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USA: TRADE SECRETARY BARSHEFSKY ON CHINA/PNTR
English/Nat
A senior U-S official on Tuesday urged Congress to grant China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status so as to clear the way for Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organization (W-T-O).
U-S Trade Representative...
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Delegates try to reach free trade agreement; Indian and US officials comment
Top trade officials meeting at a World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Bali, Indonesia, were working on Wednesday to reach an eleventh hour deal that could boost the global economy by 1 (t) trillion US dollars.
After more than a...
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WRAP Forum on Middle East, Iraq, Kerry slams US foreign policy, Blair, Lamy, McCain
AP Television
1. Exterior of World Economic Forum (WEF) Congress Centre
2. Interior lobby
3. Wide of forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East, panel, video screen
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Vice...
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SINGAPORE: WTO: AGRREMENT ENDORSED FOR GLOBAL TRADE LIBERALISATION
English/Nat
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) formally endorsed an agreement Friday that lays the groundwork for global trade liberalisation over the coming years.
At a closing ceremony in Singapore, delegations from 128 nations...
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SWITZERLAND: WTO: EU/USA BANANAS/SANCTIONS - UPDATE
English/Nat
The United States and the European Union have made their cases before the World Trade Organisation over hefty U-S sanctions imposed amid the bitter transatlantic banana trade row.
The E-U denounces the U-S sanctions, but...
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USA: SEATTLE: W-T-O UNDER CRITICISM
English/Nat
The head of America's biggest consumer advocacy group predicted Thursday that the World Trade Organisation will be all but dead in the water within five years.
However, developing nations are using the W-T-O as leverage...
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Vietnam declines to comment on NKorean bank accounts
1. Wide shot of Melia hotel where the APEC meeting is taking place
2. Arrivals of finance ministers
3. Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung enters the conference hall and waves to audience
4. Wide of APEC podium
5. Various media...
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US treasury secretary John Snow at trade talks
October 10
1. Various of John Snow, US Treasury Secretary exiting car and meeting with Sadakazu Tanigaki, Japanese Finance Minister
October 11
2. Snow enters news conference
3. Cutaway media
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Snow, US Treasury...
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China given formal membership of WTO at Qatar meeting.
1. Exteriors Qatar and Sheraton Doha Hotel
2. Interior views of delegates seated
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Youssef Kamal, Qatari Minister of Finance: "The ministerial conference so agrees (to accept China)."
4. Various of the...
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CHINA: BID FOR WTO ACCEPTANCE LATEST
English/Nat
China's fourteen year bid for acceptance into the World Trade Organisation may move a step closer to fruition this week.
The European Union - which will play a key role in determining China's future with the WTO - is about...
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US Treasury Secretary, Chinese Vice Premier at photo op, presser
Beijing, China - 5 Dec 2008
1. Mid of US Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, and Chinese Vice Premier, Wang Qishan, walking in for group photo at the Strategic Economic Dialogue gathering
2. Close-up of Paulson and Wang
3. Pan of...
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THAILAND: DEPUTY PM PANITCHPAKDI WTO CANDIDATE LATEST
English/Nat
Despite a deepening deadlock, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi says he will not quit the race to lead the World Trade Organization and allow his New Zealand rival to assume the post.
Supachai Panitchpakdi...
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CHINA: BEIJING: WTO HEAD MIKE MOORE VISIT
English/Nat
The head of the World Trade Organisation has voiced optimism that Chinese and European Union trade negotiators will strike a deal next week, which would pave the way for the world's largest country to join the free trade...
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Indian trade minister comments at World Trade Organisation conference
1. Delegates in the lobby of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference
2. Close up of sign for 8th Ministerial Conference of the WTO
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anand Sharma, Indian Trade Minister:
"We did not come with much...
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China - Bid to enter World Trade Organisation
China is back on track in its negotiations with the United States on accession to the World Trade Organisation.
US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky pinpointed three serious trade issues China still must address in order to make...
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EU Trade commissioner speech on global trade
1. EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson walking to podium
2. Cutaway of audience listening
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner:
"In my experience any side typically moves only when they feel they have to and...
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Vietnamese president vows to further open communist country's economy
1. Asia Society of New York building
2. Various of protesters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ly Dong, protester:
"We come here against the communist leader (inaudible)."
4. Various protesters
5. Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet walking...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Afghanistan and Liberia to join WTO meeting in Kenya
Afghanistan and Liberia are set to join over 160 countries at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi Kenya from 15 to 18 December 2015
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : US won't rule out renegotiating WTO deal: Mnuchin
After a two-day meeting with ministers from G20 developed and emerging nations US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the US says the US will aggressively enforce parts of the WTO to favour American workers
Bloomberg
WTO's Azevedo on Trump, Trade and Brexit Deals
Nov.08 -- World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevedo talks with Bloomberg's Haslinda Amin about U.K. trade deals post-Brexit and U.S. trade concerns. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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Lagarde: Brexit needs 'specific approach'
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says there is a lot of uncertainty when it comes to Brexit and WTO rules do nothing to assure citizens living abroad, whether in the UK or the EU.
Brexit ''requires a very specific...
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Chinese vice commerce minister says US tariffs hamper global economic growth
China's Vice Minister of Commerce has labelled the United States a "trade bully" and says the tariffs it has imposed are hampering global economic growth.
Wang Shouwen said on Thursday that despite progressive talks between...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : WTO chief urges US to avoid paralysing trade system
The World Trade Organization chief in an interview with AFP urged the United States to avert paralysis in the global trade dispute settlement system as economic tensions between Washington and China ratchet up
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EU trade negotiator in Washington for talks
The European Union's top trade negotiator, Cecilia Malmstrom, is meeting United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington in an effort to breathe life into an attempt to strike a trade deal.