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WTO Strikes 'Landmark' IT Trade Deal

World Trade Organisation members reach a deal on IT tariffs worth 1.3 trillion dollars. Plus, top tips for investment in Iran after the nuclear deal.

The World Trade Organisation has reached a deal to cut tariffs across the world on a range of technology related products from video games consoles to printer ink cartridges. We speak to the WTO's Director General, Roberto Azevedo, and John Neuffer, President and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association.

How much will the recent deal on Iran's nuclear programme open up the country to outsiders? Dr Robert Shapiro is a former US Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs - he explains what investment opportunities foreign companies are looking into.

The British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has gained the green light from regulators in Europe for its Malaria vaccine. Glaxo's chief executive, Andrew Whitty, tells the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ it is a major breakthrough while Tara Prasad, Lead Researcher at the Access to Medicine Foundation, explains what doctors in Sub-Saharan Africa will make of GSK's Mosquirix vaccine.

And we round up the big stories of the last seven days in our weekly discussion with guests Emma Hogan of the Economist in London and Peter Coy of Bloomberg Businessweek in New York.

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Fri 24 Jul 2015 22:32GMT

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  • Fri 24 Jul 2015 22:32GMT