By Patricia Wilson
EVERETT, Wash. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush set aside "posturing and partisanship" on Wednesday, urging colleagues and Democrats in Congress to pass President Clinton's landmark trade pact with China.
BEIJING (AP) - Having secured an agreement with Latvia, negotiators seeking to bring China into the World Trade Organization before year's end continued working Wednesday on securing the big prize: a deal with the European Union.
OTTAWA, May 16 (AFP) - Canada announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with Australia to end a 25-year-old Australian ban on the imports of Canadian fresh, chilled and frozen salmon.
By Paul Eckert
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese and European Union negotiators got down on Tuesday to the fine print of a potential deal that would move Beijing to the brink of WTO membership.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A worldwide surplus of grain and soybeans is likely to push prices for many commodities down again this year, given the big crops that farmers are planting this spring, the Agriculture Department said today.
By Paul Eckert
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the European Union ended their first day of trade talks Monday with the EU saying it needed more time to hammer out a deal that would help pave the way for China's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The absence of a deal with the EU is the biggest remaining obstacle to China's membership.
By Adrian Croft
BRUSSELS, May 14 (Reuters) - European Union trade chief Pascal Lamy arrives in China on Monday hoping to negotiate a market-opening agreement that would remove the biggest remaining obstacle to China joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
