Archive - 2005

IATP has created three websites directed toward the WTO Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting.

The World Trade Organization's (WTO) new Director-General Mr Pascal Lamy will listen to views of non-government organisations (NGOs) at a roundtable forum in Hong Kong on October 16.

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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