World Trade Organization

U.S. Support for New Round Contrasts with Hardline on LDCs

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20

EU to Target U.S. Farm Loans in WTO Agriculture Talks

Inside US Trade | Vol. 19, No. 20 The European Commission plans to propose next week that the World Trade Organization impose the same reduction commitments on U.S. farm supports like the $8.1 billion U.S. marketing loan and deficiency payment program that trading partners' agriculture negotiators want to place on the European Union's export subsidies, informed sources said.

China to Liberalize Grain Trade After WTO: Official

AFX News Limited BEIJING (AFX-ASIA) - China is irreversibly moving towards a freer farm produce market, and will have to further adapt its agricultural polices after it joins the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a senior agriculture official said yesterday, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

WTO General Council Chair Launches Preparations For Qatar

Inside US Trade May 11, 2001

U.S., EU Seen Drifting Apart in Approach To Environmental Matters in WTO Talks

By Gary G. Yerkey International Environment Reporter Volume 24 Number 10 May 9, 2001 Page 358

From the WTO: Procedures for NGO Accreditation

DOHA WTO MINISTERIAL 2001: NGO ACCREDITATION

NGOs Wishing to Attend WTO Qatar Ministerial Must Apply by July 2

GENEVA--The World Trade Organization's General Council chairman said May 8 that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) wanting to attend the fourth WTO ministerial conference, to be held this year in Doha, Qatar, must submit their initial registration applications by July 2.:

On the Day of the WTO General Council Meeting on Preparations for Qatar Global Unions Tell WTO Nothing Learned from Failure in Seattle

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU)

Trade Union to Destroy Pepsi Stocks

The Asian Age/The Bangalore Age / By Our Correspondent Bangalore, May 1 -- The Karnataka Trade Union Centre will launch a campaign against Pepsi and Coca Cola as the first step towards boycott of imported goods allowed under the WTO agreement, KTUC president G.R. Shiva Shankar said.

Industrialized Nations Pressure Bush to Initiate Global Trade Talks

Knight Ridder/Tribune / Carter Dougherty, The Washington Times Major business groups and key U.S. allies are pushing President Bush to set his sights on a higher goal than a deal made last month to bring free trade to the Western Hemisphere -- a new round of global trade talks.