Posts tagged…Trade Framework
Symposium: Future of the Multilateral Trade System
Thu, Mar 27 2008Monday, 7 April 2008 at the Center for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne. The team of analytical 'heavy-hitters'—I'm sure they love being called that—who served on the Warwick Commission will conduct a full-day symposium on why WTO is in such a mess (or not). I'll be speaking, too, on 'critical mass' agreements and whether they'll lead an explosionin the WTO. Please come…Program over…
Read more…Can WTO control Kyoto climate tariffs?
Thu, Feb 21 2008My answer: ‘probably not’. The harder question is: can either the WTO or Kyoto regime reach a consensus on enforceable emission controls? I doubt that, too.
The European Commission debates on a climate tariff are a gesture, I suspect, to EC industries who are demanding continued unpriced allocation of base emission rights under Europe’s emissions trading scheme. But the import taxes are a real…
Trade agreements out of reach
Thu, Jan 24 2008The text of my Opinion piece in the Australian Financial Review earlier this month.
[Trade Minister] Simon Crean could be forgiven for feeling uneasy as he prepares to dive into the Trade portfolio. If you stand at the end of the plank and look down, you can just about see the bottom of the barrel and the well that filled it is running dry.
We're riding a shopping trolley into the global market…
Warwick Commission report on ‘The Way Forward’ for WTO
Fri, Dec 14 2007
[Updated post] The University of Warwick mandated the Commission to enquire into the ‘way forward’ for the multilateral trading system. They recommend, among other things, an expansion of 'plurilateral' agreements among a sub-set of the Members of WTO as a way of 'moving forward' and some principles for guiding their adoption. I agree; there is a good case to be made for these agreements that…
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
Tue, Jun 26 2007
The news that the WTO talks had collapsed again probably deserves the familiar gripes and even the bored yawns that greeted it. But behind this story is a worrying lesson about the potential for agreement on other global challenges, like climate change.
Ignoring the WTO jargon, the collapse of the talks is a story about how the world has changed in the past half century or so since the WTO rules…
Global Trade Advocate
Sat, Feb 10 2007download a copy of Global Trade Advocate (pdf:2.2mb)”
Global Trade Advocate is Inquit’s guide to advocacy on behalf of the global trading interests of your business or industry association. It shows you how to go about defining your interests in the trading system, how to analyze the opportunities, how to build support for your goals in the trading system and—most important—how to identify and…
