WTO
Global trade grows, so do imbalances
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well below the peaks reached in mid-2008 before the global financial and economic crisis.
Struggling exporters to share Rs 1,052 crore in incentives
India vows to fight liberal import of used goods
Trading on environment
WTO environmental goods talks focus on climate
Political paralysis poisons WTO agriculture talks
Food safety policy and economics: a review of the literature
This paper provides an overview of developments in food safety policy in major industrial countries and of economic analysis of this policy. It describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots in the development of risk management policy in the United States.
