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Ottawa Must Appeal WTO Drug Ruling

The Toronto Star The World Trade Organization has taken a potshot at our health-care system, one that threatens to add to the already high cost of drugs. To understand what the WTO has done, a bit of background is necessary. The story begins in the Mulroney era.

US Trade Rules Under Increasing Challenge

Journal of Commerce You just have to feel a little empathy for U.S. trade officials, who, it seems, can hardly make a decision these days without risking a foreign challenge -- if the decision is to keep out unfairly priced imports or otherwise protect U.S. producers from import surges.

Corn Growers Question Need to Sacrifice Export Markets Due to Genetically Modified Crops

NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN CORN GROWERS ASSOCIATION Contact: Gary Goldberg, 918-488-1829, David Senter, 202-331-4348, acga@acga.org

The Lipizzaner Stallions Dance Into a Trade Duel

New York Times | By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. IPICA, Slovenia -- If one-trick ponies dream, they dream of being Lipizzaners.

Cops Quash WTO Repeat in Fat Tuesday Fracas

SEATTLE (APBnews.com) -- In its first violent confrontation since the World Trade Organization riots last year, city police this week controlled a drunken Mardi Gras melee with little fanfare.

China, Thailand Sign WTO Deal

BEIJING (AP) - China and Thailand have signed a bilateral agreement in support of Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization, state-run media reported Friday.

China Signs More WTO Pacts, Awaits EU Envoy

By Paul Eckert BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) - China's foreign trade minister signed a World Trade Organisation deal with Thailand on Friday and declared "it won't be long" before China completes its 14-year quest to join the WTO, state media said.

Support Grows for Germany""s Koehler as EU Choice for IMF

By Stephane Barbier BRUSSELS, March 10 (AFP) - More countries on Friday gave their backing to Germany's Horst Koehler to become the new European candidate to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Clinton Faces Uphill Struggle in Congress over China Trade

By Nathaniel Harrison WASHINGTON, March 10 (AFP) - Clinton administration officials acknowledge they face an uphill struggle to win congressional backing for expanded trade with China despite an intense lobbying campaign by the White House.

New WTO Round ""Necessary"": France

BANGKOK, March 10 (AFP) - A new round of multilateral trade talks is "necessary" and would benefit all parties, the French minister of state for foreign trade said here Friday. "It's necessary to launch a new round (of negotiations). It's in all our interests," said Francois Huwart, who was in the Thai capital to end a week-long, three-nation tour of Southeast Asia.