Trade Negotiations Insights
From Doha to Cotonou

A joint ECDPM and ICTSD monthly publication on the major issues faced by African and ACP countries in their international trade negotiations at the WTO and with the EU in the context of the Cotonou Agreement

Vol.7, No.7, September 2008

• Getting over those Doha blues
• Banana peace slips through fingers
• Bananas in the Doha Round
• The EU’s General System of Preferences - (to be) continued
• The CARIFORUM EPA and beyond: recommendations for negotiations on services and trade related issues
• Policy space vs. policy lock-in: public procurement in the CARIFORUM EPA AfT: supporting ACP efforts in regional economic integration and EPA implementation
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.7, No.6, July-August 2008

• What if politics finally got involved with world affairs? The Taubira report on EPAs
• Checking the system: a review of trade preferences
• Negotiating Caribbean IP rights: a question of balancing national policy priorities with foreign trade policy?
• EPAs: what is at stake for agriculture and development in Central Africa?
• The Growth Report: the momentum of Africa
• The quest for answers: food and energy security
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.7, No.5, June 2008

• Glass half empty or half full? The move towards a comprehensive EPA
• Aid for Trade in the agricultural sector: reflections on a fruitful dialogue
• Aid for Trade: key issues in the ACP agricultural sector
• Trade and innovation in the EPAs: another step towards re-framing TRIPS
• Rules of origin for fish in interim EPAs
• In focus: Understanding Kenya: post-election crisis, land and the interim EPA
• Monitoring and evaluating the EPA in Mauritius: setting up mechanisms
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.7, No.4, May 2008

• Bridging the divide: the SADC EPA
• Partnership or power play? EPAs fail the development tests
• In Focus: Building an EPA services deal: an important tool for services development in the Comoros
• EPA stocktaking: urgency for a development contest
• MFN in the Cariforum EPA is no threat to South-South trade
• ECOWAS CET: the imperatives of Nigeria's fifth band
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol.7, No.3, April 2008

• Interim EPAs in Africa: What's in them? And what's next?
• The legal status of the initialled EPAs
• Accommodating regional realities: practical issues and challenges for the SADC EPA negotiations
• In focus: Renegotiate the Cariforum EPA
• LDCs rising: the growth of technical capacity
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update

Vol.7, No.2, March 2008

• MFN provisions in the EPAs: a threat to South-South trade?
• Nigerian cocoa processors to lose millions
• The trials and tribulations of Nigerian cocoa processors
• The EAC interim agreement: an overview
• Uganda's EPA: getting the process 'right'
• The EAC interim EPA and Rwanda
• Action stations: advancing a pro-poor services agenda in trade negotiations in 2008
• GI rules: potential and implications for African countries
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.7, No.1, February 2008

• EPA deals as stepping stones or stumbling blocks?
• An interview with DG Development Commissioner Louis Michel
• CARIFORUM EPA negotiations: an initial reflection
• Lessons Learned: the Caribbean EPA market access offer
• The usual last-minute banana peels
• An interview with Sir John Kaputin: Secretary General of the ACP Group
• Public procurement and EPAs
• ACP farmers’ organisations and EPAs: from a whisper to a roar in two short years
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol.6, No.8, December 2007 - January 2008

• Good from far
• Peter Mandelson on the 'end' of the EPA negotiations
• Pacific
• Eastern and Southern Africa
• Southern Africa
• Central Africa
• West Africa
• Caribbean
• ACP and EPAs: Where's the beef?
• In focus: New Aid for Trade Strategy: a window of opportunity
• Economic growth in Africa: will EPAs help or hinder?
• Multilateralism, regionalism and bilateralism in trade and investment. The launch of the first World report on Regional integration
• EPAs and the EU-Africa Strategy: (in)coherence?
• Overview of EPAs initialled
• WTO Roundup
• Calendar and Resources

