Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson PCis a British Labour politician, president of international think tank Policy Network and Chairman of strategic advisory firm Global Counsel. He served as Member of Parliamentfor Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, and held a number of Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was also the European Commissioner for Trade between 2004 and 2008...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 October 1953
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continues to keep everything else blocked at the gate, we cannot get to Hong Kong in the shape we need.
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The problem has been caused by importers trying to beat the restrictions after the Shanghai Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on June 10,
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Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
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SA needs to push the G-20 (Group of 20 developing nations) to open their markets.
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have been pushed into a sort of agricultural siding by some very aggressive agricultural producing countries whose interests do not necessarily coincide with the bulk of developing countries.
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I don't think people will complain about that, in particular those who bring some perspective to this matter.
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If we do not advance this negotiation in concrete terms this week -- and among ourselves today -- we will have to acknowledge that we may simply run out of time for Hong Kong,
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My fear is that in lowering expectations for Hong Kong, we will cause the overall ambition for the round to fall.
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Of course, there's an investigation following claims of dumping,
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China is not yet qualified to receive the recognition of market economy status by Europe. There are technical criteria which China needs to fulfill, in which it's making progress towards fulfilling.
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There is progress in agriculture, even though we are still looking for further commitments from others. However, this progress is not matched in industrial goods or services. This lack of balance is a real problem and points to the ground we need to make up at Hong Kong.
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We have found a satisfactory and equitable way of dealing with the overshoots in certain of the textile categories,
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But my (EU) member states will simply not accept further first moves from the EU which are pocketed without parallel moves by others,
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I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.