World Trade Organization

WTO, UNEP Call for Improved Cooperation, Establishment of ""Early Warning Mechanism""

GENEVA--The heads of the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Environment Program have issued a joint call for improved cooperation between the two bodies, including the establishment of an "early warning mechanism" to head off disputes involving conflicting obligations under multilateral trade and environment agreements.

China WTO Membership Closer After Talks Breakthrough

By Moyette Gibbons Geneva, Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- China has moved closer to joiningthe World Trade Organization after a ``breakthrough'' in talks on severaldisputed issues, a WTO spokesman said.

APEC to Discuss Globalization

By DIRK BEVERIDGE, AP Business Writer HONG KONG (AP) -- Leaders from Asia and the Pacific rim have plenty of worries at a trade summit this week -- high oil prices, political and currency troubles, and opposition to globalization. But unlike recent meetings, there aren't likely to be crowds of activists tearing up the streets over the issues being debated.

Progress in China Talks, to Meet Again in December

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Globalization Requires Elimination of Trade Barriers, Says Yeutter

By MICHAEL HOWIE / Feedstuffs Staff Editor PALM SPRINGS, CAL. -- Trade impediments make "no economic sense" in the world we live in today, and "we ought to get them behind us," said Clayton Yeutter in a presentation to the National Renderers Assn. and World Renderers Congress two weeks ago.

Don""t Let the WTO Get Hold of Our Water!

By Ruth Caplan Although activists and developing countries stopped the Millennium Round of negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, negotiations on services and agriculture are going on right now.

Kashmir to Kanyakumari: Bullock Cart Rally Plan Against Farm Imports

DECCAN HERALD BANGALORE, Nov 4 (DHNS) -- The restructured National Farmers Coordination Committee has decided to take out a bullock cart rally from Kashmir to Kanyakumari starting from January second week as a protest against the import of agricultural produce.

Next U.S. President to Inherit Trade Policy Problems

Reuters / Adam Entous and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The next U.S. president will face a daunting number of trade policy problems -- from ensuring that China meets its market-opening obligations to heading off a trade war with Europe.

Food-Processing Policy: Processing American Farm Produce

From: Hindu Business Line, New Delhi/Chennai/Bangalore/Hyderabad / By Devinder Sharma As if the damage from the national agricultural policy is not enough, the government now plans to come out with another national policy -- for the food processing industry. And the next in the trilogy would obviously be a national policy for the biotechnology industry.

Patching Up Morale at the World Trade Organization

New York Times / By ELIZABETH OLSON GENEVA, Oct. 30 - Nearly a year after violent demonstrations in Seattle disrupted the World Trade Organization's meeting of ministers and shredded its image, the group's leader, Mike Moore, is still trying to pick up the pieces.