Trade monitoring
Agreement on Government Procurement
In 2010 the Committee on Government Procurement concluded negotiations with Armenia and invited it to join the Agreement. Substantial progress was also made regarding China’s accession to the Agreement. At the end of the year, China committed itself to provide a further improved coverage offer to join the Agreement, including coverage of sub-central (i.e. provincial) government entities, in 2011. In addition to these and other accession negotiations, the Committee’s four formal meetings and numerous informal sessions during the year dealt with negotiations to improve the text and coverage of the Agreement, on which progress was also achieved.
L’utilisation des mesures non tarifaires d’un point de vue économique
Les raisons qui amènent les gouvernements à appliquer des mesures non tarifaires (MNT) et des mesures relatives aux services sont de plus en plus nombreuses. La présente section examine quelles sont ces raisons et comment elles peuvent influer sur les échanges. Elle analyse aussi, d’un point de vue théorique et empirique, les choix qui peuvent être faits par les gouvernements entre différents instruments de politique. Et elle se termine par des études de cas sur l’application des MNT dans le contexte de la récente crise financière, du changement climatique et de la sécurité sanitaire des produits alimentaires.
Acknowledgements
The World Trade Report 2010 was prepared under the general direction of the Deputy Director-General Alejandro Jara and supervised by Patrick Low, Director of the Economic Research and Statistics Division. The principal authors of the Report were Marc Bacchetta, Cosimo Beverelli, John Hancock, Alexander Keck, Gaurav Nayyar, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta, Robert Teh and Alan Yanovich. Other written contributions were provided by Marc Auboin, Mireille Cossy and James Windon. Trade statistics information was provided by the Statistics Group of the Economic Research and Statistics Division, coordinated by Hubert Escaith, Julia de Verteuil, Andreas Maurer and Jurgen Richtering.
Contact with the public
Visitors to the WTO website continue to exceed more than 1.8 million a month. Total page views increased by 14 per cent in 2013, reaching a total of more than 40 million. The WTO attracted an increasing number of followers to its social media pages, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The WTO received over 40,000 public email enquiries in 2013 and welcomed over 160 visiting groups. Fifty-seven new WTO publications were produced.