Environment

Second Draft WTO Declaration Confirms Start Of Antidumping Talks

Japan Economic Newswire

Metalclad

City News Service of Los Angeles | October 19, 2001 A Newport Beach firm that failed to settle a five- year, $15.6 million dispute with Mexico under the free trade treaty will argue the case in a Canadian court in April, an executive said today. Anthony C.

EU Environmental Pitch Fails to Garner New Support in WTO

Inside US Trade | October 12, 2001 Two confidential option papers prepared by the European Union show that the Commission is trying to insert environmental issues back into the World Trade Organization's negotiating agenda by offering to delay the start of actual negotiations and by offering to include issues relevant to developing countries, according to the copies reprinted below.

US Seen Softening Stance On Including Labor, Environment Standards In WTO Rules

By: Romulo T. Luib BusinessWorld Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will see a softened US stance on labor and environment standards proposed for inclusion in the trade rules once the body meets to launch a new round of talks later in the year.

Quad Works to Break Two Deadlocks in Ministerial Preparations

Inside US Trade | September 14, 2001

Strange Bedfellows

Boston (MA) Globe | September 4, 2001 | Beth Daley, bdaley@globe.com The rabble-rousers of the environmental movement are back. Four years ago, Greenpeace USA was on the brink of ruin, with membership dropping so fast that the group had to lay off three-quarters of its staff. And the group all but disappeared from the media spotlight.

Critics Decry Bush Stand on Treaties

USA TODAY | By Bill Nichols | 07/26/2001 WASHINGTON - White House critics increasingly wonder: Will President Bush find an international treaty he likes? In just the past week, his administration:

House Democrats Seek to Promote Conservation in Farm Bill

New York Times | JULY 25, 2001 | By ELIZABETH BECKER WASHINGTON, July 24 - House Democrats, joined by moderate Republicans, said today that they would offer amendments to alter the new farm bill this week, seeking to double spending for conservation and to trim direct crop subsidies.

Laws Skirted Using NAFTA

Chicago Tribune | By R.C. Longworth, Tribune staff reporter An obscure clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement is being used by corporations and investors to override local labor and environmental laws, bypassing established court systems in the process.