Vol.6, No.7, November 2007

• EU offers ACP 'two-step' EPAs. Where does development stand?
• Playing poker with livelihoods
• The EPAs: is it really do or die?
• Agricultural safeguard measures in the EPAs
• Namibia's beef with the EPAs
• Aid for trade and Africa
• In focus: Rules of origin. The case for a single set of criteria
• One last call to arms
• WTO Roundup
• EPA negotiations update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.6, No. 6, October 2007

• EPAs: Vision, faith or blindness?
• EU-ACP sugar trade and the EPAs: taking the sweet with the sour
• An interview with: Arvin Boolell, Mariann Fischer Boel
• In Focus: sensitive and special products
• Don’t sign the EPAs: civil society condemns fruitless deals
• UNCTAD warns developing countries on FTAs
• Can EPAs improve governance in ACP countries?
• IPRs: elements for consideration
• ACP must push for Plan B
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & resources

Vol.6, No. 5, September 2007

• EPAs: There is no Plan B - An interview with Peter Mandelson
• Monitoring EPAs: the need to engage
• Sink or Swim? EU investments in ACP fisheries
• The case for Development Benchmarks
• In focus: Trade in services - A threat to intra-regional trade
• In focus: Trade in services - A recipe for sustainable development
• EU, Pacific clash over EPA funds
• Pacific, EU aid dispute: the link between aid and EPAs
• WTO Roundup
• EPA Negotiations Update (for a more detailed version see www.acp-eu-trade.org/epaupdate)
• Calendar & resources

Vol.6, No. 4, July-August 2007

• EPAs: entering the danger zone
• Agreeing EPA rules of origin: a strategy unfolds
• Difficult deadline: challenges of the SADC EPA negotiations
• The complexities of negotiating a West Africa EPA
• EPA negotiations update
• Calendar & Publications

Vol.6, No. 3, May-June 2007

• New chapters in EU banana dispute underway as EPA negotiations speed up
• EU-ACP Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Economic Partnership Agreements: Twelve Summary Recommendations
• Implementing competition provisions in Regional Trade Agreements: Is it possible to assure developmental gains?
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and resources

Vol.6, No. 2, March-April 2007

• Assessing Preferential Trade Agreements using the Sussex Framework
• Continental Review of the EPA Negotiations: a Survey of African Countries
• Equity in Trade Negotiations: a Gender Review of the EPAs
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol.6, No.1, January-February 2007

• Farmers' organisations conduct EPA mid-term review: the case of West Africa
• Aid for Trade as adjustment support or political compensation: Lessons from the BLNS
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol. 5, No. 6, November-December 2006

• EU commitments on Aid for Trade and EPAs
• How to deliver on EPA-related support commitments?
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 5, No. 5, September - October 2006

• Suspended Reality: Key Issues for the ACP after the WTO Impasse
• Suspension of Doha Round and EPAs: the case of Aid for Trade
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol. 5, No. 4, July - August 2006

• ACP-EU Fisheries relations: Who will pay? Who will benefit?
• Beyond AGOA to a US-Africa Partnership?
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol. 5, No. 3, May-June 2006

• Life in the Merry-Go-Doha-Round: Perspectives from a Least Developed Country
• The Institutional Challenge of EPAs
• TNI EPA Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol.5, No. 2, March-April 2006

• Doha negotiations post Hong Kong: Some relevant developments for the ACP
• Financing EPAs
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol.5, No. 1, January- February 2006

• Reviewing EPAs negotiations and alternative scenarios
• Aid for Trade and Capacity building: the case of SPS standards and developing countries
• EPA negotiations update
• WTO Hong Kong deal: What is in it for the ACP group?

