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//* COMPONENT : 2008 News Arrays - English
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ni_head:"DSB adopts compliance rulings in US complaint on the EC banana regime",
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ni_head:"DSB adopts compliance rulings in Ecuador’s complaint on the EC banana regime",
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ni_head:"DSB sets up panel to examine Thailand’s measures on cigarettes and adopts rulings on India’s duties on imports ",
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ni_head:"DSB adopts rulings in disputes concerning continued sanctions in the beef-hormones cases",
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ni_head:"WTO to move quickly on wider front in 2009 — Lamy",
ni_intro:"Director-General Pascal Lamy told the Trade Negotiations Committee on 17 December 2008 that “concluding the Round should remain our focus in 2009 but this endeavour takes place within a more global portfolio of WTO activities”. He proposed immediate resumption of work across all negotiating groups in the new year, as well as “on the wider WTO front” like monitoring trade measures taken in relation to the financial crisis, trade finance and Aid for Trade.",
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ni_head:"The Netherlands offers CHF13 million to WTO training programme for developing countries",
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