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Momentum Toward New WTO Round Emerges From EU, ASEAN Meetings

By Rafael D. Frankel BNA HANOI, Vietnam--Ministers from the European Union and Association of Southeast Asian Nation wrapped up their two-day consultations here Sept. 12 upbeat on the prospects for launching a new round of the World Trade Organization.

WTO Delays U.S. Trade Policy Review Following N.Y., Washington Terrorist Attacks

BNA September 13, 2001 GENEVA--The World Trade Organization canceled a two-day review of U.S. trade policy following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The WTO said that as a result of events in the United States, the trade policy review meeting scheduled for Sept. 12 and 14 had been postponed until further notice.

Who Could Have Done It? A Very Short List

By Faye Bowers and Scott Peterson | The Christian Science Monitor BOSTON AND MOSCOW - Only one man, say counterterrorism experts, had the motive - and capability - to carry out terrorist attacks of this magnitude: Osama bin Laden.

Officals Say No Action Yet on WTO Qatar Meeting

Reuters | September 12, 2001 | By Robert Evans GENEVA - Trade officials said on Wednesday work was continuing to prepare the World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting in Qatar in November despite the terror attacks in the United States.

A Big Hole In NAFTA

The Ottawa Citizen | By Chantal Blouin | September 11, 2001

Third-World Imports Besiege Mexico Farmers

Los Angeles Times | September 10, 2001 Trade: Ill-prepared for competition, they are fighting to survive a deluge of cheap produce. BY: CHRIS KRAUL, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Thomas Meets with Three Democrats on TPA Deal; Meeting Called Constructive

International Trade Daily | September 10, 2001 | By Rossella Brevetti A meeting among House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and several pro-trade Democrats on developing a compromise trade promotion authority proposal was "very constructive," a Democratic aide told BNA Sept. 7, adding that additional sessions are likely soon.

September In Washington, D.C.

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

1.2 Million Sacks of Imported Rice, A Spice of WTO""s Appetite for Destruction - KMP

NEWS RELEASE | September 7, 2001 | RAFAEL MARIANO, KMP Chairperson

Inexplicable Obsession With Securing A Trade ""Round""

By SOPHIA MURPHY Sir, Your insistence on the need for a trade round, as indeed is the obsession of so many of our trade officials, is puzzling ("The case for a trade round", August 2). What in the word "round" makes it so essential to the health of the multilateral trade system?