World Trade Organization

Amid Doubts, W.T.O. Plans Agriculture Talks

New York Times / By ELIZABETH OLSON GENEVA, April 3 -- After a year of proposals and counterproposals, the member nations of the World Trade Organization have finally agreed to begin negotiations in May on freer trade in agricultural goods. An agenda for the talks was approved late last week.

WTO Members to Tackle Contentious Ag Trade Issues

American Farm Bureau The World Trade Organization announced last week that its members reached consensus to proceed to the next phase of ag trade talks, paving the way for negotiations to commence on increasing global market access for farm exports.

Negotiators Agree New Timetable for WTO Farm Talks

Agra Europe A framework for a second year of agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation was agreed in Geneva on Tuesday. The work programme outlines subjects to be tackled through specific negotiated changes to the WTO's agriculture agreement, and was concluded one day ahead of schedule.

WTO Agriculture Work Plan

Inside US Trade / Vol. 19, No. 13 WORK PROGRAMME FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTINUING THE REFORM PROCESS UNDER ARTICLE 20 OF THE AGREEMENT ON AGRICULTURE * Nature and scope of Work Programme: work in depth on all issues and options for policy reform set out in Members' proposals, with further elaboration as appropriate.

Movement Brings Together Strange Bedfellows From Right and Left

By Reginald Dale International Herald Tribune March 16, 2001 Movement Brings Together Strange Bedfellows From Right and Left WASHINGTON Mike Moore, the genial director general of the World Trade Organization, likes to claim at least one world record: When he visited India recently, he says, he was burned in effigy in 30 different cities simultaneously.

WTO Seeks Bigger Services Role for Poorer Nations

Reuters / By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (WTO) countries agreed Wednesday to shape coming liberalization negotiations to try to ensure that developing countries play a larger role in the global services industry.

WTO Can Help World""s Poor Farmers

International Herald Tribune / Eugenio Diaz Bonilla and Sherman Robinson, IHT

WTO Agriculture Negotiations Proceed into Phase Two

BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest / Vol. 5, Number 11

Anti-WTO Protesters Already Gearing Up For Qatar Summit

AFP GENEVA, March 27 With eight months still to go before the next meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Qatar, the anti-globalisation movement is already busy at work on new protest moves.

WTO Deadlock On Implementation

Inside US Trade March 23, 2001 Developing countries' efforts to wring more benefits from existing World Trade Organization agreements ran into a wall of silence from the leading industrial countries at an informal General Council meeting late last week.