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News archives

Monday, September 30, 2002

EU to Take S Korean Shipping Row to WTO
AFX - Asia | September 30, 2002 BRUSSELS - The EU is set to agree to take a dispute with South Korea over shipbuilding to the WTO after informal talks failed to reach an amicable solution, a source said. Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy was briefing EU foreign ministers in Brussels on the row, w... Continued...

IMF Pledges Reforms to Make Globalization Work for All
Deutsche Presse-Agentur | September 30, 2002 Washington - Stung by persistent criticism of its lending policies, the International Monetary Fund promised reforms at the IMF-World Bank annual meeting and a softer touch in guiding poor countries' economic affairs. "We should welcome the broad an... Continued...

Sunday, September 29, 2002

Rich Nations Are Criticized for Enforcing Trade Barriers
New York Times | September 29, 2002 | By Edmund L. Andrews WASHINGTON - For all the polite nods toward the protesters outside, those in charge of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund offered few apologies this weekend for the many failed attempts to increase prosperity in the world'... Continued...

Taiwan, Singapore Poised to Talk on Free Trade Agreement
Agence France Presse | September 29, 2002 TAIPEI - Taiwan and Singapore will begin negotiations on the forging of a free trade agreement (FTA) this year, a top economic official said in newspaper reports on Sunday. "A consensus has been reached that Taiwan will talk with Singapore in the name ... Continued...

Friday, September 27, 2002

WTO Members Polarized on How to Govern ""Green Box"" Ag Support
Inside US Trade | September 27, 2002 World Trade Organization members in this week's informal agricultural talks were polarized over how and whether to change existing rules governing domestic subsidies that are not considered to distort trade, according to Geneva sources. Developing countries, i... Continued...

IMF Meets Amid Anti-Globalization Storm
Toronto Star | September 27, 2002 | David Crane, Economics Editor 20,000 protestors expected to try to disrupt talks Despite a global economy that has clearly weakened in the past six months, what's needed now is not "undue pessimism," but "measures to build confidence," Horst Kohler, managing... Continued...

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

WTO Agriculture Talks Far From Agreement
Associated Press Worldstream | By NAOMI KOPPEL | September 25, 2002 Members of the World Trade Organization disclosed Wednesday that they were still far from agreement after five days of talks on reducing barriers to agricultural trade. Nations that want to see an end to farm subsidies and c... Continued...

Europe Is Set to End Threat on Steel Tariffs
New York Times | September 25, 2002 | By Paul Meller BRUSSELS - The European Union is poised to drop its threat of rapid retaliation against United States tariffs on imported steel imposed in the spring, senior officials said today. The European Commission, the union's executive body, has draf... Continued...

EC Recommends Dropping Steel Retaliation Against US
Agence France Presse | September 25, 2002 The European Commission, the European Union executive body, has recommended that the 15 EU member nations drop any immediate retaliatory measures against US tariffs on steel imports, diplomats said Wednesday. "Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy has propo... Continued...

Cuban Minister Urges Head Of World Trade Organization To Focus On Third World
BBC | September 24, 2002 Havana: Cuban Government Minister Ricardo Cabrisas met with new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Thai Supachai Panitchpakdi. The meeting took place in the Swiss city of Geneva, when the Cuban Minister was on his way to Brussels, Belgium, to particip... Continued...

US Hits Out at Trade Partners in WTO Farm Talks
Agence France Presse | September 25, 2002 The United States on Wednesday lamented that its main trading partners had failed to present detailed proposals on how far they are ready to go in cutting farming subsidies. US officials warned the "clock is ticking" in World Trade Organisation (WTO) ... Continued...

China""s New Economy Begins on the Farm; Growers Bear Burden of Being First as Trade Brings Opportunity, Risk
Washington Post | By Peter S. Goodman | September 25, 2002 From the half-acre plot where his family has grown wheat for two centuries, Liu Shubing watches the construction of a superhighway with equal parts concern and calculation. The price of his crop is falling, and those six concrete lanes ar... Continued...

Think Tank Proposes FTA with EU, Mexico
Korea Herald | By Yoo Cheong-mo | September 25, 2002 Korea stands ready to open free trade agreement (FTA) talks with the European Union and Mexico in a bid to better adapt to the new global trend of regional economic integration, a state-run think tank said yesterday. "The Korean government i... Continued...

