World Trade Organization

Bove Continues WTO Fight in Qatar

Associated Press | November 12, 2001 | TAREK AL-ISSAWI; Associated Press Writer DOHA, Qatar - Jailed in France and tear gassed in Seattle, French farm activist Jose Bove had to raise a ruckus again to get to the World Trade Organization meeting in Qatar - only to end up feeling sidelined.

WTO Talks Enter Final Stage with Greenpeace Opposing Development Round

Canada NewsWire | November 12, 2001 DOHA, QATAR - As World Trade Organization talks enter the final phase in Doha, they remain gridlocked over a number of important issues. Canada is chairing one of the committees that is the most divisive: investment issues.

It""s Gandhi vs Moore, say angry NGOs, Report from Financial Express

by Rohit Bansal

Third Day of WTO Meeting Shows Advance on Agriculture, Lags on Other Problems

Inside U.S. Trade | November 12, 2001

Falling Down in Qatar?

AlterNet | Tamara Straus | November 12, 2001 The latest World Trade Organization meeting in Doha, Qatar resembles previous WTO meetings about as much as Hollywood musicals resemble film noir. They might live in the same universe of style, but they are galaxies apart in substance.

WTO Moving Toward Anti-Dumping - a Move Fiercely Opposed by Many in US Congress

Reuters | November 12, 2001 DOHA - World Trade Organisation members are edging towards formal negotiations on anti-dumping rules, a move fiercely opposed by many in the U.S. Congress, a senior Japanese official said on Monday.

Protest Group Softens Tone at WTO Talks

Washington Post | November 12, 2001 | By Paul Blustein

US Says Farm Export Credits "On the Table" at WTO

Wall Street Journal | Dow Jones Newswires | November 12, 2001 DOHA, Qatar (AP)--The U.S. is willing to put the payments it makes to U.S. farmers "on the table" at any new global trade talks, leaving the European Union isolated in its insistence on keeping farm subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Monday.

EU Isolated on Agriculture as Japan Signals Support for Draft

Inside US Trade | November 12, 2001 DOHA--The European Union is increasingly isolated in its demand that an existing draft declaration on future negotiations in the World Trade Organization be changed with respect to agriculture.

USTR Breifing on Doha November 12, 2001

Chief briefer was Kathy Novelli.