Reuters | By Alan Wheatley, Asia Economics Correspondent
KYOTO, Japan - The European Union's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, said on Thursday he would go to China soon to resume talks on its application to join the World Trade Organisation.
By Kafil Yamin
BANDUNG, Indonesia, Mar 9 (IPS) - Floods have disrupted harvest in a few areas in the country, but for most of Indonesia's rice-producing regions, this season is expected to produce bumper crops.
By Brian Kenety
BRUSSELS, Mar 9 (IPS) - A comprehensive critique of a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), commissioned by the European Commission, is drawing fire from Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) for failing to take account of significant drivers of trade liberalisation.
CongressDaily
TOKYO--Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare is making an emergency examination of U.S.-grown beef for potential contamination by an endocrine disrupter, diethylstilbestrol (DES), in response to the finding of DES in U.S. beef exported to Switzerland, ministry officials said March 3.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said on Thursday he would delay a vote on U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) for months, a decision that could help the White House shore up support for a landmark trade agreement with China.
BEIJING, March 9 (AFP) - China Thursday demanded the United States grant unconditional normal trade status, warning that attaching conditions would harm US companies' interests in China.
BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder picked up support from more European Union partners today for Germany's new nominee to head the International Monetary Fund.
But Schroeder declined to say whether he had won over the country that nixed the first candidate: the United States.
By Carter Dougherty / THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The Clinton administration's refusal to make public the details of a landmark trade agreement with China is hampering efforts to win congressional approval for the deal, leading senators said.
