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U.S. Loses WTO Steel Case

Associated Press | By NAOMI KOPPEL, Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) -- The World Trade Organization ruled Wednesday that the United States had acted illegally in deciding to increase duties on Japanese steel imports.

EU to Make New Push for Global Trade Talks

Reuters / By Adrian Croft BRUSSELS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The European Union hopes World Trade Organisation members can agree by the northern summer on the broad outline of a declaration launching new global trade talks that would be adopted by ministers in November in Qatar.

A New Farm Policy

Mainichi Daily News (Japan) / February 27, 2001, Tuesday

U.S. May Reconsider China""s MFN Status

The Daily Yomiuri / Yomiuri Shimbun The U.S. Congress likely will reconsider a plan to grant permanent most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status to China if the country does not join the World Trade Organization by June, trade sources in Tokyo said Tuesday.

Final Resolution from the Second Prepcom On Finance for Development

The International Conference on Financing for Development will be held in Mexico in 2002 at the highest political level including a summit, the concluding resolution of the second FfD Preparatory Committee recommended on Friday 23 February 2001. (Full text of the resolution is available on the FfD website : www.un.org/esa/ffd).

Islamic Nations Head for Globalisation

The leaders of eight Muslim developing nations with a combined population of 800 million vowed today to take up the challenges of globalisation and join forces to face the developed states of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Contract Bill Draws IFU Focus; Farmers Group Weighs Top Legislative Concerns

THE PANTAGRAPH (Bloomington, IL.) / February 17, 2001 / By CHRIS ANDERSON SPRINGFIELD - With more than 8,000 bills introduced so far in the Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Farmers Union members expect to remain busy this spring monitoring farm issues.

Help Family Farms Survive

Capital Times (Madison, WI) / February 22, 2001 / By: Margaret Krome

Liberate Trade, Not Paranoia

An op-ed published in the Globe And Mail by WTO Director General Mike Moore. The world needs an international agreement on services - not rhetoric from merchants of fear about threats to national autonomy, says WTO boss MIKE MOORE MIKE MOORE Wednesday, February 21, 2001

WTO Director General Sees July As Decision Point For Qatar

Inside US Trade February 23, 2001