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Peter Ungphakorn
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This tweet has generated some comment about government-owned railway services in the EU.

Those comments may be right, but they miss the point that EU rules affecting the ownership of rail services are not part of the EU customs union

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It's very basic but seems to need to be clarified.

A UK-EU customs union would not be NOT the same as the EU single market. (It's not even the same as the EU customs union).

It wouldn't get into ownership of public services.

See👇🏽

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I'm going to stop tweeting for a while. Far too many typos.

2/2 above 👆🏽 should say:

"A UK-EU customs union would NOT be the same as the EU single market. (It's not even the same as the EU customs union)."
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Peter Ungphakorn
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New WTO ruling: the way China manages tariff quotas (low/zero duty on limited imports) on farm products violates WTO rules — the process fails to be transparent, predictable and fair, and could impede trade.

This is a summary of the panel's findings

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wto.org/english/tratop… Screenshot of expanded summary of panel's findings including all the bullet pointsScreenshot of the rest of the summary highlighting
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Download the summaries and full report here: wto.org/english/news_e…

Full WTO coverage of this dispute: wto.org/english/tratop…

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P.S. What are tariff quotas/tariff-rate quotas (TRQs)?

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Peter Ungphakorn
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I'm pleased that the murals in the WTO building get an airing. The film is worth watching but the tone is annoying. Yes, when the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT) took over the building the old murals from the International Labour Organization were covered up. But

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But that may have been as much about changing tastes as anything else. Personally, they're not my style, but they are historical

The WTO wasn't a new owner. It's the same one transformed for an expanded role

The WTO did not immediately install "commodifird" art. First, ...

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First a group of WTO and ILO volunteers learnt about the murals. They persuaded the WTO's management to remove the panels covering them and restore damaged work. I know. Some were close colleagues, and one is even glimpsed in the film. The WTO did it.

It was only later...

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Peter Ungphakorn
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Big news

(It's Friday afternoon, and trade twitter is going to be full of this)
Links for these findings:

Summary of key findings: wto.org/english/tratop…

Full report: wto.org/english/tratop…
Extract: findings and conclusions: wto.org/english/tratop…
Addendum (Annexes A to E): wto.org/english/tratop…

All info on this dispute DS512: wto.org/english/tratop… Screenshot of part of 1 of 3 of summary of key findings, opened by clicking the down arrow to expand the pageScreenshot of part of 2 of 3 of summary of key findings, opened by clicking the down arrow to expand the pageScreenshot of part of 3 of 3 of summary of key findings, opened by clicking the down arrow to expand the page
I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me: while the finding is that Russia was within its rights this is not a blank cheque, ie, there has to be an emergency in international relations

Source: Summary of key findings wto.org/english/tratop… (click the down arrow to see this text) Screenshot of final paragraph of the summary highlighting: had the measures been taken in normal times, i.e. had they not been taken in an “emergency in international relations” (and met the other conditions of Article XXI(b))
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