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Brazilian President Meets With Castro to Talk Trade

Associated Press | September 28, 2003 HAVANA -- Linked for decades as fellow icons of Latin America's left, Brazil's president and Fidel Castro cemented their relationship Saturday as they talked business and ignored Cuba's human-rights record.

Brazilian Trade Goals: After Cancun

Stratfor's Global Intelligence Report | September 25, 2003 Summary Brazilians believe the recent failure of multilateral trade negotiations at Cancun was a major political victory for their country -- but they could be badly mistaken. Analysis

Miami Plans To Prevent Disruptions During Trade Talks

Floridabiz.com | By Steve Ellman | September 19, 2003 Miami hopes to be more successful than Washington, D.C., was in 1998 at preventing violence

WTO Panel Delays Decision On Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

Biotech Week | September 24, 2003 The World Trade Organization has delayed a decision on a measure giving poor nations access to inexpensive generic drugs, a move that would improve their ability to fight such diseases as AIDS and malaria.

Rich Nations Must Break Trade Impasse To Fight Poverty, Says Wolfensohn

Agence France Presse | By SAM DAGHER | September 23, 2003 World Bank president James Wolfensohn called on rich nations Tuesday to provide more aid and facilitate trade with poor countries to combat an alarming rise in poverty and make the world a safer place.

Steeled for 2004?

Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) | September 23, 2003

Ohio Congressmen Criticize Trade Agenda, Seek to Save U.S. Jobs

The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio | By Jeffrey Sheban | Last week's collapse of world trade talks in Cancun, Mexico, should signal to the Bush administration to change course, representatives of Ohio's industrial heartland said yesterday.

Failed Cancun Talks Give Impetus To Bilateral Deals

The International Herald Tribune | By Brian Knowlton | September 23, 2003 Tuesday WASHINGTON -- No sooner had the dust begun to settle from the collapse of the recent World Trade Organization talks in Cancun than a variety of officials began raising the specter of a return to the very sort of bilateral trade arrangements that the Cancun talks aspired to replace.

NGOs Seen As Reason For Talks Failure

The Nation (Thailand) | September 23, 2003 International trade sources believe non-governmental organisations were responsible for last week's walkout by African, Caribbean and Pacific countries at the World Trade Organisation meeting in Cancun, which led to a collapse of the global trade talks.

China Not Honouring Its WTO Promises, American Report Claims

South China Morning Post | By Allen T. Cheng | September 23, 2003 China not honouring its WTO promises, American report claims; Little progress is seen on financial services, agriculture and distribution