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Remaining Cautious about the Precautionary Principle PDF Print E-mail
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Posted by Ross Korves   
Thursday, 21 September 2006
The U.S. and the EU have had fundamental trade policy differences on hormones in beef and the use of biotechnology in food production for over ten year. The EU has been steadfast in its use of the precautionary principle in its regulatory approach on food and environmental issues. In an analysis for the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies titled “Trading Precaution: The Precautionary Principle and the WTO” Sabrina Shaw of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization and Risa Schwartz, Counsel for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Canada, explore how the precautionary principle has developed and how it is used in the WTO.

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The Generalized System of Preferences PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006
As the trade policy debate has focused on the suspended WTO negotiations and efforts on bilateral trade agreements, reauthorization of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) has received little attention. The system was created in the Trade Act of 1974 to provide opportunities for developing countries to increase exports to the U.S., and its latest reauthorization in 2002 expires on December 31 of this year.

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Opportunities and Challenges for Agricultural Biotechnology PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 07 September 2006
Predicting the exact direction of developments in agricultural biotechnology is impossible. What is certain is that federal regulations and other government actions will have a major impact. To help anticipate the future, the USDA Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture developed a report titled “Opportunities and Challenges in Agricultural Biotechnology: The Decade Ahead” that USDA released in late August.

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Seeds for Change PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 31 August 2006
Publication of research from Mexico on the insertion of a gene from the Newcastle disease virus into seed corn for production of feed for chickens to develop immunity to the disease is the latest example of the ability of biotechnology to increase productivity of agricultural producers while being compatible with existing production practices. The research was led by Octavio Guerrero-Andrade of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Guanajuato, Mexico and published in August 2006 in Transgenic Research.

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ASEAN Economic Ministers Push Freer Trade PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 24 August 2006
With the Doha Round of WTO trade policy negotiations suspended, a logical question is what happens next. The Economic Ministers of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia gave a clear answer by committing to achieving internal free trade by 2015 rather than the earlier target of 2020. This is partly in response to the growing economic power of their two big neighbors, China and India. Southeast Asia is a likely place for strong economic growth for the foreseeable future, and the free trade actions by the ASEAN Economic Ministers explain why that is true.

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