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Contactos con la comunidad empresarial
En 2014, la OMC siguió estrechando lazos con la comunidad empresarial. Tanto los grupos empresariales como las empresas individuales se interesan cada vez más por las funciones y actividades de la OMC, como se hizo patente en el Foro Público de 2014 titulado “Por qué el comercio nos concierne a todos”, en el que los círculos empresariales tuvieron una amplia representación. El número de visitas del sector privado a la OMC ha aumentado considerablemente en 2014.
Report by the WTO Secretariat
Historical trends
This chapter provides additional statistical information to support understanding of the trends in merchandise trade and trade in commercial services.
Trade in goods
At the meetings of the Council for Trade in Goods, WTO members addressed a large number of trade concerns, including measures, policies and practices considered potentially discriminatory or trade restricting. Some of these concerns had already been raised in the past. The Council also considered a number of waiver requests and took note of an updated and comprehensive list of notifications submitted by members under Annex 1A of the WTO Agreement. Gabon announced the conclusion of renegotiations of its tariff commitments.
Natural resources, international cooperation and trade regulation
This section discusses international regulation of trade in natural resources. It starts with an overview of the legal framework of the WTO and briefly addresses how natural resources fit within this. Rather than attempt an exhaustive treatment of every WTO rule that may have a bearing on trade in natural resources, this section sets out the rules that have particular relevance for this kind of trade, and considers whether, and to what extent, these rules respond to the salient characteristics of natural resource sectors. This section also presents a selection of international agreements that regulate trade in natural resources and discusses their relationship with WTO disciplines. It ends by focusing on a number of issues in this sector that appear to be of actual or potential relevance to international cooperation and to the multilateral trading system.
Agradecimientos y Descargo de responsabilidad
El Informe sobre el Comercio Mundial 2016 ha sido elaborado bajo la responsabilidad general de Xiaozhun Yi, Director General Adjunto de la OMC, y Robert Koopman, Director de la División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística. El informe de este año ha sido coordinado por Marc Bacchetta y Cosimo Beverelli. Los autores del informe son Marc Auboin, Marc Bacchetta, Cosimo Beverelli, Barbara D’Andrea, Christophe Degain, Alexander Keck, Andreas Maurer, José- Antonio Monteiro, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini y Robert Teh (División de Estudios Económicos y Estadística); Antonia Carzaniga, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan Marchetti, Lee Tuthill y Ruosi Zhang (División de Comercio de Servicios e Inversión).
Doha Development Agenda
At the 4th Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, WTO member governments agreed to launch new trade negotiations. They also agreed to work on other issues, in particular the implementation of the current WTO agreements. The entire package is called the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) or the Doha Round. The negotiations take place in the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC) and its subsidiaries, which are usually regular councils and committees meeting in ‘special session’ or specially created negotiating groups. The chairs of the nine negotiating bodies report to the TNC, chaired by the WTO Director-General, which coordinates their work.