and Mr Lamy to persuade G90 ministers that
negotiations on a WTO agreement to facilitate trade would be in poorer countries'
interest also appeared to have won support.
The US, EU and Brazilian officials said efforts by WTO members to assemble by the end
of this month a package for cutting
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This is a very interesting story. The US wants to justify its position
on moral grounds, which supposedly trump trade rules.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/technology/26gamble.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA
[I've filed for intellectual property protection on the subject line, so
don't get any ideas!]
U.S. Files WTO Case Over Soft Drinks
Wednesday March 17, 2004 4:16 AM
By IRA DREYFUSS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States on Tuesday accused Mexico of violating
world trade
Press/371
11 February 2004
GENERAL COUNCIL
WTO chairpersons for 2004
The WTO General Council today (11 February) noted the consensus on the following slate
of names of
chairpersons for WTO bodies:
Chairpersons of WTO Bodies - 2004
General Council Amb. Shotaro OSHIMA (Japan)
Dispute
http://www.aei.org/docLib/200401091_keyfinal19.pdf
The Doha Round and
Financial Services Negotiations
Sydney J. Key
The AEI Press
Publisher for the American Enterprise Institute
WA S H I N G T O N , D . C .
2003
Printed in 2003 by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research,
mean the
beginning of a trade war?
IT IS one of the age-old functions of government: doling out taxpayers'
money to favoured national industries. It is, by contrast, one of the most
laudable functions of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to proscribe and
police these subsidies. It gives members
forum. Without it, the UN would long ago
have gone the way of the League of Nations. At the WTO, all 146 nations
have a theoretical veto, although in practice it would be hard to imagine
Guyana or Tanzania holding out against everybody else.
Self-evidently, this makes decision-making cumbersome
The NYT reports that the US will not let old Europe get contracts for
reconstruction in our new colony. Is that a violation of the WTO?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The NYT reports that the US will not let old Europe get contracts for
reconstruction in our new colony. Is that a violation of the WTO?
--
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Since it seems there are no supremacy clauses within
WTO admits hope of reviving Cancun talks is fading
Larry Elliott
Wednesday December 10, 2003
The Guardian
The stalled global trade talks received a fresh setback yesterday when the
man burdened with rebuilding trust after the breakdown in Cancun admitted
that next week's deadline for resuming
Telmex: WTO Telecoms Ruling Hurts US
Reuters
Wednesday, November 26, 2003; 10:54 PM
By Pablo Garibian
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the billionaire owner of Mexico's
dominant telecoms company, Telmex, said on Wednesday the United States
came out worse in a World Trade Organization (WTO
[this just popped up in my mailbox. from John Jackson's group at
Georgetown University]
GMOs IN THE WTO - COVERAGE OF THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE US AND THE EC
UPDATED
GMOs have become a hotly debated issue in the WTO bodies. We look at the
current dispute between the EC and the U.S. as an example
countries).
USTR and other agencies are currently engaged in an assessment of
the potential impact on U.S. goods and services trade of the May 2004
enlargement of the EU and, in particular, of what compensation the EU
may owe to the United States under WTO rules. Comments from the public
As Jim Morrison said, You cannot petition the Lord
with prayer.
The imperialist game (the Kantian thing in itself in
this case) of squawking, Free-trade! Free-trade! or
the sky will fall, while at the same time muscling
their way into positions of certainty and control over
the trade in
, in the Guardian's trade
supplement, he argued that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) helps us move
from a Hobbesian world of lawlessness into a more Kantian world - perhaps
not exactly of perpetual peace, but at least one where trade relations are
subject to the rule of law.
On Sunday, by treating
I still think that Iraq/Afghanistan was a factor. The US has less to
bribe and its threats probably seem less threatening. Wouldn't it be
wonderful if there were a socialist globalization? But stalemate is
probably the best we can ask for now.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Though we shouldn't underestimate the significance of the fact that
stalemate was led by the government of a socialistic party, PT.
Ahmet Tonak
I still think that Iraq/Afghanistan was a factor. The US has less to
bribe and its threats probably seem less threatening. Wouldn't it be
leading
into the Hotel Zone where the WTO is meeting. This means there is a
large treed median that separates the road. On the right side the
majority mobilized. The Koreans marched in with thick massive rope.
The woman on that front line then began to use wire cutters to
dismantle the fence. After
[quite a novel spin...]
