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WTO Delays U.S. Trade Policy Review Following N.Y., Washington Terrorist Attacks

BNA September 13, 2001 GENEVA--The World Trade Organization canceled a two-day review of U.S. trade policy following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The WTO said that as a result of events in the United States, the trade policy review meeting scheduled for Sept. 12 and 14 had been postponed until further notice.

Who Could Have Done It? A Very Short List

By Faye Bowers and Scott Peterson | The Christian Science Monitor BOSTON AND MOSCOW - Only one man, say counterterrorism experts, had the motive - and capability - to carry out terrorist attacks of this magnitude: Osama bin Laden.

Officals Say No Action Yet on WTO Qatar Meeting

Reuters | September 12, 2001 | By Robert Evans GENEVA - Trade officials said on Wednesday work was continuing to prepare the World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting in Qatar in November despite the terror attacks in the United States.

A Big Hole In NAFTA

The Ottawa Citizen | By Chantal Blouin | September 11, 2001

Third-World Imports Besiege Mexico Farmers

Los Angeles Times | September 10, 2001 Trade: Ill-prepared for competition, they are fighting to survive a deluge of cheap produce. BY: CHRIS KRAUL, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Thomas Meets with Three Democrats on TPA Deal; Meeting Called Constructive

International Trade Daily | September 10, 2001 | By Rossella Brevetti A meeting among House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and several pro-trade Democrats on developing a compromise trade promotion authority proposal was "very constructive," a Democratic aide told BNA Sept. 7, adding that additional sessions are likely soon.

September In Washington, D.C.

By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

1.2 Million Sacks of Imported Rice, A Spice of WTO""s Appetite for Destruction - KMP

NEWS RELEASE | September 7, 2001 | RAFAEL MARIANO, KMP Chairperson

Inexplicable Obsession With Securing A Trade ""Round""

By SOPHIA MURPHY Sir, Your insistence on the need for a trade round, as indeed is the obsession of so many of our trade officials, is puzzling ("The case for a trade round", August 2). What in the word "round" makes it so essential to the health of the multilateral trade system?

Starlink ghost seen chasing Asia away from US corn

By Nao Nakanishi SINGAPORE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Gene-spliced Starlink corn, the subject of a massive food recall last year, continuesto haunt some Asian consumers who have little intention to switch back to U.S. maize any time soon, industry officials say.