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>The mandate of the Commission on Trade and Investment Policy is to break down barriers to international trade and investment so that all countries can benefit from improved living standards through increased trade and investment flows.

ICC appoints new Chair of Commission on Trade and Investment Policy

Paris, 31 October 2008

Rajya V. Kanoria, Chairman and Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd. and President of ICC India, has been appointed Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy, ICC’s main working body on multilateral trade and investment policy issues.

ICC-ECIPE panel session examines changing realities of global trading system
Paris, 30 September 2008 ICC coorganized a successful panel session together with the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) on the occasion of the 2008 WTO Public Forum, held at World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva on 24-25 September 2008.

ICC takes part in UN hearings on Financing for Development
Paris, 27 June 2008 ICC participated in hearings on the review of the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development on 18 June at the UN headquarters in New York.

ICC urges WTO members to reach agreement on Doha Round negotiations on agriculture and industrial products
Paris, 22 May 2008 Following this week’s publication of revised negotiating texts on agriculture and industrial products, ICC today called on all WTO members to seize the opportunity offered by these texts to reach agreement on these key issues, with a view to successfully concluding the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations by the end of this year.

Economists see more gloom for global economy, according to latest ICC/Ifo survey
Paris, 20 May 2008 Economists said global economic growth has slowed further since the beginning of the year and they expected growth to continue slackening over the coming six months, according to the last ICC/Ifo World Economic Survey released today

ICC reaffirms its support to trade and development at UN conference
Accra, Ghana, 30 April 2008 A few hours before the opening of the meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which took place from 20-25 April in Accra, Ghana, a select number of senior business and government delegates met in closed quarters to discuss the current global challenges facing the world. The food crisis, the rise of new forms of investment protectionism, climate change, the Millennium Development Goals and the emergence of the new South, were the key topics of discussion.

ICC steps up support to Doha trade deal in meeting with WTO head
Geneva, 27 March 2008 In a meeting yesterday with Pascal Lamy, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), ICC Secretary General Guy Sebban lent the strong and unswerving support of world business behind a final push to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations by the end of the year.

ICC calls on governments to avoid investment protectionism
Paris, 5 March 2008 ICC’s Commission on Trade and Investment Policy has urged governments to safeguard freedom of investment by avoiding investment protectionism in a new policy statement.