World Trade Organization

Inexplicable Obsession With Securing A Trade ""Round""

By SOPHIA MURPHY Sir, Your insistence on the need for a trade round, as indeed is the obsession of so many of our trade officials, is puzzling ("The case for a trade round", August 2). What in the word "round" makes it so essential to the health of the multilateral trade system?

Cairns Group United in Build-Up to Doha

Media Statement | September 6, 2001 The Cairns Group of agricultural trading nations has re-affirmed its unity of purpose in the build-up to a possible new world trade round, New Zealand trade minister Jim Sutton said today. The Cairns Group, a group of mainly southern hemisphere agricultural exporting countries, finished a three-day meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay today.

Moore Says WTO Mini-Ministerial in Mexico ""Edged Forward""; India Maintains Opposition

International Trade Reporter | Volume 18 Number 35 | September 6, 2001

Cairns Group Calls for Lowering Subsidies to Be High Priority in Doha

Agence France Presse | September 5, 2001 PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay - Leaders of the Cairns Group of agricultural exporting countries asked Tuesday for reduced farm subsidies to be a high priority in the next round of world trade talks. The call came during discussions about a regional trade deal between the United States and South America's Mercosur trading bloc.

Potential for Another Seattle-Like Fiasco Hangs over WTO

IPS | September 4, 2001 | By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA - With just two months left before the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), indecision continues to plague efforts to launch a new round of multilateral talks for deepening the processes towards global free trade.

Doha and the Crisis in Global Trade

Preparations for a new multilateral trade round are being put at risk by unrealistic expectations and unfulfilled pledges, writes Peter Sutherland Financial Times | September 4, 2001 | By PETER SUTHERLAND

Treaties May Curb Farmers"" Subsidies

By Elizabeth Becker New York Times WASHINGTON - Every five or six years Congress argues over how to subsidize farmers. But this time around the forces against big subsidies have a new weapon: the international trade agreements the United States signed promising to reduce those payments.

New Round of WTO Trade Talks Almost Certain: Future Chief

Agence France Presse | September 4, 2001 PARIS - A new round of WTO trade talks is almost certain to be lauched at the next ministerial meeting in November, the future director of the World Trade Organization, Supachai Panitchpakdi, said in a published interview Tuesday.

Mexico WTO Conference to Focus on Interests of Developing Nations

International Trade Daily | August 31, 2001

Ministers Attempt World Trade Talks

Associated Press | By Traci Carl, AP Business Writer | August 30, 2001 MEXICO CITY - Under a cloak of secrecy, trade ministers from around the world were converging on Mexico City to try to start global trade talks that never got off the ground in riot-marred talks in Seattle two years ago.