Agence France Presse | March 24, 2004
China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that senior US Department of Commerce officials are scheduled to arrive in Beijing this week for trade talks, expected to tackle a raft of sticky issues.
THE LAWYERS WEEKLY | By John W. Boscariol and Orlando E. Silva | March 26, 2004
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the subject of a long-simmering quarrel between the United States and the European Union, are now at the centre of a major trade dispute at the World Trade Organization.
Agence France Presse | March 22, 2004
An HIV vaccine is not likely to be developed in the next decade, the head of the UN's AIDS prevention program said Monday, adding that any breakthrough would be the result of a long process of trial and error.
AIDS Vaccine Week | March 22, 2004 Citing a health crisis "of unprecedented proportions," 55 European and Central Asian nations vowed to halt the fast-spreading virus that causes AIDS, agreeing on an ambitious agenda of providing increased and improved treatment and prevention.
Agence France Presse | March 22, 2004
The European Union is prepared to discuss the elimination of agricultural export subsidies on all products, European Union agriculture minister Franz Fischler said here Monday.
Fischler recalled that the EU last year asked developing countries to provide a list of specific products on which they wanted to see the subsidies scrapped.
Financial Express | By ASHOK B SHARMA | March 21, 2004
The rising inflow of fresh exotic apples into the country has invited concerns for the growers and the domestic industry Apple growers and the industry have blamed the government for allowing imports of `diseased apples' without any proper quarantine checks.
Japan Times | March 17, 2004
A U.S. plan to intensify mad cow disease surveillance has not affected U.S.-Japan beef talks or the ban on imports, a senior official at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry said Tuesday.
