Archive - Jan 2007

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African Trade Ministers at their recent meeting in Addis

The European Union and the United States are a bit further apart than they were a week ago on settling their differences in the agriculture Doha Development Agenda negotiations.

South American agricultural powers Argentina and Brazil have joined Canada in a complaint against the United States over what they claim are illegal government handouts to American corn growers, trade officials said Monday.

Trade ministers from developing countries meeting in Davos this week should resist pressure to restart the stalled WTO trade talks because there is next to nothing on offer that will help reduce global poverty, said ActionAid today.

On 6 December 2006, the EU Commission announced that it had finalised three draft mandates for negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with ASEAN, Korea and India, together with two mandates for negotiations with Central America and the Andean Community.

Trade negotiators from the US and European Union are edging a deal that could restart stalled world trade talks, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The Group of 33 developing countries in the WTO has warned the World Bank that its revised draft paper on agricultural special products (SPs) is fundamentally flawed in its assumptions and methodology and could have adverse consequences for the Doha Round negotiations.

Pirates and licensed trawlers are pillaging the world's oceans, while proposals on the table for trade ministers meeting in Switzerland next week could prove the final blow to sea life, Greenpeace said on Friday.

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