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Shocking new research reveals that more than 4,000 farmers have killed themselves in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh since the

The chairman of the World Trade Organization's negotiating group on NAMA has been holding private consultations with key member governments to gauge the possibilities for advancing the stalled talks.

Australia has notified the World Trade Organization of its farm subsidy spending for the 2003-2004 marketing year.

Trade officials in Geneva May 23 were stunned by the news that the chairman of the WTO's agriculture negotiations, New Zealand ambassador Tim Groser, has resigned as New Zealand's ambassador to the WTO, calling into question his continued leadership at a sensitive stage in the farm trade negotiations.

While some members pressed ahead with proposals for new clarification of the relevant existing GATT rules as well as new obligations, several developing countries voiced their concern that some proposals that have been put forward exceeded the mandate for the negotiations.(M. Khor)

The US Treasury has told the Chinese authorities that they must revalue their currency by at least 10 per cent against the dollar to prevent protectionist legislation in the US Congress.

National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), said that hundreds of millions of dollars a year worth of priority NFTC-member non-agricultural exports to six countries--Brazil, Egypt, India, Malaysia, South Africa, and Turkey--currently face 'uncertain' or 'prohibitive' tariffs.

Trade diplomacy takes a new turn with the election of Pascal Lamy as the new director-general of WTO. His election is said to be an outcome of

'[CAFTA] is going to be a disaster for farmers, in particular in the other member countries,' predicted Robert Scott, director of international programs at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI),

AMSTERDAM, LONDON, BRUSSELS, MONTEVIDEO, WASHINGTON DC, May 23, 2005 - Friends of the Earth International today publishes a revised analysis of the World Trade Organization