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WTO""s Mendoza Says Members Willing to Make Progress

HONG KONG, March 7 (Reuters) - World Trade Organisation (WTO) deputy director general Miguel Rodriguez Mendoza said on Tuesday member countries were now more willing to cooperate than before the Seattle round of negotiations. "We are moving from the confrontation of the pre-Seattle environment to a much more cooperative affair," Mendoza told a conference in Hong Kong.

US Still Mulling Retaliation Change in EU Beef Row

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Clinton administration is still considering whether to crank up the pressure in a beef dispute with the European Union by rotating steep import duties to a new set of EU goods, a spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Monday.

Farmers"" Insurance Premium Cut Urged

Associated Press / By PHILIP BRASHER, AP Farm Writer / March 2, 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators from the Plains states pushed legislation through a committee Thursday that would sharply reduce the premiums that farmers pay for federally subsidized crop insurance.

U.S. Ad War Erupts Over China Trade Pact

By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The giant AFL-CIO labor federation last month began airing television ads with grim footage of Chinese political prisoners and sweatshop workers, hoping to mobilize the American public against a landmark trade agreement with China.

China Debates Impact of Joining WTO

By ELAINE KURTENBACH Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - Legions of jobless farmers, backward factories bankrupted by foreign competition, Chinese products banished by Western brand names - for some in China, the prospect of joining the World Trade Organization conjures up nightmarish scenarios.
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