27/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - In its 2009 report on world trade, the WTO has lowered its forecasts for this year, anticipating a drop in the trade in goods of 10%, rather than 9%. The WTO is therefore calling on its member countries to moderate their use of contingent measures compatible with its rules (safeguard clauses, anti-dumping and compensatory measures, the negotiation of tariff commitments, increasing customs duty to its maximum legal level and export taxes) which are no less harmful for the fact that they constitute a form of insurance or tools of economic adjustment to protect certain sectors from crisis. (E.H./trans.fl)