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U.S. Country-of-Origin Food Labeling Rules Illegal, WTO Says
Bloomberg BusinessWeek November 20, 2011 By Jennifer M. Freedman and Eric Martin Original Source (Updates with comment from Canadian trade minister in eighth paragraph.) Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — U.S. country-of-origin labeling provisions violate global trade rules and unjustly harm agricultural commerce, World Trade Organization judges ruled, backing complaints by Canada and Mexico. The U.S. requires [...]
Upcoming trade talks must focus on right to adequate food, UN expert stresses
United Nations News Service November 16, 2011 Original Source 16 November 2011 – The right to adequate food must be at the top of the agenda of next month’s global trade talks, an independent United Nations expert stressed today, calling for bold policies to ensure food security. “The world is in the midst of a [...]
Marry the TPP to the WTO
The Wall Street Journal November 13, 2011 By JAMES BACCHUS Original Source The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a tremendous opportunity to advance free trade, but getting it to the finish line will also be a challenge. The agreement could proceed more smoothly and accomplish more for the region and the world if it is placed within [...]
Plan B: A Global Trade Bunt
Back when I was a full-time farmer, I would trade in my used John Deere tractor for a new one every four or five years. I would bargain with my dealer. Sometimes I made out well. Other times he drove a hard bargain–and I had to take what I could get. The trade diplomats [...]
Searching For A Newsworthy Deal
Police in Switzerland had to break up a violent rally last weekend when anti-globalization protestors burned cars and smashed windows to express their objections to the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting. These acts of hooliganism are appalling–but they’re also nothing like what I witnessed a decade ago, when agitators disrupted the WTO’s 1999 meetings in [...]
Pirates of the Gulf
International Herald Tribune November 18, 2008Over the weekend, Somali pirates undertook their most daring mission to date – seizing the MV Sirius Star, an oil supertanker owned by Saudi Aramco. Seized some 450 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya, this brazen act represents a major threat to both the world’s energy security as well [...]
UN Calls For Review On Biofuel Subsidies
The Associated Press By Marta Falconi Original Publish Date: October 7, 2008 Rome – A U.N. agency on Tuesday called for an urgent review of agriculture and biofuel subsidies and trade barriers, saying their removal would increase opportunities for developing countries to take advantage of rising biofuel demand. Imposing price controls and export bans prevents [...]
Biofuels and food security
FAO Original Publish Date: October 7, 2008 Biofuels and food security – FAO’s new edition of its annual publication, ‘The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2008′, recommends that biofuel policies and subsidies should be urgently reviewed in order to preserve the goal of world food security, protect poor farmers, promote broad-based rural development and [...]
EU Opens Tariff Suit Against India
The Wall Street Journal John W. Miller Original Publish Date: September 22, 2008 Brussels – The European Union opened a new complaint Monday against India at the World Trade Organization over high import tariffs on wine and spirits levied by some Indian states. The EU suspended a previous suit against federal Indian tariffs in July [...]
Russia’s WTO entry not close – U.S. Commerce chief
Ellinghuysen & Reuters By Doug Palmer Original Publish Date: August 12, 2008 Washington (Reuters) – A top Bush administration official on Tuesday played down any connection between Russia’s military action in Georgia and Moscow’s long-term bid to join the World Trade Organization. "We’ve worked with Russia in terms of the WTO accession and they still [...]
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