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'Dying for Free Trade: U.S. Or Us', read the banner held high by Thai NGOs and AIDS activists on the 28 June outside the US Embassy in Bangkok. They were supporting the January resolution passed by the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow the production of generic drugs within a shorter time lag after the release of the branded versions.
DuPont has announced the creation of an independent advisory panel that will audit DuPont's progress on biotechnology issues and provide a public report on a regular basis.
The world's two most powerful Gene Giants have decided to share their agricultural biotechnologies with one another. The agreement creates the kind of non-merger monopoly that is overlooked by government regulators, and the costs of such a union are offloaded onto farmers and consumers.
The European Union and the United States are standing in the way of a
development round at the WTO Summit in Doha, despite both trading powers
claiming to support one.
The EU's Common Agriculture Policy is enormously expensive and enormously damaging. The CAP undermines the livelihoods of millions of farmers in developing countries by dumping cheap produce in their markets and denying them export opportunities to the largest single market in the world.
After nearly a decade of super-charged, globalized trade, farmers around the world - from the Philippines to the U.S. - have been crushed by lower prices. The farm crisis has gone global, and many are looking for answers before taking another step forward.
Five primary farm commodities are being dumped onto international global markets by the United States in violation of World Trade Organization (WTO) agriculture rules, according to a new report released today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Ducks Unlimited testified before the House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
As this column is being written the markets for corn, soybeans and wheat are jittery with prices vacillating up and down as traders try to figure out the impact of weather on the size of 2002 crops in the U.S.
A global coalition of non-governmental organisations is urging the Indian government to fully challenge a patent on basmati rice held by the US corporation RiceTec Inc.
This paper specifies 10 ways in which global trade negotiations would benefit developing countries. Trade offers the biggest, and most lasting dividends contributing to economic development.
Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed.
The draft texts released today by the WTO on new trade rules for agriculture and industrial products reflect the broad divergences that remain between WTO Members over the Doha Round, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
This letter accompanied the Draft Text on Implementation Issues. Again, it indicates that there have been strong differences among
governments on these issues.
When Seattle trade talks broke down at the 1999 WTO Ministerial, farm negotiators were working from a draft text prepared by the WTO staff on the basis of negotiations up to that point. This text, never officially released by the WTO, is printed below. The paragraph numbering reflects the fact that it is one part of a draft ministerial declaration that covered many other subjects.