NAIROBI Cedric Ogbuehi Womens Jersey , Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Over 50 World Trade Organization (WTO) members have reached agreement on phasing out tariffs on imports of 201 information technology products.
The deal was announced at a WTO ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
The Information Technology Agreement (ITA) expansion, which will ultimately remove tariffs on products such as printers, cartridges, video cameras, DVDs, and medical care products Josh Malone Womens Jersey , will enable all WTO members enjoy duty-free market access.
"I am delighted to mark this breakthrough here today at the ministerial conference," said WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo. "This is a very significant achievement."
According to the WTO, annual trade in ITA products is valued at 1.3 trillion U.S. dollars, accounting for about a tenth of total global trade.
"Eliminating tariffs on trade of this magnitude will have a huge impact. It will support lower prices -- including in many other sectors that use IT products as inputs -- it will create jobs and it will help to boost GDP growth around the world," the WTO chief said.
"This agreement is the first major tariff elimination deal at the WTO since 1996. I hope that this success will serve to inspire progress elsewhere in our work," he added.
For every product on the list Carl Lawson Womens Jersey , ITA participants have negotiated the level of reductions and over how many years it will fully eliminate the tariffs.
As a result of these negotiations, about 65 percent of tariff lines will be fully eliminated by July 1, 2016. Most of the remaining tariff lines will be completely phased out in four stages over three years, meaning that by 2019 almost all imports of the relevant products will be duty-free, according to the WTO.
The biannual WTO ministerial conference from Tuesday to Friday is the first such meeting on African soil in two decades.
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"We previously showed that mobile phones can be used for microscopy," lead author Daniel Fletcher, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "But this is the first device that combines the imaging technology with hardware and software automation to create a complete diagnostic solution."
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A strategy to identify and exclude people highly infected with Loa loa from treatment has been recommended. However, the current gold standard method requires a conventional light microscope to manually count the worms in a blood smear, which can take a trained technician at least a day to complete.
To rapidly screen for Loa loa infections in community settings, the team developed CellScope Loa, a video microscope integrating an Apple iPhone 5s.
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No special preparation of the blood is required, limiting potential error and sample loss, and healthcare workers need minimal training to use the automated device, they said.
When used to screen 33 potentially Loa loa-infected individuals in Cameroon, the device closely matched results from standard microscopy.
Although additional work is needed, the researchers predicted that a team of three workers could screen up to 200 people during the four-hour midday window when Loa loa circulates at its peak in the blood.
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The researchers are now expanding the study of CellScope Loa to about 40,000 people in Cameroon.