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Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, while addressing the media persons in Geneva last evening, emphasised that there was no change in India’s negotiating position in Agriculture and NAMA. When asked for his views on the success of the Ministerial Conference, Shri Sharma informed that this was the first full Ministerial in the aftermath of the global…
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Governments must resist giving state aid to shipping lines as this will never benefit shippers or global trade, says Andrew Trail, Managing Partner of www.shippersvoice.com
Shipping lines made bad decisions before and should not be helped by the taxpayer to make them again.
“The economic crisis came faster and more deeply than most had thought possible, but it…
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A fast growing services trade between India and the US, which has remained relatively stable despite the global economic crisis, is expected to cross the US$ 150 billion figure by 2015 – even faster than the bilateral merchandise trade, according to recent study by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
The CII Study titled “India and the United States: Trade…
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The current worldwide recession is jeopardizing strides made toward reaching development targets, African leaders told the General Assembly today, calling for imbalances in the global trade system to be rectified to ensure that developing nations can grow their economies.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the current financial and economic crisis “threaten to erode decades of modest growth and thereby make the Millennium…
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Obama spoke with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul November 19, the last stop on the president’s nine-day trip to East Asia. He said both countries will continue to have “extraordinarily close coordination” on efforts to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for “the reduction of sanctions and its increasing integration into the…
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The Youth Action Grants program is a key component of the Starbucks™ Shared Planet™ commitment to communities. Grant recipients were chosen by Starbucks and the International Youth Foundation (IYF) in order to make funding available to young leaders who have completed IYF’s YouthActionNet° Global Fellowship. The Fellowship seeks to develop a new generation of socially-conscious global citizens who create positive…
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The event was sponsored by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Walmart, TransFair USA and the Brazilian non-profit SEBRAE, as part of the Responsible Sourcing Partnership project to benefit farmers throughout Brazil. The project aims to expand and improve the quality of Fair Trade Certified coffee supply though investments in infrastructure, technical assistance with production and postharvest processing, as well…
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The new standard extends strong labor protections based on International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions to garment workers in factories and sewing cooperatives. It builds on the success of Fair Trade at the farm level and follows extensive research and collaboration with garment workers, factory managers, non-governmental organization (NGO) advocates, companies and consumers.
Consumers have become increasingly aware of humanitarian issues…
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The Government will table at the Legislative Council next Wednesday (November 18) the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2009.
The purpose of the order is to reflect the latest revisions adopted in the strategic commodities control lists of relevant international non-proliferation regimes, i.e. the Wassenaar Arrangement and the Missile Technology Control Regime, a spokesman…
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Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, during the e-Asia Award ceremony, here today, stated that e-governance projects as a leading model generate excellent outcome and benefits in terms of awareness it creates. He further added that e-Industry and e-Business programmes significantly enhances internal and external e-Business alliance as well as e-Commerce efficiency. The awards function…
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A top United Nations official has called on countries in Asia and the Pacific to strengthen regional ties in an effort to boost trade and investment and increase economic growth, kicking off a week-long event in Bangkok focusing on these critical issues.
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) noted…
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