expired without results. “The objective of the panel will be to examine the measure at issue and define if the safeguard imposed violates WTO rules." Costa Rica said it expects other Central American countries will join the litigation in the next few days, because they are also affected. Data from Costa Rican reveal that it has exported 6.5 million dollars worth of tubular weaves and polypropylene sacks to Dominican Republic under the trade deal in the last three years. In 2009 Costa Rica’s exports to Dominican Republic topped 191 million dollars, and imported 30 million dollars worth from the Caribbean nation.

December 16, 2010 WTO. World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy said Tuesday that the "final countdown" had begun on talks for a free trade pact, noting that there was new energy to conclude the Doha Round in 2011. "Although we still have important challenges ahead of us, I sense a new energy and a determination among all participants to ensure that we grasp the narrow, but real opportunity to conclude the Round next year," said Lamy, the WTO's director general. "I genuinely sense that the final countdown has begun. It is up to everyone to make sure that it ends in a successful lift off." Launched 10 years ago in the Qatari capital, the Doha Round of negotiations between the WTO's 153 member nations or trade blocs have repeatedly foundered on trenchant disagreements and missed deadlines. The last major push for a deal was launched in July 2008, but the initiative collapsed as developing and industrialized nations failed to agree on lowering tariffs on industrial goods and cutting subsidies on agricultural products.

December 15, 2010 China. Judging by the din at its factory here one recent day, the Spanish company Gamesa might seem to be a thriving player in the Chinese wind energy industry it helped create. But Gamesa has learned the hard way, as other foreign manufacturers have, that competing for China's lucrative business means playing by strict house rules that are often stacked in Beijing's favor. Nearly all the components that Gamesa assembles into million-dollar turbines here, for example, are made by local suppliers — companies Gamesa trained to meet onerous local content requirements. And these same suppliers undermine Gamesa by selling parts to its Chinese competitors — wind turbine makers that barely existed in 2005, when Gamesa controlled more than a third of the Chinese market. But in the five years since, the upstarts have grabbed more than 85 percent of the wind turbine market, aided by low-interest loans and cheap land from the government, as well as preferential contracts from the state-owned power companies that are the main buyers of the equipment. Gamesa's market share now is only 3 percent. With their government-bestowed blessings, Chinese companies have flourished and now control almost half of the $45 billion global market for wind turbines. The biggest of those players are now taking aim at foreign markets, particularly the United States, where General Electric has long been the leader.


December 14, 2010 Yemen and U.S. Yesterday, Yemen and the US signed in Geneva, Switzerland, the bilateral agreement to finalize the requirements of Yemen to joint the World Trade Organization (WTO). The agreement was initially signed in Washington last May after six-year negotiation between Yemen and the USA. It is the ninth one after singing equivalent agreements with China, European Union's States, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Honduras and Salvador. The agreement was signed by the Yemen permanent representative to United Nations (UN) European Headquarters in Geneva Ibrahim al-Adofi and US Deputy Chief of Mission to WTO David Shark. After signing the agreement, Shark renewed his country's support to Yemen's accession to the WTO.

December 13, 2010 Serbia and South Korea. Serbian and South Korean officials have signed a protocol on liberalization of the goods and services market between the two countries. The document was signed by Serbian Economy Minister Mladan Dinkic and Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea to Serbia Kim Jonghae in Belgrade. The protocol is part Serbia's process of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Dinkic said that South Korea is the fourth country that Serbia signed the protocol with, adding that in the following months the country will sign agreements with other WTO members as well. “The goal is to complete all talks and sign protocols with all relevant WTO members during 2011,” Dinkic pointed out, but could not precise when Serbia will become a full WTO member. Serbia launched the process of the WTO accession in 2005.

December 10, 2010 EU and Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s trip to Europe this week has improved his country’s relations with the Continent and brought Russia closer to joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). Medvedev visited Brussels for an EU-Russia summit on December 7, where he signed a bilateral trade agreement between Russia and the European Union, agreed last month. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso called the agreement “a milestone.” Russia has been negotiating to join the WTO for 17 years, and is the only large nation not a part of the 153-member group. At a press conference Barroso said that “We expect Russia to join the WTO next year.” Russia came to a similar agreement with the United States in September, meaning that few obstacles bar it from WTO membership. The agreement commits Russia to phase out lumber and other raw material tariffs. There are still some other areas in which the EU wants Russia to change—such as its practice of banning European meat on a seemingly arbitrary basis, citing health laws as an excuse.

