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Page Updated: Friday, July 27, 2007
TRADE AND INVESTMENT TOPICS
GBD posts here press releases, article and other GBD documents on trade and investment. With permission, we also post selected other items.
ITA PAPERS
January 18, 2007, Slides — “Benefits and Success of the Information Technology Agreement," from a presentation given by Joe Tasker of the the Information Technology Association of America to the WTO ITA Committee.
January 18, 2007, Remarks — “Benefits and Success of the Information Technology Agreement," from a presentation given by Joe Tasker of the the Information Technology Association of America to the WTO ITA Committee.
July 27, 2007 ITI Statement (GBD posting Date) — A statement on "European Commission Taxing Innovation in ICT Sector," issued by the Information Technology Industry Council.
Shanghai Speech by Nancy Zucker Boswell of Transparency International, given at the April 24-25, 2006, APEC Anti-Corruption and Transparency Workshop.
Poverty and the WTO: Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda, slides from the presentation given by L. Alan Winters, Director of the World Bank Development Research Group, at the GBD Colloquium on July 27, 2006.
National Security is Not at Issue in U.S.-Oman FTA, a paper issued on July 18, 2006, by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
57 Senators Advise on Doha Negotiations. Sent on June 23, 2006, this letter reminds the White House that the Senate and the U.S. agriculture community have already offered a great deal in the Doha Development Agenda and gotten relatively little.
Trade Facilitation in the WTO: Two Sides of the Coin, a presentation by Jeannie Cameron of British American Tobacco at the GBD Hong Kong Colloquium on Trade Facilitation on December 14, 2005
The WTO At Ten & The Road To Hong Kong, remarks by Congressman Jim Kolbe (R. Az) at the conference on the WTO sponsored by the ABA International Law Section and held at the Georgetown University Law Center, September 29, 2005.
The Dragon Goes Shopping – A Look at
New Players, New Rules: Changing Patterns in Global Trade Policy, remarks of GBD president R. K. Morris at the European Business School, Schloss Reichartshausen, Germany.
China: Policy Risks and Business Plans, remarks of GBD president R. K. Morris at the World Business Forum on June 15, 2004, in Tokyo. This event – an annual, all-day seminar – was organized by the Center for International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and held at the Nippon Keidanren conference center. This year’s overall topic was “The Challenge of China: Comparing Strategies for Success.”
Cancún: What Happened? What’s Next?, remarks by GBD President R. K. Morris to the October 14, 2003, meeting of the Japan Commerce Association of Washington.
GBD reports from Doha and the WTO Fourth Ministerial Conference. R. K. Morris represented the Global Business Dialogue at the November 2001 WTO Ministerial in Doha, Qatar. While there, he filed a series of daily reports to GBD Members, and these are collected here in a single document. The photographs referred to are not included.
The State Interest Groups and Governance. These remarks of GBD's president R. K. Morris were his contribution to a panel discussion on this topic at the Conférence de Montréal on April 19, 2001.
Antidumping, Byrd Amendment …Statement by Lewis Leibowtiz at the GBD colloquium on “The Byrd Amendment and the Search for Compliance,” November 4.2005.
GBD Questionnaire for the Hong Kong Ministerial. This is a questionnaire which ask GBD members if their company or organization will be represented in Hong Kong and if so by whom. It also asks Members to list their top three issues in the Doha Round. Though aimed at GBD Members, GBD would be pleased to receive this information from anyopne who cares to fill out the form and fax it back to us at +1-202-463.7075.
The Doha Round At The Mid Point – An Address By Tim Groser, on September 21, 2004, to the Global Business Dialogue in Washington, DC. Ambassador Tim Groser is New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and the Chair of the WTO Agriculture Negotiating Group. As such, Ambassador Groser was perhaps the central figure in the WTO’s successful effort to produce a Framework Agreement on Agriculture (and in other areas) at the end of July 2004. The effect of that agreement has been to reinvigorate the Doha Development Agenda, which had been floundering since the failure of the WTO Ministerial meeting in Cancún in September 2004.
Japanese Business and the Doha Round, remarks by Koichi Danno of Nippon Keidanren This presentation was given in Washington, DC, on June 8, 2004. The setting was a breakfast colloquium co-sponsored by GBD and the Keizai Koho Center. At that time, Mr. Danno and a delegation from Nippon Keidanren, the Japan Business Federation, were on their way back to Tokyo after a series of meetings at the WTO in Geneva.
Remarks by The Hon. Jim Sutton, Trade (and Agriculture) Minister of New Zealand, at a GBD Colloquium on July 24, 2003. This assessment importance, obstacles and outlook of a successful conclusion to the Doha Round was made just prior to the July 28-30 WTO Mini-Ministerial in Montreal.
The Strength of the Senate TPA Legislation - Remarks by Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, at the special Joint Series luncheon on June 12, 2002.
Notes: Focus On The 49th Parallel - From the GBD-NAM Colloquium of December 4, 2001, on the challenges of managing the U.S.-Canadian Border in the period following the September 11, 2001, attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and others. The speakers at this event were MICHAEL E. BAROODY, Executive Vice President of the National Association of Manufacturers; WILLIAM HEFFELFINGER, Assistant to the Commissioner and Northern Border Coordinator for the U.S. Customs Service; PERRIN BEATTY, President and Chief Executive Officers, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters; ALEXSANDER KOBYLECKI, Manager, Global Customs, Material Planning & Logistics, Ford Motor Company; and JEFFREY ASHFORD, House Committee on Appropriations, Treasury Subcommittee.(December 4, 2001)
Transcript: Desert Hope - Perspectives on the WTO and the upcoming WTO Ministerial offered by Ambassador Koji Watanabe of Japan's Keidanren; The Honourable Perrin Beatty, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters; Dr. Omkar Goswami, Confederation of Indian Industry; and The Honorable William Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council. This event was held at the National Press Club on June 19, 2001. Click here to download this document for printing or viewing.
Speech by Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) on trade and Trade Promotion Authority at the kickoff breakfast of the First GBD Conference On The WTO: Anticipating Qatar. This event was held at the St. Regis Hotel on June 18, 2001.
Tariffs: Time To Say Goodbye? This is a report of the proceedings from the GBD Colloquium on this subject, which was held at the National Press Club in Washington on March 21, 2001.
Transcript: The Byrd Amendment - Correction or Mistake? This is a report of the proceedings from the GBD Colloquium on this subject, which was held at the National Press Club in Washington on January 18, 2001.
Speech by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), "Building a New Trade Consensus," delivered at a special colloquium on January 11. This event was jointly hosted by The Global Business Dialogue and the New America Foundation.
Transcript: NGOs, Governments, And The WTO. This is a transcript of the GBD Colloquium on this subject, which was held at the National Press Club in Washington on November 6, 2000.Please see the Global Positions section of this website for additional articles.
Agriculture Subsidies, Cotton and Sugar – Thinking Outside The "Boxes," a paper by John Magnus of Dewey Ballantine, presented at the GBD Colloquium on Cotton, Sugar, and the WTO on July 15, 2004.
Force Majeure – Hurricane Katrina As Force Majeure, by Peter Ehrenhaft of Miller & Chevalier Chartered. This is Mr. Ehrenhaft’s outline for the presentation he gave at the GBD Colloquium on the Katrina Crisis on September 8, 2005.
Tariffs - Australia's Contribution to a WTO Seminar on Non-Agricultural Tariffs. The event was held in Geneva on March 20 and 21, 2001. Interested readers may also wish to consult Testing, Testing, Tariffs from Global Positions of June 30, 2000.