AP Worldstream ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
DAVOS, Switzerland -- The global economy has grown strong but so has debate over who has benefited and who has lost in the boom, world corporate and government leaders heard at an annual summit Friday.
January 21, 2000 | OPINION | BY HECTOR ROGELIO TORRES We have failed in launching a broad new round of talks to liberalize world trade. But in spite of this, negotiations to further liberalize trade in agriculture are to start at the beginning of this year.
01/16/2000 / By Gregg Jones / The Dallas Morning News
COWRA, Australia -- Ian Donges is an amiable Aussie.
But if you want to see the brawny rancher smolder, ask him about the steep tariffs the Clinton administration slapped on Australian and New Zealand lamb imports in July.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2000
Farm output expands slowly even as population growth and changing diets boost demand.
Laurent Belsie (belsiel@csps.com) / Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
ST. LOUIS -- Wanted: the next "green revolution."
Associated Press
In a ruling stemming from a dispute with the European Union over banana imports, the World Trade Organization on today upheld a U.S. law that punishes other countries for violating global trade rules.:
International Trade Reporter
Volume 16 Number 49 Thursday, December 16, 1999 Page 2027 ISSN 1523-2816 World News
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Reconvening WTO Ministerial Meeting Will Take Some Time, EU Official Says
New York Times / AP / Nov. 6 1999
WASHINGTON -- A study from the International Food Policy Research Institute was cited as saying that the world's farmers will have to increase grain production by 40 percent to meet global needs in 2020.