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=138141
Irrelevant WTO
Protesters headed to Cancún in September for the World Trade Organization
(WTO) meeting are wasting their time. But, then again, so are all the
delegates. Why? Because the WTO doesn't actually do
Food fight on the menu for WTO talks in Cancun
Brussels seeks to protect Liebfraumilch from emulators with 600-item list
of exclusively European delicacies
Charlotte Denny
Friday August 29, 2003
The Guardian
Liebfraumilch, the drink that singlehandedly destroyed the reputation of
the German
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/uploadedfiles/Preparations_for_the_Fifth_Session_of_the_M_2.pdf
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=566fArticleId=211881
SA maps out its WTO strategy
August 21, 2003
By Quentin Wray
Johannesburg - South Africa's agroprocessing, steel and coal industries
are at the forefront of its negotiating strategy in the upcoming World
Trade Organisation (WTO
- Original Message -
From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:47 AM
Subject: South Africa: WTO strategy
South Africa is likely to act in consent with two main groups in Cancun
next month: it is a key player in both the African bloc and in the Cairns
Group
- Original Message -
From: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:47 AM
Subject: South Africa: WTO strategy
South Africa is likely to act in consent with two main groups in
Cancun
next month: it is a key player in both the African bloc and in the
Cairns
Farm deal puts WTO talks at risk
Washington-Brussels pact angers developing world by backtracking on
subsidies
Charlotte Denny and Andrew Osborn in Brussels
Thursday August 14, 2003
The Guardian
A battle between the west and the developing world at next month's World
Trade Organisation meeting
the country.
(Montreal is also known for over-zealous police response,
unfortunately.)
Ken.
--- cut here ---
More than 200 arrested after WTO protests
By TU THANH HA
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2003
Montreal More than 200 people were led into custody in a massive
police
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
WTO: Japan Apple Import Rules Illegal
By NAOMI KOPPEL Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) - Japanese health rules on imported U.S. apples that include a
545-yard buffer zone around orchards and regular inspections are illegal
under international trade law, the World Trade
allow the duties to remain a
while longer.
The Bush administration had argued the tariffs met WTO provisions allowing
temporary duties for up to three years to protect a domestic industry from
a flood of cheap imports and give it time to restructure. The European
Union and its allies complained
WTO Ruling on U.S. Tax Break Ignites Lobbying Battle
Issue Divides Domestic Firms, Multinationals
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 6, 2003; Page A07
The need to rewrite tax laws for U.S. exporters has spawned a massive
lobbying and legislative battle in Congress
WTO challenge India and China team up
Charlotte Denny
Tuesday July 1, 2003
The Guardian
India and China will challenge the west's control over global trade rules
with a united front at the World Trade Organisation.
The alliance was struck last week during their first summit meeting for a
decade
- Original Message -
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... But I'm still not clear on what you're
advocating as an alternative. 100% autarchy is impossible. But 50%?
25%?
Give me a case and I'll think about it. Here in Johannesburg, I'd say 100%
delinking from hot money by imposing
come from numerous WTO reform initiatives (from AFL/ICFTU, enviros,
Cairns Group, Like-Minded Group, etc etc)?; b) what manipulations are being
carried out by the new Green Men (Friends of the Chair, including SA trade
minister Alec Erwin, responsible at Doha for WTO rules) who have replaced
Patrick Bond wrote:
So I'm back with Keynes on that 1933 Yale Review citation that Daly likes:
let goods be homespun whenever reasonably and conveniently possible.
Comrades, let's globalise people, not capital...
You're doing the same thing that the IMF-Treasury-Wall Street complex
does - equate
Peter Dorman wrote:
rgely powerless. It
benefits from the importance of being unimportant. The WTO is fatally
flawed because it rests on the foundation of trade ministers, the
designated corporate gofers within any government. On top of that, it
is the product (as are all really important
There are two aspects to the WTO power structure that lead it to deviate
from even a moderately acceptable level of democracy. The first has to
do with the behind-the-scenes manipulation, which Patrick referred to.
It is only formally a one-country, one-vote institution. The second
has to do
Peter:
What demonstrators have been demonstrating against
is the steady push, utilizing the WTO as a vehicle,
for the market access interests of those who profit
from exports in every country against all the other
social/economic/environmental interests that conflict
with them. By its very
- Original Message -
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're doing the same thing that the IMF-Treasury-Wall Street complex
does - equate trade with capital flows. Keynes said goods, which
you elide into capital.
Doug, come on, you know the rest of the quote: Above all, let finance
Patrick Bond wrote:
But sure, it's very hard to do autarchy. That's why advocates of delinking
like Amin and Bello specify that they are not for 100% autarchy. They
promote delinking from the most destructive circuitry of capital, namely
pure export-led growth based upon primary commodities, and
As soon as I say that though, I wonder - what common
interests are there between Brazil and Zimbabwe?