December 9, 2010 Russia. The European Union and Russia have reached an agreement on trade issues that paves the way for Moscow's entry into the World Trade Organization as early as next year. The deal opening the way for Russia's membership to the World Trade Organizations was reached during wide-ranging talks between European Union officials and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Brussels. They underscore warming ties between the two sides after divisions over the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict. The European Union permanent President Herman Van Rompuy announced the breakthrough at a press conference. "We agreed that we should now focus on the multi-lateral negotiations so that Russia can become a member of the WTO as soon as possible. This is a paramount step forward. And a step the world is closely watching." Moscow is the European Union's third-biggest trading partner and the only major one that is not a member of the World Trade Organization. As a result, it must settle differences through bilateral negotiations with separate states. Russia received U.S. backing for its WTO membership in October, after 17 years of negotiations, and hopes to join the trading block in 2011.

December 8, 2010 Armenia. Yesterday the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Commission on Government Procurements approved Armenia’s joining the Commission, the press office of Armenian Economy Ministry reports. Varos Simonian, head of an economy ministry department in charge of international economic cooperation, and Karen Brutian, head of a department in the ministry of finance overseeing government procurements, are in Geneva, Switzerland, for the session. WTO Secretary General Pascal Lamy welcomed Armenia’s joining the agreement saying the Armenian authorities’ government procurement policy is in tune with WTO’s general principles. When joining WTO in 2003 Armenia committed to join its Commission on Government Procurements. The process was launched in 2009. A special task force was set up in Armenia to handle the process. It has submitted to WTO Secretariat a plan of primary proposals. Armenian delegations attended the Commission’s gathering in 2009 December as well in February, July and October 2010. It has also concluded a set of successful negotiations with WTO member countries USA, Switzerland, EU, Japan, Norway and Singapore.

December 7, 2010 WTO. The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a report on Monday, saying that the Anti-Dumping (AD) investigations worldwide decreased by 29 percent in the first half of 2010, compared with the corresponding period of 2009. According to the report, 69 new AD investigations were registered from 19 WTO Members, compared with 97 new investigations reported by 18 members for the same period of 2009. New measures applied also saw reduction in the same period. The world trade regime said, a total of 14 Members reported applying 59 new anti-dumping measures on the first half of 2010, compared with the 62 new measures reported by 16 Members for the same period of 2009, representing a 5 percent drop. The report shows India leading the initiators of AD investigation, with 17 new cases introduced in the period, followed by European Union with 8 cases. On the target-side of AD investigations, China was still the most influenced victim of the new investigations, the WTO said, with 23 new AD initiations directed at its exports, despite a 30 percent fall from the 33 new investigations launched towards the country during the first half of 2009. In the second and third place are the EU and the U.S., with 11 cases and 5 cases respectively. Statistics show that China was the world's second largest exporter in 2009, with a total export volume of 1,200 billion U.S. dollars. And the EU was on top of the chart exporting at 1,525 billion dollars in 2009.

December 6, 2010 Russia. Russia is going to lower its round wood export duties significantly as soon as the country has joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) says Igor Shuvalov, Russia's first Deputy Prime Minister. A joint statement issued by the EU and Russia claims that agreement had been reached on all previously unsolved questions, including the round wood duties. According to information from European timber industry associations, the current duties on certain round wood grades are to be lowered by 50-75%.

December 6, 2010 China. China has appealed against a ruling by a World Trade Organization panel upholding the right of the United States to impose extra duties on Chinese goods that Washington said were unfairly priced and subsidized. The appeal, launched on Dec. 1 in the complex case involving treatment of goods from a country that is not a market economy and where the state influences prices, demonstrates China's increasing assertiveness in the global trading system. China had challenged the way the United States calculated the duties and the fact that it suffered a double penalty of anti-dumping duties for unfairly priced goods and countervailing duties for subsidized products. But the original ruling published on Oct. 22 had backed the right of an importer to set duties on goods from non-market economies to compensate for unfair pricing and for subsidies - something a U.S. court had previously struck down. The two-year-old dispute involved duties imposed by the United States on imports of Chinese steel pipes, off-road tires and woven sacks.

