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                                <title><![CDATA[ Japan to WTO: China's Fukushima-related seafood ban 'totally unacceptable' ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Tokyo's foreign ministry says Japan has also requested China to hold discussions over the Fukushima-related import ban based on the provisions of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WTO postpones decision on Covid-linked patent waiver ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Public interest groups, already harshly critical of the original deal for not going far enough, are outraged by the decision. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WTO agrees to lift Covid vaccine patents, but is it ‘too late’? ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Under the terms of the new deal, WTO members have six months to decide on whether to extend the measures 'to cover the production and supply of Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics'. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WTO agrees on fishing, food and Covid vaccine deals ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:08:39 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The ministerial conference also agreed on deals on e-commerce, responding to pandemics and reforming the organisation itself. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Malaysia calls for trade openness, says curbs during food crisis should be temporary ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:53:57 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ International Trade and Industry Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali says any emergency measures should be targeted and proportionate. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Countries haggle through the night to salvage WTO deals ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Countries have hit a brick wall trying to secure each separate deal on its own merits, so are now making tit-for-tat offers in an attempt to keep them all afloat. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WTO seeks shot in the arm with Covid jab IP idea ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:25:08 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Under discussion is whether countries that produce more than 10% of global vaccines would be ineligible to use the waiver, or whether countries would self-declare that the waiver should not apply to them. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Cautious optimism at high-stakes WTO meet ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:10:47 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Top of the agenda at the four-day meeting is the toll Russia's war in Ukraine, traditionally a breadbasket that feeds hundreds of millions of people, is having on food security. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Main negotiators reach ‘outcome’ on Covid vaccine IP waiver ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 01:13:50 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hopes for a final deal by June. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ WTO chief hails Covid vaccines IP compromise ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ But the global trade body says the compromise would need the backing of all WTO members to come into force. ]]></description>
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