Trade :
          E-com pluri-talks a reality, so better join, says UNCTAD SG   (PRIV) 
        
	(Chakravarthi Raghavan, Geneva) 
        
        The plurilateral talks for e-comm erce rules at the WTO, mooted by 76 countries, is a reality, though 88 other mem bers cannot or will not participate, and "it is my hope that those holding out a re not blackmailing the system but have legitimate issues that can be brought on b oard," UNCTAD Secretary-General Dr Mukhisa Kituyi has said. 
         
        
	
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       Trade :
          US threatens to slap $11 billion duties on EU goods   (PRIV) 
        
	(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva) 
        
        The United States has opened a new front i n its expanding trade wars with countries, threatening to punish its Trans-Atlant ic trade partner, the European Union, by imposing additional import duties on Europe an goods worth $11 billion under the provisions of Section 301 of the US Trade  Act of 1974. 
         
        
	
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