Monday, September 23, 2002

Perilous Lessons: The Impact of the WTO Services Agreement (GATS) on Canada""s Public Education System
Book Release | By Jim Grieshaber-Otto and Matthew Sanger | Released August, 2002 This major study provides a primer on threats the WTO treaty already imposes and using highly plausible scenarios, describes how it could undermine public education in the future. The authors dissect federal governm... Continued...

Friday, September 20, 2002

EU, Asian Leaders to Tackle Trade Rows During Summit
Dow Jones | September 20, 2002 BRUSSELS - Asian and European Union leaders will clash over South Korean subsidies for shipbuilders and chipmakers and China's ban on some imports of European cosmetics at Monday's summit in Copenhagen. The gathering's primary focus is politics. The 25 leaders wa... Continued...

Thursday, September 19, 2002

A Civil War within a Trade Dispute
New York Times | September 19, 2002 | By Edmund L. Andrews WASHINGTON - What began as an obscure trade dispute between Europe and the United States has turned into a political brawl over $100 billion in corporate tax breaks that pits many of America's biggest companies against one another. In ... Continued...

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Fox Stresses Importance Of Investment In Water Resources
Corporate Mexico | September 18, 2002 ABSTRACT: President Vicente Fox has made it clear that to deal with the severe water crisis facing Mexico, some 22 billion pesos (US$ 2.20 billion) will have to be invested annually over the next 25 years under a scheme in the government, private sector and ... Continued...

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Bove Goes Back To Court For Trashing French Crops
Rueters | By Nicolas Fichot | September 17, 2002 TOULOUSE, France - Radical farmer Jose Bove will return to court this week alongside eight activists accused of destroying a field of genetically modified (GMO) oilseed plants in southwest France two years ago. Bove, who completed a three ... Continued...

East Asia Nations Call For Progress In Global Trade Talks
Japan Economic Newswire | September 14, 2002 Economic ministers from 13 East Asian nations on Saturday called for progress in multilateral trade liberalization talks being held under the World Trade Organization (WTO). The ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (... Continued...

US Vows To Appeal Wto Dumping Decision
Agence France Presse | September 17, 2002 The United States vowed Monday to appeal a WTO panel's ruling against US firms receiving a portion of the anti-dumping duties levied on their foreign competitors. "We disagree with the panel's conclusions and we intend to appeal," said US Trade Repre... Continued...

Asean Rejects US Call For NGO Access To WTO Dispute Process
The Business Times Singapore | September 17, 2002 TWO Asean trade diplomats have rejected a United States proposal to open up the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement mechanism to public scrutiny, and to allow non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to offer unsolicited briefs as friends ... Continued...

U.S. Turns Up Heat In Trade War
National Post | By Peter Morton | September 17, 2002 WASHINGTON - The wheat wars between Canada and the United States has flared again, with a demand by American farmers that more than US $100-million a year of new duties be imposed on Canadian imports. The move by the farmers, who say the w... Continued...

Parmesan At Center Of A Food Fight Between U.S., Europe
Chicago Tribune | By David Holley |September 17, 2002 Tuesday For Andrea Bonati, producing Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese is more than a profession. "When I was a kid, I used to steal it from where my mother kept it," he says of the cheese better known around the world as Parmesan. "It's an addict... Continued...

Friday, September 13, 2002

WTO Ag Deal Unlikely without Developing Country Concessions
Inside US Trade | September 13, 2002 Reaching an agreement on how to negotiate cuts in agricultural tariffs in the World Trade Organization will require a change in the U.S. agricultural negotiating proposal to meet the demands of developing countries to make lesser commitments, the president of ... Continued...

Indonesia Told to Quit from Cairns Group
Jakarta Post | September 13, 2002 | A'an Suryana Indonesia must quit from the Cairns Group of agricultural exporting nations, a local non-governmental organization (NGO) said on Thursday. The NGO, called the Institute for Global Justice, argued that Indonesia had no longer been considered an a... Continued...

