Archive - 2007 - Article

January 18th

Water Privatization & Investment Disputes: The Case of Biwater v. Tanzania

17 January, 2007
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and the Lawyers

January 17th

Optimistic USTR admits nowhere near ‘breakthrough’

16 January, 2007
The United States Trade

Committee: Rafidah skirting main FTA issues news report of our farmers coalition questioning our Minister of International Trade.

16 January, 2007
International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz has not addressed the main concerns surrounding the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), claimed a regional grouping of fishermen and farmers today.

January 15th

No Artificial Deadlines - USTR Schwab

14 January, 2007
'Content' and 'substance' - not artificial deadlines - will set the stage for a breakthrough in the precarious Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said here on Friday after a face-to-face meeting with World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy.

SA may play role in Canada-US trade tiff

14 January, 2007
IN A move analysts say could help restart stalled world trade negotiations, Canada has taken the US to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over trade-distorting maize subsidies.

French trade view irks Mandelson

14 January, 2007
Peter Mandelson has accused France of being 'needlessly defensive' over farm subsidy cuts as he and other officials try to revive global trade talks.

January 13th

G-33 asks World Bank to tweak ?flawed? paper on special products

12 January, 2007
The World Bank has come under a torrent of criticism from the G-33 group, comprising India and 45 other developing countries, for its paper, which called for raising agricultural prices substantially through special products (SPs)

January 12th

Mr. Falconer and the Farm Negotiations

11 January, 2007
As 2007 starts off as a 'make-or-break' year for the languishing Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations, the chair of the current agriculture negotiations - New Zealand's Crawford Falconer - feels strongly that a deal is do-able despite many unresolved issues.

Geneva Update: MOVING FORWARD IN 2007: how to let go of the past and embrace the present

11 January, 2007
CONTENTS: I. THE WTO IN 2006: a year in review; II. LETTING GO OF AN IDEOLOGY: embracing the present; III. WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2007; IV. IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER; V. DOCUMENTS

The Implications of Dumping of Agricultural Products in Asia: Asian Farmers? Untold Misery

11 January, 2007
The push for tariff reduction worldwide along with the pressure to eliminate production subsidies, which has been largely commanded by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has brought serious repercussions to the dominantly agrarian Asian economies.