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Bush Seeks Trade Powers

CNN Financial Network President to ask Congress to give him 'fast track' negotiating authority WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush planned Monday to outline a set of principles for free trade as he renewed a quest to persuade Congress to give him trade negotiating authority.

Farmers Brace For Possible Problems With GM Grain Sales

Bfy Anthony Shadid The Boston Globe May 03, 2001

Trade Union to Destroy Pepsi Stocks

The Asian Age/The Bangalore Age / By Our Correspondent Bangalore, May 1 -- The Karnataka Trade Union Centre will launch a campaign against Pepsi and Coca Cola as the first step towards boycott of imported goods allowed under the WTO agreement, KTUC president G.R. Shiva Shankar said.

On the Day of the WTO General Council Meeting on Preparations for Qatar Global Unions Tell WTO Nothing Learned from Failure in Seattle

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)

WTO Lamb Decision Puts Pressure on Bush - Farmers

Wellington, May 2 / NZPA

Industrialized Nations Pressure Bush to Initiate Global Trade Talks

Knight Ridder/Tribune / Carter Dougherty, The Washington Times Major business groups and key U.S. allies are pushing President Bush to set his sights on a higher goal than a deal made last month to bring free trade to the Western Hemisphere -- a new round of global trade talks.

U.S. Export Ag Credits

Inside Washington / By SALLY SCHUFF, Feedstuffs Washington Editor WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. export credit guarantee programs are on the front burner, mostly because other countries hate them.

Agriculture Negotiations: Excluded Developing Countries Unhappy over Non-Transparent Stocktaking Process

By Aileen Kwa / Focus on the Global South, Geneva The first phase of agricultural negotiations which had lasted a year concluded at the end of March with the Agriculture Special Session on March 22-23. This was followed immediately by a stocktaking session which was intended to set the work programme for the second phase of agriculture negotiations.

Seattle, Prague, Quebec: The End of Ethical Protest

Seattle Times / Op/Ed / Robert Sibley, Guest Columnist OTTAWA - Quebec City, one of North America's oldest cities, was once known as the Gibraltar of America. Established in 1608, it was the gateway to the Great Lakes and the heart of North America; whoever controlled the city pretty much controlled the continent.

D.C. Police Preparing for IMF Protests

Smaller Crowd Expected At Sunday Demonstration Washington Post / By Arthur Santana, Washington Post Staff Writer Hundreds of D.C. police officers have been summoned to surprise training drills this week to prepare for a demonstration Sunday against global capitalism, but organizers say that there may be more police than protesters and that officials are overreacting.