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Attorneys general from 29 states called on the Bush Administration this week to consult with them more closely when formulating positions on the services negotiations in the Doha round.

Summary of EU's revised services offer in the WTO negotiations.

World trade talks could slip up over bananas at a key meeting in December if Latin America digs its heels in over a row with Europe that has simmered all year

A decade of unhampered entry of goods and investments to Third World markets and continued profit for the growing transnational corporations of rich countries. Through all these, poor countries were left to bite the dust.

Prepared by the Communications Division of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), this electronic newsletter focuses on the RNM, trade negotiation issues within its mandate and related activities.

A bipartisan group of some two dozen members of Congress May 27 called on U.S. negotiators to 'stand firm' against efforts to weaken U.S. trade laws in talks at the World Trade Organization scheduled to be held the week of May 30.

Independent think-tank IBON Foundation urges Philippine trade negotiators to the World Trade Organization (WTO) not to submit any offer on the services talks without substantially improved Mode 4 offers from developed countries like the US.

The Philippines has not much to gain except on Mode 4 and a great deal to suffer from liberalizing its services sector

The chairman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee this week demanded that the new U.S. Trade Representative renew a vow that the Bush Administration will not agree to additional changes to U.S. immigration or antitrust laws

The (Australian) Government