The International Institute for Trade and Development (ITD), in collaboration with the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Institute of Business Economics Research and Development (IBERD), is organizing the activity on“WTO-ITD Regional Workshop for ASEAN Journalists” from 16 to 18 May 2011 at the Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok.The course content will cover:

• The basics of the multilateral trading system and selected areas of WTO work — agriculture, market access, rules, intellectual property, disputes, aid for trade, etc.

• The benefits and challenges of membership, the regional experience from the points of view of long-standing membership and recent accession.

• The Doha Round in a critical year: the latest situation overall and in some key subjects, the 2011 push to conclude the round, and its implications for the region. How the negotiations are organized and the “development dimension”?.

• Regionalism, free trade agreements, development
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