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Kicking the Subsidies: Third World Farmers Need a Fair Deal

The Guardian | August 18, 2003

Poorer/Developing Countries Make WTO Ag Trade Offer

Agweb.com | By Roger Bernard | August 20, 2003 A group of some 16 developing or "poor" countries have offered up an ag trade proposal for the latest round of WTO talks. The plan is seen as a response to the framework plan that the U.S. and European Union (EU) tabled last week.

Guess Who Comes Out On Top At Cancun? (and What to Do About It)

The East African | By Gichinga Ndirangu | August 18, 2003

Developing Nations Want to Drop Issues From Trade Talks

Associated Press | By Naomi Koppel | Saturday, August 16, 2003 GENEVA, Aug. 15 -- Officials of a group of developing nations, exhausted by long talks on how best to open up international trade, suggested today that several contentious topics be dropped from the current round of negotiations.

18th Session of the Global Biodiversity Forum

ICTSD | August 16, 2003

U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows in June

Associated Press | By Jeannine Aversa | Aug. 14, 2003 WASHINGTON - America's trade deficit narrowed in June as exports climbed to the highest level in two years, helped by better economic growth overseas. Imports were flat. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the trade gap was trimmed by 4.7 percent in June from May - to $39.5 billion.

Brazil Rejects US-EU Ag Proposal At WTO

EFE | August 14, 2003 Brazil rejects a joint U.S.-EU proposal for liberalizing trade in farm products as part of a possible broader agreement to be negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Thursday.

Will Cancun Promote or Undermine Development?

The Korea Herald | August 11, 2003

EU, U.S. Put up WTO Farm Trade Plan, Meet Flak

Reuters | By Richard Waddington | August 14, 2003 The European Union and the United States Wednesday put up a plan for farm trade reform that could inject new life into stalled talks for a new global trade pact -- but poorer countries said "no go."