Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) is a trade software provided by the World Bank for users to query several international trade databases.. WITS allows the user to query trade statistics (export, import, re-exports and re-imports) from the UN's repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables (UN COMTRADE), tariff and non-tariff measures data from ...
Different sources of trade data may provide more or less complete data coverage, and more or less detail: reported vs. mirrored: One key distinction in trade data is between the reporting country (the country that provides data) and the partner country (the country listed as an export partner or import partner in the data provided by a reporting country).
The economists Harry Dexter White (left) and John Maynard Keynes (right) at the Bretton Woods Conference in New Hampshire [27]. The WTO precursor, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), was established by a multilateral treaty of 23 countries in 1947 after the end of World War II, in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation—such ...
The round led to the creation of WTO, and extended the range of trade negotiations, leading to major reductions in tariffs (about 40%) and agricultural subsidies, an agreement to allow full access for textiles and clothing from developing countries, and an extension of intellectual property rights.
Metadata providing information on definitions and methods are often published along with the data. United Nations Commodity Trade Database; Trade Map, trade statistics for international business development; WTO Statistics Portal; Statistical Portal: OECD; European Union International Trade in Goods Data
This week, delegations from over 150 WTO Members will gather in Abu Dhabi for the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization alongside a host of private sector representatives ...
July 24, 2006 - At the end of yet another futile gathering of trade ministers in Geneva, Pascal Lamy formally suspends the negotiations. October 2006 - The US and Russia reach agreement in principle on a bilateral market access deal in the context of Russia's efforts to join the WTO. January 11, 2007 - Vietnam becomes the 150th WTO member state.
The inaugural ministerial conference was held in Singapore in 1996. Its primary purpose was to initiate an international effort among global trading nations to overhaul the structure and mechanisms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) while preserving the considerable progress and success achieved by that system since its inception in 1948.