Global Voices

The Global Implications of Falling Commodity Prices

Mr. R. McDonagh, Deputy Director, World Customs Organization, Brussels, Belgium

Mr. Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization, made a keynote address.

Mr. Hamid Mamdouh, Director, Trade in Services, WTO

The dynamism of a given commodity can be measured by different indicators such as the growth of world export value or the growth of its share in world commodities exports compared to those of other commodities of the same group (in the case of steel minerals and metals ).

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Ten most dynamic commodities in world exports (ranked by growth in export value), 1985 2002.

The group was chaired by Peter Sutherland, a former Director General of WTO and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, its successor.

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His father was an accountant and his mother, a former cryptanalyst during World War II, was a business manager at a retail store.

Commodity export prices are at record levels, global liquidity has been ample, and international interest rates have been low.

On one hand, the US supported China s membership in the World Trade Organization and accepted Chinese goods and visitors.

And, even when times were good, India never gained a foothold in the global manufactured goods trade.

With the consent of the Commission, the presentation was made by Steinar Sørensen, Managing Director of GRID Arendal, and Øivind Lønne, geoscientist.

Advocacy with global and regional trade blocs will be strengthened and industry relations enhanced to focus on essential commodities in poor countries.

Sources UNCTAD, Handbook of Statistics, 2004 (exports and imports of merchandise) and World Bank, World Development Indicators 2005 (GDP).

For example, segmented production for global supply chains has stimulated trade in intermediate goods and promoted foreign direct investment.

Following the Second World War, UNESCO adopted the Hague Convention (1954) which created rules to protect cultural goods during armed conflicts.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

Measures need to be taken at the bilateral, regional and international levels to ensure effective access for goods and services from developing countries to global distribution channels.

Furthermore, ample worldwide liquidity and the rise of other commodity prices induced market speculators to buy into oil futures.

This Code is regularly updated in the light of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, codified by the World Customs Organization

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It provided rich country governments and then WTO Director General Mike Moore with an opportunity to gain the moral high ground over anti globalization protesters.

A commodity price stabilization mechanism should be established and a review, by both WTO and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), of the development dimension of the global intellectual property regime was needed.

And so I resolved to travel around the world examining this global criminal underworld by talking to policemen, by talking to victims, by talking to consumers of illicit goods and services.

Although overall global trade declined by 12 that year, trade in creative goods and services continued to expand.

Today, hundreds of millions of people around the world have access to global goods in their local supermarkets.

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As at 15 October 2005, all 80 recommendations made by BOA either had been implemented (65 per cent) or were in the process of being implemented (35 per cent).

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PARIS Despite the global economic crisis, sales of luxury goods are surging worldwide. Why?

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