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Response from NGOs on Water Classification in GATS

RESPONSE ON WATER CLASSIFICATION IN "COMMUNICATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THEIR MEMBER STATES GATS 2000: Environmental Services" S/CSS/W/38 March 6, 2001 Submitted by Alliance for Democracy Center for International Environmental Law, Friends of the Earth, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Public Citizen Submitted to Mr.

A Voice for the WTO""s Have-Nots

BusinessWeek Online / Interview by Mark L. Clifford in Hong Kong

A Clue to a Missed NAFTA Deadline

Associated Press / By MEGAN K. STACK, Associated Press Writer BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - With hundreds of thousands of big rigs rumbling over the Rio Grande every year, state inspectors have devised a low-tech way to determine which Mexican trucks to stop.

Free Trade vs. Europe

The Washington Times / Doug Bandow The United States reigns supreme around the world. Yet potential adversaries lurk in the background, including an economically protectionist and politically unified Europe centered in Brussels. The European Union's (EU) future direction is obviously uncertain. But the French, in particular, have long bridled at American dominance.

U.S. Prepared to Pursue Aggressive Trade Agenda

Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is prepared to pursue a broad and aggressive U.S. trade agenda, including talks on bilateral and regional free trade agreements as well as new global talks under the World Trade Organization, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday.

Anti-Globalisation Activist Blames Farming Methods for Foot-and-Mouth

Agence France Presse PARIS, March 4 (AFP) - French anti-globalisation activist Jose Bove on Sunday blamed Britain's intensive farming methods for causing a devastating outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

Anti-Globalisation Demo Gives Trieste a Taste of Seattle

Agence France Presse TRIESTE, Italy, March 3 (AFP) - Several thousand environmentalists, students and leftwing protesters marched through the streets of this Adriatic port city here Saturday, shadowed by squads of helmeted riot police, as a Group of Eight (G8) ministerial meeting unfolded.

Rice Growers Cool to U.S. WTO Challenge against EU to Help One Firm

Inside US Trade / Vol. 19, No. 9

Good News for the Greens from NAFTA

Fred McMahon / National Post Watch out for your backyard! Powerful corporations can now plop down hazardous-waste plants wherever they wish. A NAFTA ruling -- being appealed in Vancouver -- has opened the floodgates for unregulated environmental degradation.

Free Trade Makes the World Cleaner

The Globe and Mail / MARCUS GEE Of all the arguments made against globalization and free trade, the loudest comes from environmentalists. They argue that, as global capitalists spread their tentacles around the world, nature inevitably suffers. "The international flow of goods and money, if unregulated, can have devastating impacts on the environment," says Friends of the Earth.