In advance of a major speech on the Doha round by European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, the top EU official in Geneva this week told member states the that EU has no plans to put forward a new offer to reduce its farm tariffs.
Europe may suffer a bruising next month when a world trade panel delivers its long-awaited verdict on whether the EU's six-year blockade on biotech crops and foods was tantamount to a protectionist trade barrier.
Japan plans to resist pressure from major food exporting nations such as the United States to reduce protection for its farmers in global trade talks, its agriculture minister said.
contents are: 1) What happened in Hong Kong?; 2) Agriculture: the art of deception; 3) Services: another win for corporations; 4) NAMA: reducing development to a formula; 5) Development Package: a slap in the face; 6) The Way Forward: asking the questions; and 7) Documents
Implementation of a new U.S.-Central American trade pact could be delayed by U.S. demands that its partners tighten their rules on cheap drugs that compete with the products of U.S. pharmaceutical firms.
Press Release: La Via Campesina welcomes the release of 11 anti-WTO protestors today by the Kwun Tong Court in Hong Kong. However two members of the Korean Peasants League and one member of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions are still charged with unlawful and unrightful assembly following the December 17 protest organised by La Via Campesina against the WTO Ministerial Conference.
