Agenda Set for ICAC Meeting in Lubbock
April 20, 2010 The Provisional Agenda of the 69th Plenary Meeting was approved by the Standing Committee of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) at the 504th Meeting in New York City on Friday, April 9, 2010.
Official invitations to the meeting will be mailed at the end of April, and registration for the meeting will begin on May 1. Approximately 500 participants from 50 countries and 10 international organizations are expected.
Topics of discussion will include:
- Resource Constraints and Cotton Production: Sustaining Cotton’s Place in the World Market
- New Developments in Cotton Technologies
- The Impacts of Social and Environmental Standards on Demand for Cotton and Textiles
- The Outlook for Prices of Cotton and Competing Commodities
- The Uruguay Round and Regional Trade Agreements: Are Their Lessons for the Doha Round?
- Improving Industry Efficiency in Storage, Transportation and Handling
- Demand Enhancement: Building on Successful Efforts
- Technical Seminar: “How to lower the cost of cotton production”
- U.S. Futures Market Regulation, Implications for Cotton Price Risk Management
- Best Practices in Cotton Ginning
- Best Practices in Instrument Testing
- Progress Toward Industry Harmonization and Standardization: Instrument Testing, Trade Rules and Pyhtosanitary Rules
- Cost Reduction in the Value Chain
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Agenda Set for ICAC Meeting in Lubbock
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