Environment

Japan to Set Up Team to Prevent Protests at Summit

TOKYO, Feb 4 (Reuters) -- Fearing demonstrators will wreck the Group of Eight summit in July, Japan said on Friday it would set up a special task force to try to prevent a repeat of the protests that disrupted December's world trade talks in Seattle.

Clinton Is Beating the Drum for Imports as Trade Fights Loom

The Wall Street Journal By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- GOP Rep. David Dreier of California, a free-trade true believer, remembers the moment well: In the galley of Air Force One, somewhere over South America, he urged President Clinton to say something nice about imports for a change.

Sweeney Letter on China Vote

Inside US Trade January 28, 2000 Dear Representative:

Chile""s Free Trade Fast Track

Miguel Fredes, staff attorney, FIMA, CHILE Since Chile has joined many free trade agreements, it has expanded exports of primary resources such as timber products. This has dramatically increased the pressure on its biodiversity, increased levels of pollutants in the environment, and resulted in massive overuse of natural resources.

Second Meeting of Transatlantic Environment Dialogue (TAED)

Washington, D.C. | October 12-15, 1999 Statement of the Trade & Environment Working Group

WTO Urged to Protect Environment

Reuters | October 5, 1999 International action to protect the global environment is under threat from the drive toward trade liberalization in the World Trade Organization (WTO), a leading environmental group warned Monday.