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U.S. Files WTO Complaint Vs Mexico Over Drink Sweetener

AFX European Focus | March 16, 2004

World Bank Chief Treads New Ground in US

Reuters | By Lesley Wroughton | March 13, 2004 WASHINGTON - The United States is the World Bank (news - web sites)'s biggest shareholder, and bank president James Wolfensohn wants Americans to know where their dollars are going.

Trade Agreement Is A Blight On Quarantine

The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) | By ALISON REHN | March 11, 2004 CLOSING a loophole in the quarantine laws that allows 4500 weeds to be imported may not be possible if the Australia-US free trade agreement is passed, the Democrats said.

US POLICY SUCCESSES IN ASIA

But wait. On the far side of the world there are some things that the Bush administration may be getting right.

U.S. Plans Steps To Open Markets In China, India

The Washington Post | By Paul Blustein | March 10, 2004 U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick, said yesterday that the United States soon may file its first global trade case against China and plans to aggressively pursue open markets in India as well. China and India are two of the countries at the center of the controversy over job losses in the United States.

UNEP Regional Office Urges Caution On Transgenics

IPS | March 3, 2004 Mexico City, 3 Mar (IPS/Diego Cevallos) -- The United Nations Environment Programme warned Wednesday in Mexico that transgenic crops could pose a threat to biodiversity and human health, and recommended that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean act with caution in using genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Cause Of Sugar Crisis Missed

Townsville Bulletin/Townsville Sun (Australia) | By MARGARET MENZEL | March 8, 2004 RECENT claims that the sugar industry is "unsustainable" completely miss the cause of this industry's crisis.

Unctad Report Says FDI Flows to Brazil, Mexico Dropped in 2002

The Main Wire | March 5, 2004 A report released Friday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development found that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Brazil, Mexico and Columbia dipped in 2002 from 2001. The agency said FDI flows to Brazil declined from $22.5 billion in 2001 to $16.6 billion in 2002, or by more than 26%.

Free Trade Is Anything but Fair, and Lousy Economics Besides

Los Angeles Times | By Amitai Etzioni | March 5, 2004 "Free trade" is God's gift to modern economies, and for a politician to support "fair trade" is tantamount to worshiping graven images.

Agreement Will Force U.S. Exporters To Label GE Foods

Aberdeen American News (South Dakota) | March 5, 2004 Eighty-seven countries reached an historic agreement here today that takes concrete steps towards establishing new, internationally recognized rights to protect public health, sustainable agricultural production and the environment from genetic contamination caused by international trade in genetically engineered (GE) organisms.