Agriculture

EU Defends Precautionary Principle

July 24, 2001

WTO Agriculture Negotiations Plow through Export Subsidies

excerpt from BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest | Vol. 5, Number 28 | 24 July, 2001

Concern Proposed US Farm Bill Will Affect WTO Talks

Farmers Guardian | July 20, 2001 CONCERN is growing in Brussels that the proposed new US Farm Bill could cause severe ramifications at November's World Trade Organisation agricultural talks in Doha, Qatar. The new Bill, which is progressing through Congress, aims to increase agricultural aid when prices are low, which is likely to encourage additional production.

U.S. Apple Group Seeks Higher Duties On Chinese Apple Concentrate

The Food Institute Report | July 9, 2001 In an effort to increase antidumping duties on imported apple juice concentrate from the People's Republic of China, the U.S. apple industry has formally requested the Commerce Department conduct an administrative review of the antidumping duties announced last May, [See FOOD INSTITUTE REPORT, May 22, 2000, page 9, for earlier story].

Jose Bove: On the Front Line of a New World War

Manchester Guardian Weekly | July 4, 2001 | By Jose Bove Jose Bove is a spokesperson for Confederation Paysanne, a French farmers' trade union HIGHLIGHT: The neoliberal creed of globalisation is based on blatant untruths, writes Jose Bove

WHO: Global Food Safety Rules Needed

Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The world needs new food safety rules because increased global food trade means health problems can spread rapidly from country to country, the head of the U.N. health agency said Monday.

Farm Groups Announce Stance On Fast Track

Farm groups announce stance on fast track authority

US House Farm Leader Pulls Support for Trade Bill

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee said on Friday he would no longer co-sponsor the Trade Promotion Authority desperately sought by President Bush after the administration determined more than $10 billion in farm subsidies had distorted trade.

Bush Asks Farmers For Help With Fast Track

By Reuters

Bush Argues for Food Exports

New York Times | By the ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gearing up for a fight with Congress, President Bush argued Monday that the United States will trail the rest of the world in food exports unless he gets enhanced trade negotiating authority. "I want America to feed the world," he said.