Trade monitoring
Commerce des services
En 2009, les travaux du Conseil du commerce des services ont été réactivés avec l'examen de plusieurs secteurs de services et modes de fourniture, sur la base de nouvelles notes d'information établies par le Secrétariat de l'OMC . Ces notes rendent compte des faits nouveaux les plus pertinents, du point de vue du commerce, qui sont intervenus dans des domaines clés au cours de la dernière décennie. Sept d'entre elles ont été examinées en 2009, et 13 autres serviront de base pour la poursuite des discussions en 2010.
Minutes of the TPRB meeting
The second Trade Policy Review of Brunei Darussalam was held on 25 and 27 February 2008. The Chairperson (H.E. Mr. Yonov Frederick Agah) welcomed the Brunei delegation, led by Mr. Dato Lim Jock Hoi (Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), and which included Her Royal Highness Princess Muta-Wakillah Bolkiah and H.E. Mr. Alaihuddin Taha, as well as the discussant H.E. Mrs. Marie-Claire Swärd Capra (Sweden). As usual, the discussant would speak in her personal capacity and not as a country representative. In accordance with established procedures, the discussant had provided in advance outlines of the main issues she intended to raise (document WT/TPR/D/171).
Composition, définitions et méthodologie
The data for this report comes from a variety of sources. How it is compiled and presented is explained in this chapter.
Trade policy reviews
During 2009 the Trade Policy Review Body (TPR B) reviewed 21 WTO members: Guatemala, Japan, Brazil, Fiji, the 27-member European Union, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Morocco, Guyana, Zambia, Chile, the Maldives, the members of the S outhern African Customs Union (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland), Niger and Senegal (joint review), and G eorgia. The Chair’s concluding remarks for these reviews are reproduced below.
Aid for Trade
In 2012, Aid for Trade continued to mobilize resources. Commitments rose in 2010 to USD 45 billion, according to the latest figures, up from some USD 40 billion in 2009. This is 82 per cent more than the 2002-05 baseline period. The Committee on Trade and Development worked on implementing the 2012-13 work programme, with its main theme of “deepening coherence”, and prepared for the Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade due in 2013, which will centre on global value chains. Four thematic workshops were held.
Preface
The Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) was first established on a trial basis by the GATT CONTRACTING PARTIES in April 1989. The Mechanism became a permanent feature of the World Trade Organization under the Marrakesh Agreement which established the WTO in January 1995.