Archive - Jul 2006

July 6th

Government to Make Public Announcement on Korea-U.S. FTA

5 July, 2006
The Korean government is to present a public announcement regarding the Korea-U.S. FTA at Central Government Complex on July 7.

July 5th

EU must not turn Brazil into the world's tires dump

4 July, 2006
Brazil may become the tires dump for the developed world, if WTO will accept the complaint introduced by the European Union against Brazil

Developing countries state their concerns at end of WTO meeting

4 July, 2006
Ministers of developing countries expressed their concerns about the Ministerial meeting and the current state of play of the Doha negotiations as

As talks fail, Lamy given new role

4 July, 2006
The Doha negotiations reached crisis point when the WTO Ministerial meetings of last weekend in Geneva fell apart.

U.N. disputes U.S. position on free trade's impact on poverty

4 July, 2006
Asia's poorest countries are being out-muscled economically by China and remain stranded in poverty despite a regional boom in free trade, the United Nations says.

Engineered crisis? Members decided my new role, says Lamy

4 July, 2006
At a media briefing after the WTO meeting closed on 1 July, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy admitted: ''We are in a crisis.'

July 1st

WTO must not force bad trade deal on poor

30 June, 2006
News that the major powers are trying to bypass negotiations in order to force through a trade deal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has met with an angry response from trade justice campaigners.

WTO Talks Collapse ? Good News for the Developing World

30 June, 2006
The illegitimate Mini Ministerial which the WTO