Trade and Investment Policy  

Open world trade and investment are fundamental ICC objectives. ICC always strongly supported the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and continues to give the same backing to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). ICC mobilised world business to make a major contribution to the eight successive rounds of multilateral negotiations held under GATT auspices to reduce trade barriers. These culminated in the Uruguay Round, which ultimately led to the creation of the WTO. ICC will continue to provide further input on behalf of world business into the work of the WTO on the Doha Development Agenda.

The ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy aims 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.

Projects for 2006

• Mobilise world business support for successfully concluding the Doha Round of trade negotiations by year end.
• Continue to provide strategic business policy input into the Doha Round and develop ICC position on major Doha Round issues not dealt with by other ICC commissions.
• Coordinate input from other ICC commissions into the Doha round, particularly on trade in services.
• In cooperation with other commissions, oversee ICC work on the impact on global business of recent manifestations of extraterritoriality.

Commission Officers

• Chair: Lars Anell, Senior Consultant to the CEO, AB-Volvo (Sweden)
• Vice-Chairs: V L Dutt, Chairman and Managing Director, FCB-KCP Ltd (India); Nancie Johnson, Vice-President, Government Affairs, Dupont, US
• Secretary: Stefano Bertasi, ICC

Task Forces

• Extraterritorality
  Chair: Dieter Lange, Senior Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr (UK)
• Trade and Environment
  Chair: to be appointed

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