Split on GIs Overshadow Market Access Talks at WTO""s Agriculture Committee
BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest | Vol. 6, Number 30 | September 13, 2002 Members met from 2-6 September at the Committee on Agriculture (CoA) to continue talks on market access as well as to prepare for the special (negotiating) session on domestic support scheduled to be held end of this month.... Continued...

CAF Boon or Bane
SDPI | By Roshan Malik Government Policy Package for Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) is a matter of great controversy within the government circles, civil society organizations and small farmer groups. Its advocates claim that the policy will bring foreign investors, latest machinery and new ... Continued...

FSC/EU Publishes Products that Could Be Subject to Countermeasures
EU Trade News Flash Announcement | September 13, 2002 Brussels - Foreign Sales Corporations (FSC): On 13 September 2002, the Commission published a list of products that could be subject to countermeasures. This list will be submitted to European industry for consideration and follows authorisati... Continued...

Thursday, September 12, 2002

EU Executives Prepare First Draft Of List For $4 Billion In Trade Sanctions Against U.S.
Associated Press | September 12, 2002 U.S. products ranging from cereals to nuclear reactors are on a draft list prepared by the European Union's head office for potential trade sanctions totaling up to dlrs 4 billion. The list, to be published by the European Commission Friday, follows a ru... Continued...

Venezuela And United States Discuss 20-Year Oil Agreement
Associated Press Worldstream | September 12, 2002 The United States and Venezuela are discussing a pact to guarantee Venezuelan oil exports for 20 years. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere and is among the top four oil suppliers to the United States. The South A... Continued...

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Where To Go After Johannesburg? Cancun or Bust!
International Forum on Globalization | Victor Menotti | September 6, 2002 Buried in the Johannesburg Declaration is a short sentence affirming that the fate of almost every enforceable environmental agreement that the United Nations has produced since the original Stockholm conference will n... Continued...

Success with Plants Down on the ""Pharm""
Farm Progress|By Willie Vogt|9/10/2002 Turning from commodity crops to higher-value specialty crops that could have pharmaceutical and high-value health benefits are a dream of many farmers. A North Carolina company says this week that it's seeing success with some test plots of specialty crops... Continued...

Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a Threat to World Peace
MSNBC | Newsweek | 10 September, 2002 In a rare interview, the South African demands that George W. Bush win United Nations support before attacking Iraq Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the world's most respected statesman. Sentenced to life in prison on desolate Robben Island in 1964 for advocat... Continued...

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Sugar Group Tells USTR: Global Sugar Policies Must Be Addressed in WTO, Not FTAA
PRNewswire | September 10, 2002 WASHINGTON -- A representative of the American sugar industry testified today that, while the U.S. sugar industry supports trade reforms through the World Trade Organization, it "cannot endorse the strategy of addressing sugar distortions in the narrow and limited ... Continued...

Europe Fires the Latest Shot in Battle with U.S. over Tariffs
New York Times | September 10, 2002 | By Edmund L. Andrews WASHINGTON - The European Commission has compiled a list of hundreds of American products, from cereals and soybeans to clothing and steel, on which it may impose retaliatory tariffs if the United States refuses to eliminate a tax break f... Continued...

Monday, September 9, 2002

An Open Letter to America
The Observer/UK | By Ariel Dorfman Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you. As the smoke was swallowing Manhattan and the buildings fell and the terror spread into the farthest recesses of your land and your hearts, my hopes for you, America. While around the world many of the pas... Continued...

WSSD Both Attacks and Abets "Global Apartheid"
Foreign Policy in Focus | By Patrick Bond | 6 September 2002 Officials of the United Nations and the host South African government looking hard in the mirror this weekend will have to judge the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) a failure. The only remarkable step forward for human an... Continued...

Agricultural Nations Launch Campaign For Global Trade Overhaul
Agence France Presse | By JACK TAYLOR | September 9, 2002 The Cairns Group of agricultural exporting nations has called for the world's industrialised economies to increase quotas on farm imports by up to five times current levels. The proposal, lodged with the World Trade Organization (WTO)... Continued...

