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Specialty Crop Producers Seek to Keep Trade Laws Off the Table

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 23

Indian PM Outlines Ag Trade Policy

PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT CONFERENCE OF CHIEF MINISTERS ON WTO AND AGRICULTURE AND FOOD MANAGEMENT Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speech at the Conference of Chief Ministers on WTO and Agriculture and Food Management, here today.

Fischler Says New WTO Ag Talks Cannot Focus Solely on EU Policies

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 22

U.S. Rejects EU Proposal Targeting U.S. Domestic Farm Support

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 22

Projections For Grain Exports Shape Policy

Associated Press May 30, 2001 Overly optimistic projections of grain exports are being used as a basis to shape policy for federal farm programs and the Mississippi River, according to a study by a University of Iowa professor.

How US Grain Export Projections from Large Scale Agricultural Sector Models Compare With Reality

Minneapolis - Grain export projections used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and agriculture policy-makers have consistently over-estimated actual exports, according to a new study by Dr. C. Phillip Baumel, a professor of economics at Iowa State University.

House Farm Bill Likely to Keep Subsidies Controversial to EU

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 21

FAO Proposes Food Safety Fund for Least Developed Countries

Food Chemical News | Volume 43, Number 14 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization last week proposed setting up a $98 million fund to help the world's least developed countries improve the safety and quality of their food products.

Farm Groups, Firms Seek to Include Trade Laws in Negotiations

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 More than twenty agriculture groups and agribusiness firms have called on President Bush to leave U.S. trade remedy laws on the table for upcoming multilateral and regional negotiations in an effort to counteract a Senate message earlier this month that U.S. trade laws should not be bargaining chits in trade deals.

The European Union View on Agriculture

United Press International | By ANNA K. HUTCHINSON, Special to UPI Franz Fishler, Austrian-born EU agriculture commissioner, is on a five-day visit to the United States to further negotiations between the EU and United States on agriculture as part of the current round of talks in respect of a further World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalization round.

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