Water

House Farm Bill Likely to Keep Subsidies Controversial to EU

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 21

Good Foundation Vital for China""s WTO Entry, Not Timing: Supachai

Agence France Presse BEIJING, May 24 - The timing of China's entry to the WTO is less important than ensuring that the foundations for its adherence are well-laid, the next World Trade Organisation (WTO) director general said Friday.

OECD Adopts New Key Environmental Indicators

PARIS--Environment ministers from the world's industrialized countries May 16 adopted a series of "key environmental indicators" to allow for more consistent international comparison of the main environmental problems facing the planet.

WTO Briefings For Non-Governmental Organizations

The WTO Secretariat is organizing briefings for NGOs on the outcome of meetings of interest to them. The schedule below gives an overview of the briefings that will be held in May and June 2001.

Children On Pilgrimage For Right To Education

By: South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude New Delhi, India -- Being on the streets is nothing new to Babloo, but this time the 10-year-old former child labourer is on a 'yatra' or pilgrimage to secure for himself and 72 million other Indian children the right to an education.

Costa Rica Pressured To Improve Labor Rights By ICFTU

Brussels -- Intimidation in the private sector to stop workers organising, growing wage inequalities and concern over child labour in the agricultural sector. These findings are part of a new report released by the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU).

BSE, Foot-and-Mouth Outbreaks Raise Trade Concerns

Food Chemical News | May 21, 2001 | Volume 43, Issue 14 | Mark Thornton The leader of Australia's National Farmers Federation said last week the group will turn to the World Trade Organization if the European Union uses the threat of exotic diseases as an excuse to block trade.

FAO Proposes Food Safety Fund for Least Developed Countries

Food Chemical News | Volume 43, Number 14 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization last week proposed setting up a $98 million fund to help the world's least developed countries improve the safety and quality of their food products.

Farm Groups, Firms Seek to Include Trade Laws in Negotiations

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 More than twenty agriculture groups and agribusiness firms have called on President Bush to leave U.S. trade remedy laws on the table for upcoming multilateral and regional negotiations in an effort to counteract a Senate message earlier this month that U.S. trade laws should not be bargaining chits in trade deals.

U.S. Slams WTO Lamb Ruling over Appellate Body Mandate

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The U.S. this week denounced the World Trade Organization Appellate Body for exceeding its mandate in a ruling against a U.S. safeguard on lamb meat imports that the U.S. said created new obligations for invoking section 201. The Appellate Body said that WTO members must prove that unforeseen developments necessitate the imposition of a safeguard.