World Trade Organization

Will Cancun Be a Real Development Round?

Carnegie Endowment for Peace | August 14, 2003 As the World Trade Organization meets in September to kickstart the stalled "development round" of trade talks, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identifies the real challenges negotiators face, debunks facile free trade slogans, and offers recommendations for the negotiation tables.

Brazil, India, China Table Counterproposal To U.S.-EU Farm Framework

Inside U.S. Trade | August 20, 2003 Brazil, India and China today presented their own version of a framework for agricultural negotiations in the World Trade Organization as a counterproposal to one championed by the U.S. and European Union last week.

EU-U.S. Trade Reform Proposal and WTO Cancun Talks: Fair Trade Experts Available

IATP | August 14, MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 14 [AScribe Newswire] -- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy [IATP] expressed deep concern over the agricultural trade reform proposal submitted to the World Trade Organization yesterday by a joint European Union-United States committee.

Guess Who Comes Out On Top At Cancun? (and What to Do About It)

The East African | By Gichinga Ndirangu | August 18, 2003

18th Session of the Global Biodiversity Forum

ICTSD | August 16, 2003

Developing Nations Want to Drop Issues From Trade Talks

Associated Press | By Naomi Koppel | Saturday, August 16, 2003 GENEVA, Aug. 15 -- Officials of a group of developing nations, exhausted by long talks on how best to open up international trade, suggested today that several contentious topics be dropped from the current round of negotiations.

Brazil Rejects US-EU Ag Proposal At WTO

EFE | August 14, 2003 Brazil rejects a joint U.S.-EU proposal for liberalizing trade in farm products as part of a possible broader agreement to be negotiated under the auspices of the World Trade Organization, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Thursday.

Will Cancun Promote or Undermine Development?

The Korea Herald | August 11, 2003

EU, U.S. Put up WTO Farm Trade Plan, Meet Flak

Reuters | By Richard Waddington | August 14, 2003 The European Union and the United States Wednesday put up a plan for farm trade reform that could inject new life into stalled talks for a new global trade pact -- but poorer countries said "no go."