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Brazil’s Congress approves controversial forest law
Publication — BBC News Date — April 26, 2012 Website — www.bbc.co.uk The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved controversial legislation that eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Brazil’s powerful farmers’ lobby argues that the changes will promote sustainable food production. But environmentalists say the new forest code will be [...]
Japan’s Bid to Join Asian Trade Pact Faces a Leery U.S.
The Wall Street Journal February 7, 2012 By Yuka Hayashi and Tom Barkley Japan’s push to enter a broad Asia-Pacific trade pact faces one of its toughest challenges this week: acceptance from Washington. Opposition from American manufacturers and unions, combined with doubts about Tokyo’s ability to deliver on promises, could create obstacles. Japanese trade officials [...]
‘Murky protectionism’ on the rise – but no trade war
Sydney Morning Herald January 10, 2012 By Chris Zappone At the outset of the global financial crisis, the world’s leaders pledged to resist calls to shield their local economies in order to prevent a trade war that could further damage global growth. Four years on, with China slowing, Europe heading into recession and a political [...]
MERCOSUR Increases Tariffs on Industrial Products
The four member countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay of MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South) have agreed to increase import tariffs to 35 percent, the maximum allowed under WTO rules, on 100 industrial products until December of 2014 to protect domestic industries. Their manufacturing companies have been under import pressures from Asian competitors and [...]
Food security and the WTO
Foreign Policy in Focus December 21, 2011 By Karen Hansen-Kuhn Original Source At a World Social Forum event in 2006, Walden Bello warned that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was careening down a track to disaster. Civil society needed to insist that negotiators pull back before the Round went off a [...]
South American Trade Group Raises Import Tariffs
The Wall Street Journal December 21, 2011 By SHANE ROMIG Original Source MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay–Members of South America’s Mercosur trade bloc decided at its annual summit Tuesday to slap steep tariffs on a host of cheap imports to shield the region from a slowing global economy. The members agreed to impose a 35% tariff on 100 [...]
A small reason to be cheerful
The Economist November 19, 2011 Original Source WITH thunderclouds looming over the trans-Atlantic economy, it was easy to miss a bright piece of news last weekend from the other crucible of world trade, the Pacific Rim. In Honolulu, where Barack Obama hosted a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, Canada, Japan and Mexico expressed interest in joining [...]
A small reason to be cheerful
The Economist November 19, 2011 Original Source WITH thunderclouds looming over the trans-Atlantic economy, it was easy to miss a bright piece of news last weekend from the other crucible of world trade, the Pacific Rim. In Honolulu, where Barack Obama hosted a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, Canada, Japan and Mexico expressed interest in joining [...]
Russia Accession to the WTO
After 18 years of negotiations, the WTO Working Party on Russian accession to the WTO has approved an agreement. It must now be passed by the Eighth WTO Ministerial Conference meeting on December 15-17 in Geneva. The Russian Federation government will then have until June 15, 2012 to approve the agreement. Thirty days after the [...]
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