Archive - 2005 - Article

Negotiations aimed at producing a new global trade pact are moving very slowly on trade in services

The Group of 33 developing countries is upbeat about its chances that World Trade Organization members will accept its proposal on the implementation details of special and differential treatment in protecting staple farm products.

'NO countries will remain sovereign and advance if they keep depending on their food needs externally!

At the June 2-3 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Cheju, Korea, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Portman and Trade Ministers from the 20 other APEC economies unanimously endorsed a strong statement advancing an ambitious outcome to the WTO Doha negotiations and spurring further progress toward free and open trade and investment in the Asia Pacific region.

In another signal of congressional unease with U.S. trade policies and China's growing presence in the world trading system, more than 80 House members today voted in favor of a resolution calling for the United States to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.

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Senior trade officials from the US and Australia had welcomed the agreement, with Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile saying that it would 'inject new momentum' into the talks at the WTO.

As the Organization of American States completes its three-day session debating the role of free trade and neoliberalism in fostering democracy for the continent, the country of Bolivia is on the brink of a civil war over that very question.

African ministers have adopted a declaration on EPAs calling for singapore issues to be out of the EPAs

Part of the push came from the strong support for an ambitious NAMA approach tabled earlier this week by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation trade ministers, who met last week in South Korea.