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EU Farm Ministers Meet to Forge WTO Ag Position

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest | Volume 3, No. 38 As BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest went to press, EU agriculture ministers were meeting to adopt a formal position for WTO agriculture talks.

U.S. to Draft Proposal for Faster GM Crop Approvals

Reuters | September 30, 1999 | Julie Vorman WASHINGTON - Peter Scher, special U.S. ambassador for agricultural trade, was cited as saying today that U.S. trade negotiators are working with other countries to draft a proposal that would force the European Union to speed up its approval procedures for imports of genetically modified (GM) crops.

Equity, Market Access Drive G-77 WTO Agenda

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest | Volume 3, No. 38 | September 27, 1999

New Zealand""s Mike Moore Takes over as WTO Chief

Agence France Presse | September 1, 1999 GENEVA - Former New Zealand Prime Minister Mike Moore took up his post Wednesday at the head of the World Trade Organization, preparing to steer it into the Millennium Round of world trade negotiations.

New WTO Chief Pledges All Efforts for Poor States

Yahoo! Headlines World | September 1, 1999 | By Robert Evans GENEVA - Mike Moore, taking over as new head of the World Trade Organisation, pledged on Wednesday that he would devote "all efforts" to help poor countries to benefit from freer global trade. He also called on the richer powers to play their part by throwing open their markets to goods from poorer regions.

Good for Monsanto. Bad for the Poor

GUARDIAN (London) | August 30, 1999 | by Larry Elliott

French President Concerned over EU-US Trade Dispute

International news | August 30, 1999 PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac on Monday expressed concern in a meeting with the co-presidents of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue over an escalating trade dispute between the EU and the United States.

New Trade Threat for U.S. Farmers

New York Times | August 29, 1999 | By MELODY PETERSEN WASHINGTON - American farmers paid premium prices this spring to sow many of their fields with genetically engineered corn and soybeans, but now as the fall harvest nears, more of the international buyers they depend upon are saying they do not want those crops.

Europe Guilty of ""Bio-Colonialism"", Say Organic Farmers

PANOS-ID21 Feature | June 30, 1999 | By Lezak Shallat SANTIAGO - Organic farmers in Chile are finding that a high demand for their products in health-conscious European countries doesn't necessarily mean a guaranteed - let alone a growing - market.

U.S. Warns EU of Trade War over GM Food

Reuters | August 12, 1999 LONDON - The top U.S. representative in Brussels has warned that Europe and the United States are heading for a trade war over an EU decision to suspend licences for genetically modified foods, the Times reported on Thursday.