World Trade Organization

WTO Moving Toward Anti-Dumping - a Move Fiercely Opposed by Many in US Congress

Reuters | November 12, 2001 DOHA - World Trade Organisation members are edging towards formal negotiations on anti-dumping rules, a move fiercely opposed by many in the U.S. Congress, a senior Japanese official said on Monday.

Protest Group Softens Tone at WTO Talks

Washington Post | November 12, 2001 | By Paul Blustein

US Says Farm Export Credits "On the Table" at WTO

Wall Street Journal | Dow Jones Newswires | November 12, 2001 DOHA, Qatar (AP)--The U.S. is willing to put the payments it makes to U.S. farmers "on the table" at any new global trade talks, leaving the European Union isolated in its insistence on keeping farm subsidies, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Monday.

EU Isolated on Agriculture as Japan Signals Support for Draft

Inside US Trade | November 12, 2001 DOHA--The European Union is increasingly isolated in its demand that an existing draft declaration on future negotiations in the World Trade Organization be changed with respect to agriculture.

USTR Breifing on Doha November 12, 2001

Chief briefer was Kathy Novelli.

US Needs New Thinking on Global Trade

Boston Globe | November 12, 2001 | By Robert Kuttner

Global Civil Society Broadens and Strengthens Mobilisation against WTO

Information note to the press | November 12, 2001 Qatar - Global civil society broadens and strengthens mobilisation against WTO Success of decentralised mobilisations on WTO in over 40 countries shows deepening and strengthening of the global civil society movement since Seattle.

Trade Deal Near for Broad Access to Cut-Rate Drugs

New York Times | By JOSEPH KAHN | November 12, 2001 DOHA, Qatar - Negotiators all but clinched a deal today that would give developing countries greater access to cut-price drugs to fight epidemics, defusing the most inflammatory dispute between rich and poor nations that had threatened to scuttle trade talks here.

Campaign Against Terrorism: Wto Summit - World Trade Conference Hosts Secret Policeman""s Ball""

By: Philip Thornton | The Independent (London) A Qatari special forces officer directs traffic as part of a huge security operation at the summit in Doha BODY:

World Trade Body Must Be Transformed To Benefit All The People

From Hira P. Jhamtani, Board Member, Institute for Global Justice, Jakarta | THE JAKARTA POST The fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) began Friday in Doha, Qatar, with civil society calling for democratization and a review of the multilateral trading body.