Signed and sealed?: time to raise the debate on international trade talks

Signed and sealed?: time to raise the debate on international trade talks

Published Jan 2006

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Briefing the media on trade and development

This briefing pack has been developed by Panos to inform media professionals about trade and development, presenting key issues in clear, jargon-free language, and providing essential background needed to understand them. The pack is intended to encourage the media to include more coverage of trade and development issues in their reporting, and to thereby ensure greater awareness and a better informed public. The pack includes a glossay of requently used trade terms, and a guide to useful websites.

Issues covered in the pack are:

  • agriculture (Doha)
  • Non Agricultural Market Access (NAMA)
  • General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS)
  • aiding trade and development
  • trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS)
  • deals outside the WTO: beyond the rules, and
  • politics of WTO decision-making.

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