Dry Bulk - EU Quota Plans Alarm Top Grain Producers
Lloyd's List | By John Zarocostas | September 9, 2002 CHIEF farm trade negotiators of the US, Canada and Australia have urged the European Union not to go ahead with plans to modify its import regime for grains, a step that could effectively shut out millions of tonnes of common and durum wheat,... Continued...

US to Push for World Steel Trade Reform
Reuters | September 9, 2002 | By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON - The United States will propose to eliminate international steel subsidies and trade barriers during talks this week in Paris, a U.S. Commerce Department official said on Monday. The four-point U.S. plan comes just six months after Presi... Continued...

Friday, September 6, 2002

Freer World Trade System Better Than Official Aid For Poor: New WTO Chief
Agence France Presse | By EILEEN NG | September 5, 2002 A freer world trade system would do more to help poor countries than official aid from industrialised nations, newly installed global trade supremo Supachai Panitchpakdi said here Thursday. Supachai, who took over as director general of t... Continued...

Shaping Up for Seattle at the Beach
The Guardian (London) | By Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott | September 4, 2002 Shaping up for Seattle at the beach: Retiring WTO chief Mike Moore is leaving a demoralised staff to deal with an escalating transatlantic trade war Farewell interviews by senior diplomats are usually modelled ... Continued...

Earth Summit Betrayal
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | September 3, 2002 After nine days of talks, the Earth Summit is now drawing to a close. We have analysed the final text and found precisely TWO new and specific targets in the whole thing: 1. To halve by 2015 the proportion of people who...do not have access to basic ... Continued...

Africa""s Civil Society Backs Zambia For Rejecting Gm Maize
Panafrican News Agency (PANA) | September 6, 2002 Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Africa's civil society groups that participated in the just ended World Summit on Sustainable Development say they fully support Zambia for rejecting genetically modified maize, describing the food as contaminated. In ... Continued...

Brazil Puts Soybean Case on Hold, Set to Challenge U.S. Cotton Subsidies
Inside US Trade | September 6, 2002 Brazil has bumped a World Trade Organization complaint against U.S. cotton subsidies ahead of a similar complaint it was considering on U.S. soybeans, in part due to a rebound in world soybean prices this year that makes it more difficult for Brazil to win a ca... Continued...

EU Conditions WTO Agriculture Concessions on Non-Trade Demands
Inside US Trade | September 6, 2002 The European Union this week laid out three demands not related to trade in the World Trade Organization agriculture negotiations, which it said must be met before it can make any concessions on cutting agricultural subsidies and market access barriers. The EU ... Continued...

WTO Ag Chairman Warns Continued Divisions May Result in Missed Deadline
Inside US Trade | September 6, 2002 The chairman of the World Trade Organization's Agriculture Committee this week strongly suggested the group is in danger of missing a deadline for agreeing on how to negotiate future market access as informal talks failed to bridge the deep divisions among memb... Continued...

Thursday, September 5, 2002

WTO Chief Would Like to Finish Doha Round in 2004
Agence France Presse | September 5, 2002 | By Eileen Ng Freer world trade system better than official aid for poor: new WTO chief JOHANNESBURG - A freer world trade system would do more to help poor countries than official aid from industrialised nations, newly installed global trade supremo S... Continued...

Earth Summit Collapses After Powell Condemns Zimbabwe
The Australian | Amanda Hodge | September 5, 2002 THE World Summit on Sustainable Development collapsed in disarray yesterday after US Secretary of State Colin Powell denounced Zimbabwe for its lack of respect for human rights and southern African states for refusing genetically modified US food a... Continued...

Wednesday, September 4, 2002

Powell Heckled as He Defends U.S. Commitment to Environment, the Poor at World Summit
Associated Press | September 4, 2002 | By Alexandra Zavis, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Raucous protests broke out on the last day of the World Summit Wednesday as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell defended America's record on the environment and helping the developing ... Continued...

Sustainable Development: R.I.P.
The Earth Summit's Deathblow to Sustainable Development CorpWatch | September 4, 2002 | By Kenny Bruno Johannesburg -- Sustainable Development is dead. It's demise came, ironically, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. It's not that the phrase wasn't invoked. It was, ad nauseum. ... Continued...

