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EU Business Leader Calls for Limited WTO Round

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The European Union View on Agriculture

United Press International | By ANNA K. HUTCHINSON, Special to UPI Franz Fishler, Austrian-born EU agriculture commissioner, is on a five-day visit to the United States to further negotiations between the EU and United States on agriculture as part of the current round of talks in respect of a further World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalization round.

Consumer Demand Boosts Trade Deficit

Reuters | By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit registered its largest month-to-month gain in at least nine years in March, powered by record demand for imported consumer goods, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday.

Fischler: U.S. Food Aid is Dumping Commodities

Ed Maixner, Farm Progress Washington Bureau The United States has been leading the world in food aid to the world's hungry nations but Franz Fischler, the European Union's agriculture commissioner, says the U.S. also dumps farm commodities "under the pretext of food aid."

U.S. Support for New Round Contrasts with Hardline on LDCs

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20

Allgeier Rules Out Expansion of NAFTA AD, CVD Dispute Panels

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20

EU to Target U.S. Farm Loans in WTO Agriculture Talks

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The European Commission plans to propose next week that the World Trade Organization impose the same reduction commitments on U.S. farm supports like the $8.1 billion U.S. marketing loan and deficiency payment program that trading partners' agriculture negotiators want to place on the European Union's export subsidies, informed sources said.

Bush Sends Congress Outline for Trade Legislation

By Doug Palmer May 10, 2001 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Thursday sketched out its ideas for ending a seven-year stalemate in Congress over new trade negotiating authority, but failed to win over labor and environmental groups.

China to Liberalize Grain Trade After WTO: Official

AFX News Limited BEIJING (AFX-ASIA) - China is irreversibly moving towards a freer farm produce market, and will have to further adapt its agricultural polices after it joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a senior agriculture official said yesterday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

The Green Revolution Yields To The Bottom Line

By ANDREW POLLACK New York Times May 15, 2001 Dr. William Folk, a professor at the University of Missouri, wants to genetically engineer soybeans to improve their nutritional value. But he faces more than scientific hurdles. He and Monsanto never agreed on how he might use a patented technique for inserting genes into the beans.