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Govt would defend Zespri export arrangement if what growers want

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:33:07 GMT

The government says it will fight to retain New Zealand's kiwifruit export arrangement, as long as growers want it.
Source: TVNZ

Govt sops likely for drug exports avoiding Europe

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:27:50 GMT

The Centre may give sops to drug exporters for shipments to Africa and Latin America through a route that would avoid passing through Europe, while it prepares to drag the European Union (EU) to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over seizure of...
Source: Business Standard

Latha Jishnu: The WIPO knife edge

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:58:01 GMT

Officials are working at cross purposes in the apex patent body and undermining Indias position on critical issues For well over a decade, the chirpy sounding acronym for the WTO’s agreement on intellectual property (IP) rights, TRIPS, has rolled...
Source: Business Standard

Bananas deal likely to be too late for WTO talks: source

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:45:42 GMT

AFP - A deal to end Europe's long-running trade war over taxes on banana imports will not come before World Trade Organization talks next week in Switzerland, an informed source said Wednesday.
Source: France 24

How Capitalism Failed Us

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:16:47 GMT

(CBS) Rebecca Solnit is the author of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster and co-author with her brother David of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle.
Source: CBS News

Time to kill off Doha | John Hilary

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:16:33 GMT

Monday 30 November marks the 10th anniversary of the Battle in Seattle, the day in 1999 when 100,000 protesters took to the streets and prevented the World Trade Organisation from launching its millennium round of free trade talks.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Copenhagen: the next Seattle?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:32:31 GMT

Despite Müller's protestations that he wishes to avoid violence, the Danish authorities are assuming the worst -- and outfitting the police with far-reaching new powers.
Source: Foreign Policy | Passport

From Seattle to Copenhagen: Climate Change Summit Becomes a Target for Protest

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:43:31 GMT

A number of groups are planning to hold demonstrations and protests in Copenhagen during next month's climate summit. Is global warming the new globalization?
Source: Spiegel Online

Quoted in 'Air tanker: Pentagon should not use WTO decision against Airbus in process, says official'

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:01:10 GMT

Ashton Carter said in Everything Alabama:

The only action we can take at this point ... (is to make sure) that the taxpayer is held harmless in respect of any damages that end up being awarded in any of the cases before the WTO

Quoted in 'Indian Government To File Case Against EU To WTO'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:26:43 GMT

said in Pharmaceutical Business Review:

We have started working on the documentation required in the case. We are likely to be in a position to file the case at the WTO by February. Brazil and India are likely to file a joint case against the EU on the issue.

Photo from Getty Images

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:16:43 GMT

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 4: In this handout image supplied by the IMF, World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (R) prior to the International Monetar...

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:38:58 GMT

World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy (L) talks with International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn prior to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center...

New World Order Monetary System

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:50:57 GMT