December 6, 2010 Russia and EU. Russia and the European Union hope to bury a series of rows which had clouded Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) at a summit on Tuesday, diplomats in Brussels say. Russia first applied to join the WTO 17 years ago, but a series of bilateral spats - not exclusively with the EU - and its decision to launch a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan at the beginning of this year has forced the pace of progress to a crawl. But Russia and the EU are to sign a 'memorandum of understanding' (MoU) which sets the terms for the closure of all purely EU-Russia bilateral disputes on the margins of the summit in Brussels, diplomats said. The two sides have long clashed over Russia's pricing policies for wood exports and railway tariffs. EU states, especially Finland and the Baltics, say that the policies unfairly overcharge EU firms to give Russian rivals a boost. The two sides have now agreed that Russia will progressively phase out all discriminatory tariffs, officials in Brussels said. They have also agreed upon the time period in which this will be done, but the details are a secret, officials said. The signature of the agreement would end the EU's direct objections to Russian accession. However, EU officials said that the bloc still wants to see Russia revise its industrial subsidies policy and its application of health rules for food imports.

December 3, 2010 World Trade. The value of trade in goods in the third quarter this year rose by 18 per cent compared to the same period in 2009, the World Trade Organization reported Wednesday. This was a decline from the 26-per-cent increase registered year- on-year in the second quarter of 2010. The figures are based on statistics from dozens of countries that together make up about 90 per cent of world trade. From January to September this year, trade expanded by 23 per cent, but was still below its peak, prior to the world economic crisis, according to the Geneva-based commerce body. Global merchandise exports were about 3 percent higher from July through September than in the previous three-month period. WTO short-term merchandise trade values are expressed in 'current' US dollars, not taking into account inflation. They are not seasonally adjusted. The WTO raised its outlook in September, predicting 13.5 per cent merchandise trade volume growth for 2010 and did not revise the figure in its latest update.

December 2, 2010 Canada and South Korea. The Canadian beef industry is cautiously optimistic that Canada and South Korea will resolve a seven-year-old beef trade dispute outside of the World Trade Organization, a top official has stated. South Korea is the only country maintaining its ban on Canadian beef since an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in 2003. Canada, the third-largest beef exporter, has complained to the WTO that the ban is unfair, however a ruling is not expected before summer and the ultimate conclusion may be years away. Canadian and South Korean officials have continued talking outside the WTO process.

December 1, 2010 Doha. Political leaders want negotiators to deliver them a global trade deal next year and the clock has started ticking on intensified talks, the head of the World Trade Organization said yesterday. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said the G20 and APEC summits this month had signaled they wanted the nine-year-old Doha round concluded and 2011 was a window of opportunity. "We have the political signal, we have the technical expertise and we have the work program," Lamy told a WTO meeting called to review the state of the Doha talks. "The final countdown starts now." The talks, launched nine years ago this month to open up world trade and help developing countries prosper through increased commerce, have been stalled for two years. But a series of brainstorming contacts among WTO ambassadors in recent months has suggested ways of breaking the deadlock. At a meeting of the WTO's Trade Negotiations Committee, Lamy laid out a program of intensified work for the coming months, starting in December, endorsed by almost all 153 members.

November 30, 2010 Russia and EU. Russia and the European Union will sign a document next week on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), following the results of bilateral negotiations on the issue, EU delegation to Russia head Fernando Valenzuela stated yesterday. The document is expected to be signed at a Russia-EU summit, which will be held on December 7. Valenzuela said Russia and the EU had achieved a considerable breakthrough at their negotiations on Russia's entry into the world trade club, resolving all their bilateral issues. The issues that remained were multilateral and needed to be discussed in a multilateral format, he said. Valenzuela said the Russia-EU summit would seal this breakthrough and complete bilateral negotiations. The summit will also give a new impetus to the negotiations on a new agreement between Russia and the European Union, including partnership for modernization between Russia and the EU.

November 30, 2010 New Zealand, Australia and WTO. New Zealand should now be able to resume apple exports for the first time since 1921 to its biggest trading partner after the World Trade Organization top court ruled on Monday that Australia's 89-year-old ban on imports of Kiwi apples are unscientific and break international trade rules. Australia has been restricting the entry of New Zealand apples since 1921 after the bacterial disease fireblight was found in orchards there. But New Zealand argued that the restrictions, revised in 2006, were unscientific. "The appeal report upholds the thorough analysis undertaken by the WTO dispute panel around risk assessment and the science at issue," New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser said in a statement. "These findings settle any debate. This is good news for New Zealand apple exporters," he said. The victory for New Zealand should also clear the way for sales to other markets where its fruit is also restricted.

