World Trade Organization

WTO Rules U.S. Steel Tariffs Violate Global Trade Rules; US to Appeal

AFX | July 11, 2003

Buoyed by CAP Reform, EU Says Changes Needed in U.S. Farm Policy

Deutsche Presse-Agentur | July 11, 2003 Buoyed by last month's long-awaited accord on revamping European Union farm policy, E.U. trade chief Pascal Lamy said Friday he now expected similar concessions from the U.S. and other members of the World Trade Organisation.

U.S. Seeks Japan""s Leadership For Successful Cancun Meeting

Japan Economic Newswire | By Yoichi Kosukegawa | July 11, 2003 U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick urged Japanese farm minister Yoshiyuki Kamei on Friday to take the lead in breaking the impasse over farm trade liberalization to achieve a successful World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in September.

Negotiations In The WTO Are An Unknown, Says Brazilian Trade Minister

Folha de Sao Paulo | By CLOVIS ROSSI | July 10, 2003 Lisbon -- The outcome of trade negotiations in progress at the World Trade Organization (WTO) went from "completely blocked" to "an unknown," in the opinion of the Brazilian Foreign Relations [Trade] Minister Celso Amorim after a trip to Geneva, where the WTO headquarters are located.

US Says EU Must Show More Farm Trade Movement

Reuters | By Doug Palmer | July 9, 2003 The United States pressured the European Union on Wednesday to show more flexibility in farm trade talks even if it does not offer new proposals.

In Africa, Bush Raps Europe and Japan on Agricultural Subsidies

Agence France Presse | July 10, 2003 President George W. Bush, criticised for shielding US farmers with huge state aid, on Thursday told Europe and Japan to slash agricultural export subsidies blamed for choking Africa's bid to feed itself. Bush said he discussed the issue in talks here with Botswana's President Festus Mogae on the third stage of his five-leg African tour.

Japan Farm Minister to Visit US, Canada Next Week to Discuss WTO/Trade Row

AFX News | July 9, 2003

WTO ""Not Ready For Meeting In Mexico""

Business Day (South Africa)| By John Fraser | July 9, 2003 PREPARATIONS for the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) meeting in Mexico are far from being finalised and the meeting could be as disastrous as Seattle in 1999, the Commonwealth Business Council has warned.

Global Forest and Paper Industries Unite to Seek Free and Fair Trade

Canada NewsWire | July 8, 2003

Lamy Warns US it will Lose if it Seeks WTO Ruling on Biotech Labelling

Agence France Presse | July 8, 2003 The European Union's top trade representative warned the United States Tuesday it would fail if it went to the World Trade Organization to challenge recent EU legislation requiring genetically modified food to carry labels.