Trade monitoring

El órgano supremo para la adopción de decisiones de la OMC es la Conferencia Ministerial, que normalmente se reúne cada dos años.

The first joint Trade Policy Review of the eight member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has allowed us to deepen our understanding of the regional and national economic and trade regimes, as well as their developments since 2011. We are grateful to the Secretariat and the Members under review, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, as well as the WAEMU Commission, for the comprehensive reports prepared for this TPR. I would also like to thank our discussant Ambassador Didier Chambovey from Switzerland, and the 28 delegations that took the floor for their valuable contributions to this Review.

WTO members focused on implementing outcomes from the Nairobi and Bali ministerial conferences and on responding to instructions from ministers in Nairobi on trade negotiations. Following a period of reflection in the first half of the year, there was re-energized and constructive engagement from July onwards across several areas of negotiations as members began to look towards the 11th Ministerial Conference to be held in Buenos Aires in December 2017. In response to the success in Bali and Nairobi, the private sector urged the WTO to deliver further outcomes to boost growth and development.

Este quinto examen de las políticas comerciales de Costa Rica nos ha permitido conocer más a fondo los regímenes de comercio e inversión de ese país en comparación con el último examen, realizado en 2013. Deseo dar las gracias al Excelentísimo Sr. Duayner Salas, Viceministro de Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica, a la Embajadora Gloria Abraham y al resto de la delegación costarricense por su participación activa y constructiva. También quiero agradecer al Embajador Mikael Anzén, Representante Permanente de Suecia ante la OMC, sus observaciones como ponente, que fueron fundamentales para encuadrar nuestros debates, y a las 33 delegaciones que hicieron uso de la palabra en esta reunión. Costa Rica ha presentado respuestas escritas completas a casi todas las 350 preguntas que los Miembros formularon anticipadamente por escrito.

The World Trade Report 2005 begins with a brief review of salient trends in international trade, focusing firstly on recent developments and then examining medium-term developments in the oil sector and the pharmaceutical sector. Section II of WTR 2005 contains the core topic of this year’s Report, which is standards and trade in the context of the WTO. The Section looks first at the economics of standards and trade, and then at a range of institutional and policy issues. This is followed by a discussion of standards in the multilateral trading system. Section III of the Report takes up three discrete and topical issues of relevance to international trade. The three thematic essays in this Section are on the use of quantitative economics in WTO dispute settlement, trade in air transport services and offshoring services. The essay on the use of quantitative economic analysis in WTO dispute settlement procedures explains the kinds of quantitative techniques and econometric models that have been applied in various WTO legal disputes and discusses the use that was made of such analysis in a selected range of cases. The essay on trade in air transport services takes a close look at key characteristics of the industry and examines how it has evolved over time. The analysis also considers the economics of this sector, and a number of issues relating to competition, regulation, governance and trade in air transport services. Finally, the essay on offshoring services considers the economic characteristics of the activity, its scope and implications, and how it is relevant to the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

En 2014 la OMC recibió 22 nuevas notificaciones relativas a acuerdos comerciales regionales (ACR), frente a 35 en 2013. Las notificaciones concernían a 11 ACR. Uno de ellos era un acuerdo entre interlocutores desarrollados y otros siete eran acuerdos entre interlocutores desarrollados y en desarrollo. Los tres restantes eran acuerdos entre países en desarrollo. Europa y la región de Asia y el Pacífico presentaron el mayor número de notificaciones (seis cada una), mientras que las Américas y la región de la Comunidad de Estados Independientes (CEI) presentaron cuatro notificaciones cada una.