Archive - 2004 - Article

The higly technocratic revision of the General Agreement on trade in Service could entail an unpleasant surprise.

It appears that, for the moment, among the strongest movements opposing the GATS, and other regulatory trade rules, are those that are spreading at the local and regional level.

Participants stressed that access to medicines and health services are vital for the Asian region, especially since this region has the largest share of the world's people.

The Asian Regional Workshop on the WTO TRIPS Agreement and Access to Medicines: Appropriate National Policy Responses was held in Kuala Lumpur on 28-30 November 2004.

Referring to street battles in Seattle and Genoa, he conceded that trade was controversial because it changed the lives of billions.

As India moves to meet a New Year's Day deadline to comply with the TRIPS regime of the WTO the cheap, generic anti-AIDS drugs that this country is famed for could be a thing of the past.

Friends of the Earth revealed today that scientists have been called by the World Trade Organisation to debate the safety of Genetically Modified (GM) foods and crops

The Agriculture Ministry has prepared a note for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that says the WTO framework agreement that Commerce Minister Kamal Nath signed in Geneva last month was a sell-out.

'U.S. duties on shrimp will devastate Vietnam's economy and the country's ability to improve the Lives of its people,' -Dr. Ramesh Khadka

There is only one thing that developing country governments can do with he proposed July framework: dump it.