Archive - Jul 5, 2006

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

4 July, 2006
By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
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.

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

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

Engineered crisis? Members decided my new role, says Lamy

4 July, 2006
By Kanaga Raja, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
At a media briefing after the WTO meeting closed on 1 July, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy admitted: ''We are in a crisis.'

As talks fail, Lamy given new role

4 July, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
The Doha negotiations reached crisis point when the WTO Ministerial meetings of last weekend in Geneva fell apart.

Developing countries state their concerns at end of WTO meeting

4 July, 2006
By Martin Khor, TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues
Ministers of developing countries expressed their concerns about the Ministerial meeting and the current state of play of the Doha negotiations as