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By James Barnett, BridgeNews CHICAGO, July 12 -- Analysts at a Chicago Board of Trade press briefing said that increased world wheat production and larger domestic ending stocks estimates by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Wednesday's supply/demand reports should pressure wheat prices.

GENEVA--The United States presented members of the World Trade Organization July 14 with a broad-brush proposal setting out its objectives for WTO's recently-launched negotiations on services trade as well as a possible framework for carrying out the talks.

The Des Moines Register / By George Anthan WASHINGTON -- Federal farm subsidies radiate in a vicious circle as tax money spent to prop up farmers leads to overproduction, lower crop prices and the need for even more taxpayer payments, according to a study by Sparks Companies Inc. of Memphis, Tenn. The study said that large farmers benefit disproportionately from the bailouts.

NEW DELHI--India's Commerce Minister Murasoli Maran has called for redesigning and expanding the mandate of the World Health Organization to eliminate inequities he says are the result of the World Trade Organization's intellectual property rights regime.

Press Release from the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture Every country has a sovereign right to pursue non-trade objectives such as strengthening the socio-economic viability and development of rural areas, food security and environmental protection. These objectives cannot be achieved by market forces alone.

BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday its current moratorium on new genetically modified (GM) crops was illegal and proposed kick-starting its stalled approval process.

New York Times / July 11, 2000 / By CAROL KAESUK YOON Against a backdrop of increasing concern over the safety of genetically modified crops, the National Academy of Sciences took the unusual step today of joining with six foreign academies of science to urge the increased development and use of biotechnology crops to solve problems of hunger and poverty in developing nations.

The Commission today agreed to propose the elimination of all remaining restrictions on imports of 62 categories of textiles and clothing products from other countries belonging to the World Trade Organisation (WTO).