Archive - 2005

The Global Union representing workers in the textile and clothing sector has released a new video drawing attention to the plight of workers in the sector following the liberalisation of trade at the start of 2005.

Trade ministers of the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Japan and Australia meeting here on Saturday in an informal session hosted by the United States agreed broadly on what can be delivered in next week's Hong Kong trade conference for least-developed countries

ASEAN (fve members) alternative proposal to the Services Annex C for the draft ministerial text

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