World Trade Organization

Zoellick Questions Survival Of Doha Round If No Framework Agreement Reached In July

Zoellick Questions Survival Of Doha Round If No Framework Agreement Reached In July Remarks of U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick At the Opening Ceremony of the G-90 Meeting Trade Ministers Meeting Mauritius July 12, 2004 Excellency, Prime Minister and colleagues.

G90 Poor Nations Hold Strategy Session Over WTO Trade Talks

Trade ministers from the G90 developing nations were due to open a strategy session on global trade negotiations in Mauritius on Monday, less than a year after a World Trade Organization summit saw their bloc pitted against the world's wealthiest countries.

WTO Trade Talks Show Signs Of Faltering

Trade ministers from developing countries were holding a meeting in Mauritius Monday, amid growing signs that the effort to revive global free trade talks by the end of this month were faltering.

WTO Trade Talks Show Signs Of Faltering

Trade ministers from developing countries were holding a meeting in Mauritius Monday, amid growing signs that the effort to revive global free trade talks by the end of this month were faltering.

Poverty The Enemy In Battle For Peace

In the run-up to the 1997 general election in Britain, the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Tony Blair, coined the phrase "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime". It was a typical media soundbite that lacked a verb and, unfortunately, has lacked the policies and programme to make it a reality.

Europeans Don't Quaff But Rather Scoff At Bioengineered Beer

Spurned across the continent by food-fastidious Europeans, the biotechnology industry has turned in its quest for converts to the ultimate ice breaker: genetically modified beer.

WTO Postpones Agriculture Meeting From Next Week

The World Trade Organisation has postponed next week's key negotiations on liberalising the trade in agriculture, a trade source said today. A new date for the meeting of trade negotiators, which was meant to be held on July 14-16, will be announced as soon as possible, the source added.

Canada Guiding WTO Talks to End Farm Subsidies

OTTAWA - Canadian officials are helping to broker critical international talks on farm subsidies designed to help crack open wider world trade in agricultural products. Finding a way to end the billions of dollars in subsidies the United States and European Union give their farmers is crucial to Canadian producers, Trade Minister Jim Peterson said Tuesday.