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Europe, Central Asia Countries Pledge "Universal Access"To HIV/AIDS Treatment By 2005

AIDS Vaccine Week | March 22, 2004 Citing a health crisis "of unprecedented proportions," 55 European and Central Asian nations vowed to halt the fast-spreading virus that causes AIDS, agreeing on an ambitious agenda of providing increased and improved treatment and prevention.

EU Ready To Discuss Elimination Of Agricultural Export Subsdies: Fischler

Agence France Presse | March 22, 2004 The European Union is prepared to discuss the elimination of agricultural export subsidies on all products, European Union agriculture minister Franz Fischler said here Monday. Fischler recalled that the EU last year asked developing countries to provide a list of specific products on which they wanted to see the subsidies scrapped.

US Labor Union To File Landmark Trade Complaint Against China

AFX.COM | March 16, 2004

U.S. Files WTO Complaint Vs Mexico Over Drink Sweetener

AFX European Focus | March 16, 2004

US POLICY SUCCESSES IN ASIA

But wait. On the far side of the world there are some things that the Bush administration may be getting right.

U.S. Plans Steps To Open Markets In China, India

The Washington Post | By Paul Blustein | March 10, 2004 U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick, said yesterday that the United States soon may file its first global trade case against China and plans to aggressively pursue open markets in India as well. China and India are two of the countries at the center of the controversy over job losses in the United States.

Agreement Will Force U.S. Exporters To Label GE Foods

Aberdeen American News (South Dakota) | March 5, 2004 Eighty-seven countries reached an historic agreement here today that takes concrete steps towards establishing new, internationally recognized rights to protect public health, sustainable agricultural production and the environment from genetic contamination caused by international trade in genetically engineered (GE) organisms.

How Do You Solve The Problem That Is WTO?

BusinessWorld | By Benjamin G. Defensor | March 3, 2004 After the collapse of the World Trade Organization's Fifth Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico because of irreconcilable differences between their needs and problems, should there be a separate organization each for the developed and developing world?

Victory Over US Claimed As Rules Agreed On GM Exports

Agence France Presse | By M. JEGATHESAN | February 27, 2004 Environmentalists claimed victory over the United States Friday as more than 100 countries agreed to international rules covering the export of genetically-modified crops and food.

UN New Rules On Clear Labelling Of GM Crop Exports Agreed; US ""Disappointed""

AFX - Asia | February 27, 2004 KUALA LUMPUR -- More than 100 signatories to the UN's Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety have agreed to abide by international rules covering the export of genetically-modified crops and food.