November 29, 2010 Doha. Ambassadors at the World Trade Organization, heeding a call from leaders at the G20 and APEC summits, have agreed to push for an outline deal in the long-stalled Doha trade round by next summer. They face the challenge of translating their upbeat rhetoric into negotiating reality if the new target is not simply to join a long list of missed deadlines in the Doha talks. Leaders of the G20 rich and emerging economies in Seoul this month called for a conclusion of the Doha round to bolster economic recovery and resist protectionism, saying 2011 offered a narrow window of opportunity for a deal. Leaders of the Asia-Pacific group APEC issued a similar call a few days later. That followed several months in which ambassadors at the WTO got together in small groups to brainstorm on the issues holding up a deal in Doha, launched in November 2001 to open up global commerce and help poor countries prosper through trade.

November 29, 2010 Yemen and Salvador. Friday Yemen signed a bilateral agreement with Salvador for its accession into the World Trade Organization. The agreement was signed by permanent representatives of both countries to the UN in Geneva after talks between their delegations on the margins of the eighth official meeting of the special working team on the accession. After the signing, Yemen's representative Ibrahim al Adoufi said the agreement came within strengthening the bilateral links between Yemen and Salvador in all areas.

November 26, 2010 U.S. farm subsidies. There are few places in the world where farming is a truly free market activity - least of all the United States. A new report finds that $62 of every $100 that U.S. farmers earn comes from one level of government or another. In 2009, that added up to a staggering $180.8-billion (U.S.). The report identified a number of indirect subsidies to U.S. farmers via programs for irrigation, export credits, nutrition food aid and loan guarantees. Nearly $20-billion of the $180.8-billion flows to U.S. dairy farmers, or fully half of their revenues, according to Mr. Clark, a Canadian trade consultant. He concludes that global and regional trade talks are doomed to failure as long as “rampant, misclassified and unreported domestic” subsidies persist. To be fair, Canadian farmers also enjoy massive subsidies - from government, and in the case of dairy farmers - from consumers. Domestic producers of milk, cheese, eggs and chickens are protected behind a high tariff wall that inflates the price of imports, indirectly pushing up the price of products produced in Canada. Canada has been shut out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks, apparently because it refuses to put these “supply managed” sectors on the table. The United States, Australia and New Zealand have long pushed for Canada to dismantle its tariff regime.

November 25, 2010 U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving.

November 24, 2010 Serbia. Serbia will join the World Trade Organization (WTO) next year, Vice-President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce Mihailo Vesovic has stated. During a public debate on the draft strategy for the development of intellectual property, he said that Serbia is also expected to become a candidate for European Union membership in 2011, which will accelerate some processes. CEFTA is the framework in which greater attention should focus on intellectual property, as the economy benefits from that sector, he said. The Serbian government expects the strategy to be adopted in December.

November 24, 2010 Russia and EU. Russian and EU officials Wednesday, will discuss Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), a source close to the talks said. A Russian delegation headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov will meet with President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and other top EU officials in Brussels. Russia, the only major economy outside the global trade body, has been negotiating WTO membership for 17 years, although the average accession period is only five to seven years. Russia's Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina earlier said the talks would focus on the issue of export duties on lumber, which remains a stumbling block in Russia's WTO negotiations. Russia expects to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2011.

November 23, 2010 The Bahamas. More than 400 issues need to be addressed by The Bahamas as a part of the accession process to the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the country is to progress its application. Raymond Winder, Managing Partner of Deloitte and Touche and The Bahamas’ chief negotiator for the accession process to the WTO, said that some of those issues highlight the legislative changes or national commitments these may portend if membership is to be achieved.

November 22, 2010 WTO and Doha. World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy has recently invited its 153 member delegations to a meeting on November 30. It is to be mentioned here that the motive of the meeting is to look for build on calls this month by the G20 and APEC summits to finish the Doha round of global trade talks. Lamy is looking at revitalizing the halted talks among the global commerce front which initiated close to nine years back. There have already been many meeting within the small groups of key ambassadors in the recent months which were looking at brainstorming on how to move the talks forward has led to a greatly improved atmosphere amo