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US, EU to Draft joint WTO Proposal on Stalled Farm Talks

Agence France Presse | July 30, 2003 The United States and European Union will seek to draft a joint proposal on farm trade as part of the effort to revamp global trading rules, participants in talks here said Wednesday.

WTO Farm Trade Talks Show Signs of Life

Reuters | By Doug Palmer | July 29, 2003 With time running short, trade ministers offered a glimmer of hope on Tuesday in the second day of talks aimed at cutting developed country farm subsidies and making it easier for the world's farmers to export their products.

Trade Ministers to Tackle Farm Issues in Montreal

Rueters | By Gilbert Le Gras | July 28, 2003 Top trade officials from the United States, European Union and two dozen other countries launched new efforts to kick start stalled world trade talks on Monday, searching for common ground on farm subsidies and tariff reforms.

Denmark Comes Into the Open

Danish Association for International Co-operation | July 22, 2003

Europe Adopts Hardline Stance on CAP Cuts

The Guardian | By Charlotte Denny | July 21, 2003 The European Union will today raise the stakes in vital global trade talks when it adopts a hardline negotiating stance for September's World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

Fixing Subsidies Won""t End Woes of the Poor

The Vancouver Sun | By Ben Bradshaw | July 21, 2003 A troubling detail accompanying the release of the UN Human Development Report for 2003 makes it clear why farm subsidies are hard to defend: Every European cow gets a $3-a-day subsidy whereas 40 per cent of Africans live on less than $1 a day.

WTO Bids to Move Stalled Trade Talks Forward

Agence France Presse | July 18, 2003 The World Trade Organisation on Friday published an initial draft of key decisions that ministers will need to make at an upcoming meeting in Mexico to revive stalled global trade talks.

A New Agricultural Policy for the United States

By Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade policy, and Loni Kemp with the Minnesota Project.  This report was produced for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Research Workshop on Biodiversity and Sustainability on November 2002.

U.S. Trade Deficit Climbs $41.84B in May

Associated Press | July 11, 2003 WASHINGTON - America's trade deficit, on track to set an all-time high this year, edged up slightly to $41.84 billion in May as imports of foreign cars, televisions and business equipment all showed big gains.

Left Behind: Globalization is Pushing Coffee Prices to Historic Lows

The Houston Chronicle | By John Otis | July 13, 2003 Bibiano Mendoza has spent much of his life gingerly plucking crimson coffee cherries by hand at their peak moment of ripeness. Now, instead of pondering retirement, the sunburned, 60-year-old grandfather frets about where he'll get his next meal.

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