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Farm Group Wants Agriculture Subsidy Doubled

By Charles Abbott ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Congress should plan on spending $18 billion a year on farm supports -- double the amount now allotted -- to shore up a sector sapped by brutally low grain prices, the head of the largest U.S. farm group said on Sunday.

Tempers Flare in Potato Dispute

The Boston Globe Canada sees trade barrier in US move to contain fungus outbreak By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff MONTREAL - A few warts on a few potatoes in a small corner of a single field on Prince Edward Island are spawning an ugly trade row between Canada and the United States.

Agriculture to Get Industry Status: Plan Being Prepared for Corporate Farming

Dawn, Karachi / By Rauf Klasra ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: An incentive package to attract local and foreign investment in corporate agriculture farming is being prepared, which envisages giving farming the status of industry, a five-year tax holiday, exclusion of big landholdings from future land reforms and no tax at district level.

Nod for WTO Agriculture Agreement

The Hindu / By Sushma Ramachandran

A Dissenting Voice in Labor""s Ranks: Taking Aim at the World Trade Organization

Human Rights for Workers / Bulletin No. V-15 / http://www.senser.com / Robert A. Senser, editor, [email protected].

Global Farm Subsidies: Indian Farmer is the Loser

Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India / By Devinder Sharma

Canada, U.S. in Trade Dispute

Associated Press | By TOM COHEN, Associated Press Writer TORONTO (AP) - Canada and the United States are caught in a trade dispute that's no small potatoes for either side: a U.S. ban on spuds from Prince Edward Island is prompting threats of retaliation.

Trade Winds Gathering Force

When they look back at us with the knowledge that only the future can bring, tomorrow's generations may well mark 2001 as the year of a new beginning--or the year of an ignominious ending--for a remarkably beneficial time in which world trade raised many boats.

Is WTO in Danger?

by Stephen H. Dunphy, Seattle Times business columnist / The Seattle Times WTO MEMBER NATIONS increasingly are negotiating trade deals outside the world organization, which calls into question the WTO's future.

U.S. Trade, Not WTO, the Top Priority

The Edmonton Journal Pierre Pettigrew set to fight subsidies in agricultural dispute James Baxter, Southam Newspapers; Southam News Hopes for a new round of WTO negotiations will have to take a back seat next year to the meat-and-potatoes issues that dominate Canada's billion-dollar-a-day trade with the United States, Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew says.