World Trade Organization

WTO Agreement Appears Near -- Agenda for New Global Talks at Stake

Washington Post | November 13, 2001 | By Paul Blustein, Washington Post Staff Writer DOHA, Qatar -- Officials attending a World Trade Organization meeting here, negotiating feverishly into the early morning, appeared to be nearing an agreement to launch a new round of global trade talks.

WTO Nears Broad Generic-Drug Accord; U.S. May Renegotiate Antidumping Rules

Wall Street Journal | November 13, 2001 | By GEOFF WINESTOCK and HELENE COOPER, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

France Threatens to Bolt WTO Talks

Associated Press | November 13, 2001 DOHA, Qatar -- France threatened Tuesday to walk away from negotiations to launch global trade talks over the explosive issue of farm export subsidies, despite two years of work by the World Trade Organization to recover from Seattle's embarrassing failure.

Ag Export Credits Become Bargaining Tool at Trade Talks

Star Tribune (Mpls-St. Paul) | November 13, 2001 The United States is willing to eliminate export credits for its farmers, leaving the European Union (EU) isolated in its insistence on continuing such subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Monday during world trade talks in Doha, Qatar.

Revised Ministerial Draft Declaration: Still Harmful to Interests of Developing Countries

Focus on the Global South | November 13, 2001 | Aileen Kwa and Walden Bello The revised draft ministerial declaration issued in the afternoon of Nov. 13 continues to highly detrimental to the interests of developing countries.

WTO Envoys Agree to Ease Access to Key Drugs

Public Health Outweighs Patents As Deal Paves Way for Broad Trade Talks Wall Street Journal | November 13, 2001 | By Geoff Winestock and Helene Cooper

Developed World Accused of Bully-boy Tactics at WTO

By: Charlotte Denny | The Guardian (London) Vistors to the Greenpeace vessel - apart from a police diver - included EU envoy Pascal Lamy, who called for rules separating trade deals and the environment Photograph: Patrick Baz/EPA Some of the world's poorest nations have complained that they are being browbeaten by developed nations into accepting sweeping free trade talks.

Every Word under the Microscope as WTO Negotiators Seek Deal

By: NAOMI KOPPEL | Associated Press DOHA, Qatar -- Trade ministers were predicting little or no sleep over the next two days as they battled over single words Monday in their attempts to agree on new trade liberalization talks.