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U.S. Slams WTO Lamb Ruling over Appellate Body Mandate

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The U.S. this week denounced the World Trade Organization Appellate Body for exceeding its mandate in a ruling against a U.S. safeguard on lamb meat imports that the U.S. said created new obligations for invoking section 201. The Appellate Body said that WTO members must prove that unforeseen developments necessitate the imposition of a safeguard.

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.

Consumer Demand Boosts Trade Deficit

Reuters | By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit registered its largest month-to-month gain in at least nine years in March, powered by record demand for imported consumer goods, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday.

Fischler: U.S. Food Aid is Dumping Commodities

Ed Maixner, Farm Progress Washington Bureau The United States has been leading the world in food aid to the world's hungry nations but Franz Fischler, the European Union's agriculture commissioner, says the U.S. also dumps farm commodities "under the pretext of food aid."

EU to Target U.S. Farm Loans in WTO Agriculture Talks

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The European Commission plans to propose next week that the World Trade Organization impose the same reduction commitments on U.S. farm supports like the $8.1 billion U.S. marketing loan and deficiency payment program that trading partners' agriculture negotiators want to place on the European Union's export subsidies, informed sources said.
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