Trade Policy Review Body 22 January 2010 - Overview of Developments in the International Trading Environment - Record of the Meeting
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World Trade
Organization WT/TPR/OV/M/7
3 March 2010 (10-1156) Trade Policy Review Body
22 January 2010
OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
INTERNATIONAL TRADING ENVIRONMENT
Record of the Meeting
Chairperson: H.E. Mr. Istvan Major (Hungary)
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY THE CHAIRPERSON
"The purpose of this meeting is for the TPRB to carry out its annual overview of developments in the international trading environment, as mandated by Paragraph G in Annex 3 of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO.
The Annual Overview is to be assisted by a Report from the Director-General, which was circulated in document WT/TPR/OV/12 on 18 November 2009. Under normal circumstances, we should have met in December, but due to the Ministerial Conference we decided to postpone our meeting to January instead. The amount and quality of the information contained in the Director-General's Report is impressive, and its contents remain valid for our purpose today. It is true t