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WTO members were engaging in intense informal negotiations anddiscussions on Friday, 2 December focused on how to respondto the revised draft Ministerial text to be transmitted to the WTO'sHong Kong Ministerial Conference starting 13 December.

Ten days off the ministerial meeting of the WTO in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, on 2 December, published a document proposing a radical reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

a link to an EU non-paper which proposes language for NAMA. The non-paper was floated in the green rooms and widely rejected.

No matter what kind of deal is patched together in Hong Kong, the fundamental rules of the WTO are a recipe for job destruction.

media release: The vegetables Filipinos consume may soon come only from Taiwan, mainland China, or the US rather than the Cordilleras or Ilocos as vegetable imports continue to push out local produce from the domestic market, according to independent think-tank IBON Foundation.

As many as 300 militant protesters due to fly in for this month's WTO ministerial meeting have been put on an official blacklist and will be denied entry into Hong Kong, security sources have revealed.

A revised draft ministerial text for this month's World Trade Organization's sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong was circulated to members yesterday, including new language on 'parallel elimination' of all forms of export subsidies and bracketed language on an 'early harvest' of trade-related measures for four West African cotton producing countries

The second draft Ministerial Text that was submitted to WTO Members this evening

The 'EU Non-paper' that the EC floated in a green room meeting early this week as a response to the November 26 Draft Ministerial Text.

In the remaining days before the World Trade Organization's Hong Kong trade ministerial conference, the United States aims to keep the focus on agriculture especially the market access pillar which lies at the heart of the four year old trade negotiations