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US Says EU Must Show More Farm Trade Movement

Reuters | By Doug Palmer | July 9, 2003 The United States pressured the European Union on Wednesday to show more flexibility in farm trade talks even if it does not offer new proposals.

Negotiations In The WTO Are An Unknown, Says Brazilian Trade Minister

Folha de Sao Paulo | By CLOVIS ROSSI | July 10, 2003 Lisbon -- The outcome of trade negotiations in progress at the World Trade Organization (WTO) went from "completely blocked" to "an unknown," in the opinion of the Brazilian Foreign Relations [Trade] Minister Celso Amorim after a trip to Geneva, where the WTO headquarters are located.

Jailed French Militant Farmer Will Have Sentence Shortened In Bastille Day Clemency

Associated Press | July 10, 2003 PARIS (AP) - French militant farmer Jose Bove's jail sentence will be reduced by four months in this year's traditional Bastille Day clemency, the government said Thursday. Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald's restaurant under construction in 1999, was jailed last month to serve 10 months for destroying genetically modified crops.

Japan Farm Minister to Visit US, Canada Next Week to Discuss WTO/Trade Row

AFX News | July 9, 2003

Boom Bubble of 1990s Leaves 50 Nations Poorer

Reuters | By Evelyn Leopold | July 8, 2003 The boom of the 1990s left some 50 nations worse off than they were 10 years earlier, jeopardizing pledges by world leaders to cut poverty in half by 2015, a major U.N. report said.

WTO ""Not Ready For Meeting In Mexico""

Business Day (South Africa)| By John Fraser | July 9, 2003 PREPARATIONS for the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) meeting in Mexico are far from being finalised and the meeting could be as disastrous as Seattle in 1999, the Commonwealth Business Council has warned.

Global Forest and Paper Industries Unite to Seek Free and Fair Trade

Canada NewsWire | July 8, 2003

Lamy Warns US it will Lose if it Seeks WTO Ruling on Biotech Labelling

Agence France Presse | July 8, 2003 The European Union's top trade representative warned the United States Tuesday it would fail if it went to the World Trade Organization to challenge recent EU legislation requiring genetically modified food to carry labels.

Chretien Presses Bush on Canadian Beef

ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 8, 2003 TORONTO (AP) -- Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday asked President Bush to reopen the border to Canadian beef as quickly as possible after an investigation found no evidence that a recent case of mad cow disease spread beyond a single cow.

EU Eyes Free Trade Accord with ASEAN

Agence France Presse | July 7, 2003 The European Union is ready to negotiate a free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) after the current round of WTO-led talks, the European Commission said Monday.