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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11455

17 December 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 20 / 35
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) trade
Agreement in Nairobi on revision of WTO's IT agreement

Nairobi, 16/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - On the sidelines of the WTO ministerial conference in Nairobi on Wednesday 16 December, the trade ministers of the 53 WTO member countries - led by the EU, the US, China, Japan, Canada and Costa Rica - concluded an agreement revising the WTO's 1997 information technology agreement (ITA) so as to extend the list of products covered to 201 new products (for which annual world trade is estimated at $1.3 billion). This is the first tariff reduction agreement...

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EUROPEAN COUNCIL
SECTORAL POLICIES
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
EXTERNAL ACTION
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
ECONOMY - FINANCE
INSTITUTIONAL
NEWS BRIEFS