Archive

outubro 4th, 2005

2005 Hong Kong Fair Trade Fair and Symposium

3 October, 2005
After a highly successful Fair Trade Fair and Sustainable Trade Symposium at the WTO Ministerial in Cancun 2003, a coalition of international organisations will hold a similar event in Hong Kong in December 2005 during the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference.

outubro 3rd

A US/EU Offer on NAMA

2 October, 2005
The European Union and the United States joined together on Friday to say they are prepared to cap their tariffs for industrial products at 10 percent in the Doha Development Agenda nonagricultural market access negotiations

A New Push to ?Re-energize? Services

2 October, 2005
A new core group of a dozen members of the World Trade Organization tasked recently to 're-energize' the stalled Doha Development Agenda service negotiations has an uphill task ahead of it

US Congress in bad mood about ag trade and WTO

2 October, 2005
Even when it came to the obvious benefits for US agriculture contained in the recent US-Central American Free Trade Agreement, it was difficult weaning support from most members of the House Agriculture Committee, commented a senior committee aide on Friday

Farmers Protests against WTO in Mumbai

2 October, 2005
More than 50,000 farmers from 14 states of India including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Uttranchal, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala and Maharashtra belonging to different farmers unions participated in a huge Rally against WTO in Mumbai.

outubro 1st

Services industry coalition trying, without success, to change view in congress

30 September, 2005
Immigration, an issue of well-documented political toxicity within the United States, is now also complicating efforts to strike a deal in the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.

setembro 30th

US dangles visa bait to avoid farm trouble at WTO

29 September, 2005
The US is planning to win over developing countries so that they tone down their agressive position on WTO farm negotiations by offering to increase the quota of temporary H1B visas.

setembro 29th

Press Release: Canadian activists receive ?alternative Nobel prize?

28 September, 2005
Maude Barlow, National Chair of the Council of Canadians, and Tony Clarke, Director of the Polaris Institute, will be receiving the prestigious Right Livelihood Award (RLA) known worldwide as the

ACTION ALERT: NZ part of huge GATS offensive in Geneva

We urge you to join with us in demanding immediate accountability from our government for its hypocrisy and challenge its complicity in a process that reflects shamefully on us all

New Zealand GATS offensive in Geneva makes mockery of Doha 'Development' Agenda

28 September, 2005
New Zealand is one of eight governments (US, EC, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, South Korea and Taiwan) pushing a scheme that would require all countries, rich and poor, to lock open a minimum number of their services to foreign firms