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GOP Leaders Advance Farm Aid Package

09/30/99 / USA Today WASHINGTON (AP) -- Showering favors on key lawmakers' states, congressional leaders on Thursday ended the impasse on a $8.7 billion farm-relief package without yielding to producers' demands that they ease the Cuban trade embargo.

U.S. to Draft Proposal for Faster GM Crop Approvals

Reuters | September 30, 1999 | Julie Vorman WASHINGTON - Peter Scher, special U.S. ambassador for agricultural trade, was cited as saying today that U.S. trade negotiators are working with other countries to draft a proposal that would force the European Union to speed up its approval procedures for imports of genetically modified (GM) crops.

New WTO Chief Pledges All Efforts for Poor States

Yahoo! Headlines World | September 1, 1999 | By Robert Evans GENEVA - Mike Moore, taking over as new head of the World Trade Organisation, pledged on Wednesday that he would devote "all efforts" to help poor countries to benefit from freer global trade. He also called on the richer powers to play their part by throwing open their markets to goods from poorer regions.

French President Concerned over EU-US Trade Dispute

International news | August 30, 1999 PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac on Monday expressed concern in a meeting with the co-presidents of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue over an escalating trade dispute between the EU and the United States.

New Trade Threat for U.S. Farmers

New York Times | August 29, 1999 | By MELODY PETERSEN WASHINGTON - American farmers paid premium prices this spring to sow many of their fields with genetically engineered corn and soybeans, but now as the fall harvest nears, more of the international buyers they depend upon are saying they do not want those crops.
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