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Understanding the Farm Bill. U.S. WTO Commitments and the Farm Bill

One of a series of fact sheets examining the 2007 Farm Bill that was published by IATP. To read the entire series see "Understanding the Farm Bill" in our 2007 Farm Bill collection.

Fixing Our Broken Food System

The recent discovery of an industrial chemical in animal feed imported from China exposes the inherent weaknesses of an industrial global food system designed to benefit multinational agribusiness companies at the expense of public health.

IATP's comments to USTR on U.S. dumping

IATP's comments to the United States Trade Representative on Canada's allegations that the U.S. is dumping corn on world markets.

Strengthening Compliance at the WTO: Cross-retaliation in WTO disputes

Concentrated Market Power and Agricultural Trade

The growing market power of international food companies is adversely affecting the lives of farmers and consumers worldwide, according to a new paper by a Senior Advisor with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

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Amending WTO intellectual property rules to prevent biopiracy and improve patent quality

Developing countries have proposed an amendment to the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) by requiring patent applicants to disclose the origin of biological resources and traditional knowledge used in patented products.

Turning Pollution into Money: Environmental Services and GATS

Several analyses on GATS and water have been published; the focus here is on other environmental services, in particular solid and hazardous waste management. WTO members negotiating environmental services deregulation should be cautious, not least because few countries have regulatory mechanisms in place to protect the public interest.

U.S. Boxed Into a Corner at WTO

A new economic simulation of the U.S. agriculture proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed what NGOs and developing countries have been saying for months: the proposal has so many loopholes it may actually increase the allowable amount of domestic agriculture spending in the U.S. The new simulation exposed not only the emptiness of the U.S.