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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.

WTO Debate In Davos

AP Worldstream ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS DAVOS, Switzerland -- The global economy has grown strong but so has debate over who has benefited and who has lost in the boom, world corporate and government leaders heard at an annual summit Friday.

U.S. Lamb Tariffs Hypocritical, Australians Say

01/16/2000 / By Gregg Jones / The Dallas Morning News COWRA, Australia -- Ian Donges is an amiable Aussie. But if you want to see the brawny rancher smolder, ask him about the steep tariffs the Clinton administration slapped on Australian and New Zealand lamb imports in July.

Challenges of Feeding the World

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2000 Farm output expands slowly even as population growth and changing diets boost demand. Laurent Belsie ([email protected]) / Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor ST. LOUIS -- Wanted: the next "green revolution."
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