Agence France Presse / Philippe Debeusscher
SAN JOSE, California, April 3 (AFP) - Two hundred CEOs from Silicon Valley's leading technology companies support permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China, US President Bill Clinton announced Monday.
No Demand Shows Buyers Do Not Want Genetically Modified Crops
NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Contact: Gary Goldberg, 918-488-1829, David Senter, 202-835-0330, [email protected]
By Adam Entous
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States threatened on Tuesday to file World Trade Organization (WTO) complaints against Mexico and South Africa for alleged discrimination against U.S. telecommunications companies.
RESEARCHER USED PLANT GROWN IN CANADA AND BANNED FOR EXPORT TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Apr. 1 2000 / Ottawa Citizen / Tom Spears
John Heritage, a microbiologist from the University of Leeds, was cited as finding that genes engineered in some North American corn to make the crop resist insect pests stay in the corn plant and don't spread into other organisms.
By Matthew Vita and William Booth / Washington Post Staff Writers
As House Republican leaders moved toward setting a May vote on granting China permanent normal trade privileges, President Clinton yesterday told a California audience that the trade deal would provide a huge boost to the American economy and give up "zip, zilch, nada, zero" to the Chinese in return.
Apr. 1 2000 / Ottawa Citizen/CP
An Environics poll released Friday was cited as saying that most Canadians say they would prefer to buy non-genetically modified foods, even if they were slightly more expensive.
By John Zarocostas
GENEVA, April 4, (UPI) - Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce, Osama Faquih, said today in Geneva the Kingdom's six-year bid to join the World Trade Organization has picked up momentum.
March 31, 2000 / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
For years farmers and small-town business owners have speculated about the economic impact of large hog operations on their communities, but a study released Thursday attempts to clear up some of the myths.
