Non-paper from the EU stating its position on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) at green room meetings taking place prior to the Hong Kong Ministerial Conference. The green rooms are being used to make further progress on the negotiations.
Poultry farms say no to drugs
BIRDS' ANTIBIOTICS MAY UNDERCUT HUMAN HEALTH
By Lisa M. Krieger
Mercury News
Something will be missing from many Bay Area dinner tables this Thanksgiving: antibiotics.
More detailed environmental studies examining how logging impacts wildlife habitat, particularly for birds, in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest should be completed by late January, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service said Thursday.
Progress Report by the Chair of the non-agricultural market access (NAMA) negotiations on the state of play of the negotiations. The report comes weeks before the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference to be held in Hong Kong.
The emergence of significant new markets for organic and "fairly traded"
products has been hailed as an important part of the effort to address the
chronic poverty suffered by many small-scale coffee producers in the
developing world. With 20-25 million producers around the world suffering
from a prolonged crash in coffee prices, the premiums in these niche markets
Excerpted from Sailing Close to the the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong Ministerial. The U.S. history of using food aid as a surplus disposal mechanism and vehicle to promote future export sales has drawn the World Trade Organization into the international debate about food aid.
Excerpted from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. According to a World Trade Organization
secretariat note in October 2004, the primary objective of cooperation and policy coherence among the WTO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for the Doha Round negotiations is to expand market access opportunities.
Excerpt from Sailing Close to the Wind: Navigating the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial. Conventional wisdom on the World Trade Organization negotiations has it that there will be a trade-off between concessions made by industrialized countries in agriculture
