By Jalil Hamid
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Pacific Rim nations vowed on Monday to press ahead with free trade and set the stage for a new global trade round despite a setback at WTO talks in Seattle last year.
SINGAPORE, Feb 14 (Reuters) - World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General Mike Moore said on Monday he will put together a package under which big powers will provide market access for less developed countries by Easter.
by Miki Shimogori
TOKYO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Japan Tobacco Inc (JT), the world's third-largest tobacco group, sees huge growth potential in China once it wins membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), president Masaru Mizuno said on Monday.
UTICA, N.Y. (Reuters/Zogby) - The number of Americans favoring a better record of human rights and religious freedom prior to admitting China to the global trade system has dropped by over 10 percentage points in the three months since similar research was conducted by Zogby International.
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers said on Monday they would introduce legislation calling for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to admit Taiwan and China at the same time, in a move that could anger Beijing.
BRASILIA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley said on Monday the United States is not trying to impose labor and environmental standards on the developing world, but those concerns need to be addressed in trade talks.
By Robert Evans
BANGKOK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - World Trade Organisation chief Mike Moore suggested on Sunday the big powers should agree to open their markets wide to goods from the poorest if they wanted to win backing for a new round of global trade talks.
By Jason Reed
BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuters) - An American protester shoved a cream pie into the face of IMF chief Michel Camdessus Sunday, while hundreds of anti-free trade activists rushed past Thai police checkpoints near a U.N. trade agency summit in Bangkok.
[The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition] February 13, 2000
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No Benefit To Poorest Countries From Free Trade-UN Report
BANGKOK (AP)--The world's 48 poorest countries are failing to benefit from free trade and globalization and face worsening poverty, inequality and marginalization, a U.N. report said Sunday.