Vol.4, No.6, November-December 2005

• The Development Dimensions of EPAs and International Aid for Trade
• The WTO and EPA Negotiations on Agriculture: for Better Coordination of ACP Positions
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol.4, No.5, September-October 2005

• WTO Negotiations in the Lead-Up to Hong Kong: ACP Priorities and Challenges
• The Economic and Welfare Impacts of the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar & Resources

Vol.4, No.4, July-August 2005

• Benchmarks for a pro-development monitoring of EPA negotiations
• The GSP: a solution to the problem of Cotonou and EPAs?
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 4, No. 3, May-June 2005

• Negotiating the trade and development dimensions of EPAs - A way forward
• Commodity Protocolas, the WTO and EPAs
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 4, Issue No.2, March 2005

• Why the European Commission is Wrong about EPAs
• Sharing Information: A Survival Tool for EPA Negotiations
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 4, Issue No.1, January 2005

• The TDCA: perspectives for EU-South and Southern Africa relations
• Preference dependant economies and multilateral liberalization: impacts and options
• EPA Negotiations update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 3, Issue No.6, November 2004

• Textiles and Clothing Trade: What Perspectives for Africa?
• Pacific ACP States - EC Launch EPA Negotiations
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 3, Issue No.5, September 2004

• The WTO July Package: A Step Forward but a Long Road Ahead
• Recent WTO Dispute Settlement Cases: Some Considerations for the ACP
• EPA Negotiations Update

Vol. 3, Issue No.4, July 2004

• EPAs and DDA - Parallelism or Crossroads?
• Negotiating EPAs between African Sub-regions and the EU: Some Concrete Suggestions on Market Access
• Funding Propsects for EPAs: mid-term reviews and availability of resources
• EPA Negotiations Update: State of Play of the Negotiations

Vol. 3, Issue No.3, May 2004

• Launch of CARIFORUM–EC Negotiations of an Economic Partnership Agreement
• Special and Differential Treatment in Post-Cotonou Services Negotiations
• EPA Negotiations Update: State of Play of the Negotiations
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 3, Issue No.2, March 2004

• Perspectives for EPA Negotiations - Challenges for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region
• Perspectives for EPA Negotiations - SADC under Pressure
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 3, Issue No.1, January 2004

• The Journey from Cotonou to Cancun, and beyond: the changing dynamics of WTO and EPA negotiations
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 2, Issue No.4, August 2003

• African Countries Gear Up for the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference
• Are ECOWAS and CEMAC ready to negotiate their EPA?
• EPA Negotiations Update
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 2, Issue No.3, June 2003

• The Survival of African Cotton Between Negotiation and Dispute at the WTO
• Preparing for EPA negotiations: What Role for Sustainability Impact Assessments?
• EPA Negotiations Update: State of Play of the Negotiations
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 2, Issue No.2, April 2003

• Food Safety, the SPS Agreement and EPA Negotiations
• The WTO Agriculture modalities Negotiations: Anticipating the Outcomes of Future EPAs?
• EPA Negotiations Update - State of Play of the Negotiations
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 2, Issue No.1, February 2003

• Beyond Lomé: Challenges and Prospects for ACP Countries
• EPA Negotiations Update: Overview of the Process and State of Play
• Dispute Resolution Under the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement: A Need for Reform?
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 1, Issue No.4, December 2002

• CAP Reform and ACP Preferences: What is at Stake for ACP Countries?
• Services Negotiations Under the Cotonou Agreement: The Scope for Liberalisation
• WTO Compatibility of EPAs
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 1, Issue No.3, September 2002

• Urgent Preparation Needed to Negotiate Economic Partnership Agreements
• Challenges Facing the Caribbean During EPA Negotiations
• Special And Differential Treatment at the WTO And Its Relevance for the ACP-EU Negotiations
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 1, Issue No.2, June 2002

• Questions Raised by the Proposed EC Negotiating Mandate
• EU/ACP Negotiations and the Agriculture Negotiations under the Doha Mandate
• Special and Differential Treatment in WTO Rules in the Context of the ACP/EU Economic Partnership Agreements
• Calendar and Resources

Vol. 1, Issue No.1, February 2002

• The Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health: Does it change anything?
• WTO Negotiations on Implementation Issues: How, Where & When?
• Who will Negotiate with the EU? In Search o an ACP-EU Negotiating Framework
• Calendar and Resources