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- EU blocks US, Japan, Taiwan bid for WTO ruling on hi-tech imports
- GENEVA AFP — The WTO said Friday that the European Union had blocked a joint request by the United States, Japan and Taiwan for the Geneva-based body to settle a dispute over duties on high-technology imports. Earlier this month, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the three parties were...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- US free to 'insist' WTO hear high-tech dispute with EU: official
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is free to "insist" that the World Trade Organization hear a dispute over high-technology import duties after the European Union blocked its request for WTO arbitration. After the EU move, "the United States is able to insist that a panel be established at...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- WTO, US trade chiefs in bid to revive Doha Round
- WASHINGTON AFP — World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy and US trade negotiator Susan Schwab held talks in Washington Friday in an effort to breathe life into the moribund Doha Round of negotiations. Lamy's visit to the US capital comes on the heels of his trip to India last...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- World Bank suggests limits on disputed WTO farm safeguard
- WASHINGTON AFP — World Bank chief Robert Zoellick on Monday suggested limits for a proposed agricultural safeguard that torpedoed WTO trade talks last month, saying the world's poor need a successful Doha Round. "Given the high food prices around the world and the need for poor people to lower...
- Research articles 2008-08-18
- Brazil's president consulting with US, China, India over WTO
- SAO PAULO AFP — Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced Saturday that he has launched consultations with the United States, China and India to salvage world trade talks that recently collapsed. Lula said he had discussed the issue with US President George W. Bush by telephone and...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Fresh WTO talks must wait until after US election: economists
- PARIS AFP — Any new attempt to grasp the grail of a world trade pact will probably have to wait until next year, after elections in the United States and India, despite some calls for more talks now, economists say. The head of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, who stressed...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Losing the global development war; a contemporary critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO
- Losing the global development war; a contemporary critique of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO. Head, John W. BRILL 2008 344 pages $65.00 Paperback HG1975 Writing for a general readership, Head (international and comparative law, U. of Kansas) offers a...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- WTO talks revival chances appear slim in US
- WASHINGTON AFP — This week's collapse of WTO talks suggests dim prospects for broadening global free trade with US President George Bush set to leave office and American support for such deals waning, analysts say. With the presidential election only three months away, the prospects for making progress on...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- High tension at WTO as trade talks face 'appalling' collapse
- GENEVA AFP — Tension rose sharply as gruelling WTO talks to hammer out a global trade pact ran into a ninth day on Tuesday, with leading nations urging flexibility to avert an "appalling" collapse. Describing the mood in a morning meeting of ministers, Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Wrecked WTO talks change the world trade game
- GENEVA AFP — Ministers saw a "new order" take hold in global commerce Wednesday, with emerging economies calling the shots after WTO plans for a new trade pact collapsed in a feared blow for millions of the world's poor. "One thing that we can celebrate is that deals here...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- WTO failure bodes ill for climate change: delegates
- GENEVA AFP — The failure of key powers to agree a new pact on global trade does not bode well for international cooperation in other areas such as climate change, top delegates warned Tuesday. The European Union's agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel told journalists that the collapse of talks after...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- WTO talks sour as 'blame game' begins
- GENEVA AFP — The United States, China and India exchanged hard words as WTO negotiations dragged into a second week on Monday, with Washington accusing India and China of hampering progress to a world trade pact, delegates said. "The blame game has started. The US began by pointing its...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- WTO talks enter tense endgame: officials
- GENEVA AFP — Talks to forge a new global trade pact teetered on the brink of collapse Tuesday as the World Trade Organization said the mood was "very tense" and major powers blamed each other for the deadlock. "The situation is very tense, things are finely balanced and the...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- US 'concerned' about some countries' direction on WTO talks
- GENEVA AFP — The United States is "very concerned" about the direction taken by certain countries at negotiations here on a global trade deal, warning that it could "jeopardise" the outcome of the talks. "We're very much concerned about the direction that a couple of countries are taking," said...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Key players look to bolster consensus at world trade talks
- GENEVA AFP — Top negotiators prepared Sunday to try to firm up emerging signs of consensus on a new global trade pact, with signs that marathon talks here will spill into another week. Key players in the delicate negotiations were buoyed Saturday by broadly positive talks on the services...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- WTO scrambles for fresh options on trade pact
- GENEVA, AFP — Top negotiators prepared to turn to fresh proposals Monday in a bid to nail a new global trade free trade pact despite growing discord and warnings that years of painstaking negotiations could unravel at the last minute. Squabbles among emerging economies threatened to shatter fragile gains...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- EU, Latin America close to banana deal at WTO: sources
- GENEVA AFP — European and Latin American negotiators are close to a deal that would end a quarter of a century of "banana wars" as part of mammoth trade talks here, sources close to the negotiations said Sunday. "The two sides are busy putting the final touches to an...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- EU wants improved trade deal from Mandelson: France
- GENEVA AFP — EU member states want trade negotiator Peter Mandelson to improve the terms of a draft trade agreement under discussion by WTO countries here, French Trade Minister Anne-Marie Idrac said Saturday. She said European Union nations had to "improve the accord" proposed late Friday by WTO chief...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- WTO talks reach make-or-break point
- GENEVA AFP — Crucial World Trade Organisation talks entered make-or-break mode Friday as negotiators struggled to avert the collapse of the seven-year attempt to broker a global free-trade pact. Beginning a fifth and planned final day of meetings, diplomats and negotiators admitted that little progress has been made so...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- WTO talks face collapse
- GENEVA AFP — WTO head Pascal Lamy warned on Friday that talks on a global free-trade pact faced collapse as leading nations searched here for a way to break a seven-year log jam. "We need to change gears very quickly to turn things around," Lamy was quoted as saying...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
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