Water

Industry and Ag Reps Seek to Limit Environmental Review of Trade Pacts

Inside US Trade - Vol. 18, No. 35

WTO Affirms GATT Precedent in Ruling Against U.S. 1916 AD Law

Inside US Trade - Vol. 18, No. 35 In a ruling against a 1916 U.S. antidumping law, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization this week affirmed that anti-dumping laws are covered by a dispute settlement principle established in the original General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and carried forward into the WTO.

Metalclad NAFTA Chapter 11 Decision Out

Note: A dangerous polluter, Metalcad, has been successful in an NAFTA Arbitration over its bankruptcy. Metalclad's battery smelting plant along the Rio Grande served as the poster child of sick industries using low wage workers to handle dangerous material and spew tons of toxic materials into the atmosphere.)

Aussie Trade Stance Could Stump Free Trade Deal

NZ Times Staff Reporter Patric Lane 29/08/00 13:32:00 A perception that Australia is a hard country to do business with may be an obstacle to the formation of an Asia-Pacific free-trade area, says Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton.

Trade: TRIPs Regime at Odds with Human Rights Law, Says UN Body

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Free Trade a Myth, Says New Zealand Meat Board Director

By FOX Andrea A MEAT BOARD director says international tolerance for New Zealand's "holier than thou" free-trade preaching is running out. John McCarthy said yesterday that the free-trade concept promoted by political and farming leaders was a lemon. Free trade would never happen and if it did, could backfire badly on New Zealand red-meat producers.

Trade: WTO Concerned over Human Rights Appraisal Report

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Greenspan Defends Globalization

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing number of countries are opening their markets as a way toward improved living standards, but an economic downturn could reverse the trend, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned Friday.

UN Warns of Conflict Between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights

August 22, 2000 PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kristin Dawkins, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Tel: 612-870-3410; Fax: 612-870-4846; Email: kdawkins@iatp.org UNITED NATIONS BODY WARNS OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS COULD INFLUENCE PATENTS FOR DRUGS, BIOTECH SEEDS

UN report finds freer trade boosted smoking

UN report finds freer trade boosted smoking By Robert Evans GENEVA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A United Nations-sponsored report has found that freer global trade over the past two decades has boosted smoking, especially in developing countries, by making the dangerous habit cheaper.