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July 17th, 2006

G8 to give trade a push

16 July, 2006
Group of Eight leaders met key developing countries on Monday to give a push to world trade talks at a big-power summit strained by divisions over the Middle East.

G-6 Agrees To Meet Twice In July After Push From G-8 Leaders

16 July, 2006
Trade ministers from the U.S. and five other World Trade Organization members have agreed at a meeting today (July 17) to gather again twice this month in Geneva in an effort to push the struggling WTO talks forward.

Numsa plan marches on US and EU embassies over tariffs reductions

16 July, 2006
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is to stage countrywide general strikes in August to halt removal of industrial tariffs which are expected to open up markets and destroy more jobs and industries.

July 14th

G8: no mandate to take world trade negotiations forward; Development and Environment NGOs as well as trade unions warn of de-industrialization and environmental destruction as a result of cuts in industrial tariffs

13 July, 2006
Leading industrial powers will aim to move forward the global trade negotiations, which failed at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in June, when they meet at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, from tomorrow. Development and environment groups as well as trade unions condemn this as illegitimate.

Schwabb expresses hope for Doha despite daunting challenges

13 July, 2006
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab last Friday (July 7) insisted the only Doha deal the U.S. will accept is an ambitious one, and stressed that this requires a definition of how sensitive agriculture products will be treated so that members will know exactly how much market access they are to get.

July 13th

Uncertainty and confusion at WTO after failed Ministerial

12 July, 2006
There has been an unusually quiet atmosphere at the World Trade Organisation since the Ministerial-level meetings ended on 1 July without substantive result.

Nath sticks to guns at meeting with Lamy

12 July, 2006
Commerce & industry minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday said that India cannot offer further market access in agriculture and industrial goods sector, till developed countries agree to reduce agriculture subsidies substantially.

Mandelson wants Europe to flex its trade muscles

12 July, 2006
The EU must pursue an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets to its goods and services even if the current round of world trade liberalisation talks is successful, according to a paper drawn up by the directorate-general of Peter Mandelson, the European commissioner for trade.

July 12th

The WTO and the World´s Poor

11 July, 2006
As President Bush once tried to say, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Paul Wolfowitz, who fooled us once when he was pitching the line about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, is now out to fool us again.

July 11th

New Report Projects Shrinking Market For U.S. Imports; Implications “Enormous” for G-8 Talks, WTO, Developing Countries

10 July, 2006
A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that U.S. imports, measured in non-dollar currencies, are projected to decline over the next decade.