Key World Summit Initiatives
Associated Press | September 4, 2002 Partial list of agreements reached and initiatives launched at the World Summit for Sustainable Development, as compiled by the United Nations: WATER & SANITATION Commitment: - Halve the proportion of people without access to sanitation by 2015, match... Continued...

Confidential Cabinet Document Reveals Canada""s Double-Speak In Johannesburg
Council of Canadians and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | September 3, 2002 OTTAWA, ONTARIO - A Memorandum to Cabinet, obtained by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), shows that the Canadian government is looking at what amounts to a fast ... Continued...

Dr. Supachai""s ""Four Pillars""
Washington Trade Daily | September 4, 2002 Geneva - The new Director General of the World Trade Organization, Supachai Panitchpakdi, said on Monday that he would embark on what he described as "four pillars" to improve the image and functioning of the global trade body during his three-year tenur... Continued...

Tuesday, September 3, 2002

Earth Wins: First Setback for WTO Since Seattle
Greenpeace | 02 September 2002 Summit removes language that would have put trade first, Earth second. SOUTH AFRICA/Johannesburg -- Yesterday evening, while the industry lobbyists were eating sushi and drinking champagne around a spectacular swimming pool, Greenpeace and other non-governmenta... Continued...

Russia Announces Plan to Ratify Kyoto Protocol as Leaders Take the Podium at World Summit
Associated Press | September 3, 2002 | By Alexandra Zavis, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - As negotiators finished a global plan to tackle poverty and save the environment, Russia said Tuesday it would soon ratify the Kyoto Protocol - a move that would bring the key climate c... Continued...

Oxfam Condemns ""Tragic"" Summit
BBC News | September 3, 2002 The development deal due to be adopted shortly at the world summit in Johannesburg offers only "crumbs for the poor", the international aid agency Oxfam has said. Agency spokesman Andrew Hewitt said the majority of the world's leaders had "lacked the guts and will"... Continued...

Warnings of Disaster Amid the Promise of Success
The Guardian (UK) | September 3, 2002 | By John Vidal While the announcement of a final agreement at the earth summit will inevitably be portrayed as a success today, there was little comfort to be gleaned from the stream of world leaders who turned up to express dismay at the deteriorating state... Continued...

Ploughed Under: WTO and the Small Farmer
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) | By Anuradha Mittal OAKLAND - On January 1, 1995, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was established with a commitment to raise standards of living and ensure full employment by expanding trade, while upholding the objective of sustainable d... Continued...

Summit Debates Modified Food, Famine
Associated Press | September 3, 2002 | By Joseph B. Verrengia, AP Science Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The debate is no longer academic. Genetically modified foods mean life or death for millions of starving Africans. The United Nations estimates 12.8 million people in six countries in ... Continued...

World Bank, IMF Protests Planned
Associated Press | September 3, 2002 WASHINGTON -- Anti-globalization demonstrators, relatively subdued since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, are preparing a clamorous return to the streets this month when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meet. Protest organizers said Tuesday they e... Continued...

Putting Poison In OUr Backyards
The Cambridge Reporter | By Carole Payne | September 3, 2002 The "free trade not fair trade" of today's neo-Conservative-Liberalism under NAFTA'S Chapter 11 facilitates all governments' inability to protect their citizens from chemical toxicity and thus personal health and well being. Rare c... Continued...

Labour Leaders from Around World Kick Off Global Campaign for Quality Public Services
Global Campaign for Quality Public Services | September 3, 2002 OTTAWA, Sept. 3 Who? ---- Labour leaders from 140 countries attending 27th World Congress of Public Services International launch Global Campaign for Quality Public Services What? ----- CANADA POST ... Continued...

Monday, September 2, 2002

World Summit Agrees on Poverty Plan
Associated Press | September 2, 2002 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - With world leaders pushing for action, negotiators at the World Summit agreed Monday on a plan geared to help the globe's poorest people while reversing environmental declines. Agreement came as participants resolved the last ma... Continued...

Major Deals at World Summit Reflect Interests of Rich Nations
Associated Press | September 2, 2002 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The United States and other industrial powers heavily influenced the final wording of the world summit action plan to fight poverty and preserve the environment. Here's a look at the key issues of the plan, which will be formally a... Continued...

