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Argentina blasted at WTO for its trade-restrictive measures and lack of transparency
Publication — MercoPress Date — March 30, 2012 Website — http://en.mercopress.com Argentina received a barrage of criticism at the World Trade Organization on Friday where the United States, European Union, Japan and 10 other countries accused it of tying imports up in red tape. They also requested Argentina provide a detailed written explanation of why [...]
Genetically engineered salmon facing fierce opposition
Boston Herald February 20, 2012 By Adrianne Appel AquaBounty Technologies, a Waltham company that has created a genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, is treading water while it waits for the Food and Drug Administration to decide whether it can sell its fast-growing fish to the public. The already lengthy federal approval process has grown longer and [...]
Farming community seeks genetically modified corn
The News International (Pakistan) February 17, 2012 LAHORE: The farming community of Sahiwal has urged the government to approve the genetically modified (GM) corn, which is being planted successfully in various countries, for commercial plantation in Pakistan. The farmers of corn growing areas made this demand during a meeting with the senior officials of Monsanto [...]
Low Level Presence of Biotech Crops in Export Shipments
The disagreement earlier this year between Syngenta and Bunge North America over its decision to not accept in its marketing system Syngenta’s Agrisure Viptera biotech corn that had not yet been approved for use in China is part of a larger issue of asynchronous authorization (approval in some countries, but not in others) for the [...]
Trade Pacts Advance in Congress
The Wall Street Journal October 11, 2011 By TOM BARKLEY And SIOBHAN HUGHES Original Source WASHINGTON–Congress on Tuesday continued a march toward midweek passage of free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, trade deals that were first negotiated more than four years ago. The three Bush-era trade deals have been put on the fast [...]
Move quickly on trade
The Miami Herald October 5, 2011 By The Miami Herald Editorial Original Source OUR OPINION: With standoff resolved, Congress should waste no time approving new pacts It’s taken seemingly forever to get Congress and the administration to make a deal over three pending free trade agreements, but now that the political standoff has apparently been [...]
Sheely: Commentary on salmon in the Anchorage Daily News
A recent column by TATT board member Ted Sheely is in the Anchorage Daily News. Progress, jobs at stake in salmon dispute was posted in the opinion section of the paper October 5. Sheely’s piece appeared initially at Truth About Trade & Technology September 22 as Fish Tales in Washington. Sheely makes the argument for [...]
An Olympic-Sized Economic Freeze Out
The International Olympic Committee is the latest entity to jump on this economic bandwagon, having selected the South Korean resort of Pyeongchang as the host city for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The decision means the Koreans will invest as much as $6 billion on infrastructure over the next seven years and another $1.5 billion on [...]
Big Sky Hopes
A place called Big Sky can find room for anything but small ambitions. Yet the Asia-Pacific trade ministers who gathered at this resort community in Montana last week sounded distressingly pessimistic. In a statement joined by U.S. trade representative Ron Kirk, they expressed “collective deep concern” over the fate of the World Trade Organization’s [...]
Sen. Baucus vs. Free Trade
“In today’s world, we seek not to build, but to tear down the economic walls that divide us,” he said, in remarks about the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC). Last week, Sen. Baucus took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to advocate approval of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. “Trade is critical to [...]
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