It appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a genuine effort to reform its economy and adopt the rule of law, |
It is time for the EU to step forward (with an offer) or bear the responsibility for derailing the Doha Round, |
It is time for the EU to step forward (with an offer) or bear the responsibility for derailing the Doha Round. |
It's a big job. The Office of Management and Budget touches every spending and policy decision in the federal government. |
It's a tall order. There's still lots of work to do. |
It's an opportunity to take stock of where we are, but also again we'd hoped it would have been an opportunity to make some tough decisions on at the least the framework for discussions going forward. |
It's going to be tough. |
It's not the silver bullet that's going to solve every problem, ... But it's a substantial change in current law and it does address the Enron issue. |
It's not the silver bullet that's going to solve every problem. But it's a substantial change in current law and it does address the Enron issue. |
Litigation has obviously not proved to be an effective way to resolve this relatively small but highly disruptive agreement, |
Malaysia has been at the forefront of the economic dynamism transforming Asia in recent years. This FTA would be the third we are negotiating in the economically vibrant and strategically important Southeast Asia region. |
My frank assessment is if we can't pull it together next week ... then it will be very difficult to pull together other areas like services and nonagricultural market access in time for a successful Hong Kong meeting, |
Now the challenge is, how do we get something on market access from the EU. |
Now we've got someone who is really hands-on and willing to assert himself more, which I think can be really positive. |
On the heels of the G-20 and Australian offerings on sensitive products, we hope to see much more ambition from the EU. The current EU proposal allows for 8 percent of tariffs, 160 different tariff lines, to be deemed 'sensitive' and thus exempt from strong cuts, |