WTO""s Supachai Lays Out Four-Point Work Program
WTO | September 2, 2002 WTO Director-General, Supachai Panitchpakdi's first press conference, 2 September, 2002, Geneva. Director-General First of all, let me say how much honoured I feel to have been given the opportunity to serve this important organization. It is also a source of major p... Continued...

WTO Welcomes New Chief In Historic Step For Developing World
Agence France Presse | By KATE MILLAR | September 2, 2002 Former Thai deputy prime minister and commerce minister Supachai Panitchpakdi on Monday became the first developing country official to head the World Trade Organisation. Taking over from New Zealand's Mike Moore, the 55-year-old Thai... Continued...

Sunday, September 1, 2002

World Summit Tackles Key Issues
Associated Press | September 1, 2002 | By Ravi Nessman, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Officials at the World Summit expressed optimism Sunday that agreement could be reached on contentious issues involving climate change, world trade and enriching the world's poor. "We h... Continued...

Saturday, August 31, 2002

Geopolitics of Jo""burg Protests:Independent Left Beats Ruling Party
Znet Commentary | By Patrick Bond | 31 August 2002 For ninety years, we've waited to see the combined geographical and political implications of locating an urban bantustan in a small block of land in northeast Johannesburg called Alexandra Township. Today was breakout day, with South Africa's mo... Continued...

Friday, August 30, 2002

China Presses for Regional Trade Bloc to Stymie West
Taipei Times, Associated Press | August 30, 2002 KUALA LUMPUR - China's top trade negotiator said yesterday that his country and Southeast Asian nations must build a free trade area to avoid becoming "victims" of Western trade protectionism. Long Yongtu, China's vice minister of foreign trade,... Continued...

US to Study Impact of Eliminating Farm Tariffs
Reuters | August 30, 2002 WASHINGTON - In a move likely to raise concern among some U.S. farm groups, the Bush administration has asked for a confidential study on the impact of eliminating tariffs on farm goods from 33 countries in North and South America, an independent U.S. trade panel said on... Continued...

Trading Places
The Economist | August 30, 2002 The World Trade Organisation has ruled that the European Union can impose trade sanctions worth $4 billion on America because of disputed tax concessions given to American companies. Continuing transatlantic arguments will not help progress in the Doha round of in... Continued...

Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Farm Subsidies in Wealthier Nations Criticized as Helping to Create Hardships for Third World Farmers
National Public Radio | By Bill Harris | August 28, 2002 RENEE MONTAGNE, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development this week in Johannesburg, one of the most contentious issues seems at first to be out of place. Farm su... Continued...

Monday, August 26, 2002

Mexico Announces Agricultural Shield Program
Food Chemical News, Volume 44, Number 28 | August 26, 2002 | Steven Lewis Mexico's ministers of agriculture and commerce have announced an "agriculture shield" program aimed at ensuring that the country's farmers are not harmed by unfair competition from the United States. In justifying the sh... Continued...

Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Canada: Trade Union
Legal Week Global | August 20, 2002 Canada, more than any developed country, is a trade-dependent nation. A staggering 45% of its gross domestic product is directly linked to trading activities. Far from being just hewers of wood and carriers of water, Canadian businesses export some of the worl... Continued...

Thursday, August 15, 2002

Global Capitalism Hit By A Major Crisis
The Nation (Thailand) | By Walden Bello | August 15, 2002 The first meeting of Asian Social Movements took place against a background of what is shaping up as the worst crisis of global capitalism since the Great Depression 70 years ago. Charting our direction for the future is greatly dependent ... Continued...

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Nafta Panel Deals Setback to Methanex in MTBE Dispute
Chemical Week | By KARA SISSELL | August 14, 2002 An international trade tribunal has ruled that Methanex has limited grounds to challenge California's decision to phase-out the gasoline additive methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) by December 31, 2003. A panel for the United Nations Commission on In... Continued...

Friday, August 9, 2002

Subsidising US Farmers under AoA
Times News Network | August 9, 2002 | Biswajit Dhar In what can be construed as a decisive move to gain a stranglehold over the ongoing negotiations for the review of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, the US has put forth a cleverly worded proposal to the Committee on Agriculture. This proposal h... Continued...