Doug
I don't know about Brazil and Zimbabwe but, apparently, Brazil
and South Africa are trying to find an answer to your question,
if you replace Zimbabwe with South Africa:
Sabri Oncu wrote:
I don't know about Brazil and Zimbabwe but, apparently, Brazil
and South Africa are trying to find an answer to your question,
if you replace Zimbabwe with South Africa:
Brazil SA are regional hegemons with considerable industry.
Zimbabwe is quite poor and weak. I picked Brazil
Brazil SA are regional hegemons with considerable
industry. Zimbabwe is quite poor and weak. I picked
Brazil Zim deliberately, because of the power
disparity and because of the geographical
distance.
Doug
I don't care!
Turkey is not a third-world country either.
We are gonna screw the
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Monbiot on the WTO
isn't the WTO run according to the principle of one country/one vote, while the IMF and World Bank are controlled by their big stockholders (mostly the US)? If so, then the WTO is a relatively democratic organization (though of course the voters represent
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Monbiot on the WTO
isn't the WTO run according to the principle of one country/one vote,
while
the IMF and World Bank are controlled by their big
. In my make-believe world, this
is above all what the WTO would be doing.
3. The institutional problem of environmental and social standards is
huge. The ILO (which I will be working for once again over the summer)
is admirable in many ways, but only because it is largely powerless. It
benefits from
at all. George Bush seems to be preparing
to destroy the WTO at the next world trade talks in September not because
its rules are unjust, but because they are not unjust enough. He is
seeking to negotiate individually with weaker countries so that he can
force even harsher terms of trade upon them
know precisely which side we
are on.
I am not sure if I agree with this. It would have been nice of
course if we can transform the World Trade Organization (WTO)
into a Fair Trade Organization (FTO), but one question I have is
this:
Is the WTO transformable into an FTO?
Who knows where the road
I would rather call for the strengthening of the International Labor
Organization than the WTO. Any organization that emphasizes trade rather
than people's lives is not likely to do much good.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:27:06PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Monbiot:
So let us campaign
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would rather call for the strengthening of the International Labor
Organization than the WTO. Any organization that emphasizes trade rather
than people's lives is not likely to do much good.
=
I would
ensure that when George Bush tries to
sabotage the multilateral system in September, we
know precisely which side we are on.
Why can't we be againts both Bush and the WTO?
And don't ask me what the third alternative is. Sometimes, there
are only two, sometimes there are more than two.
If only I
- Original Message -
From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why can't we be againts both Bush and the WTO?
=
Most definitely we can. It's how to create collective action-imagination
for designing institutions for the 21st century that is at issue given
lefty norms
[yet more ridiculous EU bashing; only a matter of time before everyone
outside the USA is considered a threat]
washingtonpost.com
How Europe Sows Misery in Africa
By Kevin A. Hassett and Robert Shapiro
Sunday, June 22, 2003; Page B03
The average person in sub-Saharan Africa earns less
http://www.flonnet.com
Volume 20 - Issue 13, June 21 - July 04, 2003
WORLD AFFAIRS
A round of uncertainty
WALDEN BELLO
As the next ministerial of the WTO approaches, schisms have begun to
surface between contending parties. The Cancun meet is shaping up to be
another Seattle.
ONLY a little over
How can this absurdity be peddled so openly and repeatedly? EU ag
subsidies the biggest single contributor to Third World poverty? Unreal.
Peter
Ian Murray wrote:
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Europe's trade hypocrisy: The West pays to keep the rest poor
Philip Bowring IHT
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From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] WTO--hypocrisy, yada yada yada
How can this absurdity be peddled so openly and repeatedly? EU ag
subsidies the biggest single contributor to Third
are left hanging, the ministers will
have scant time for the crucial ones that require ministerial input.
To underscore African anger, President Blaise Compaore Burkina Faso went
to the WTO in Geneva last week to plead the case of African cotton
farmers. He noted that many African countries opened
Posted on Fri, Jun. 13, 2003
WTO Gives U.S. Deadline to Repeal Law
Associated Press
GENEVA - A World Trade Organization arbitrator Friday gave the United
States until Dec. 27 to repeal a U.S. law giving American companies the
fines collected from foreign firms they accused of unfair pricing
http://www.southbendtribune.com
June 13, 2003
Bayh to introduce WTO legislation
Senator: Trade group's rulings unfair to U.S.
By JAMES WENSITS
Tribune Political Writer
U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh said Thursday there is growing evidence that the World
Trade Organization is neither neutral nor impartial
WTO farm talks near deadlock
Charlotte Denny
Saturday March 29, 2003
The Guardian
The World Trade Organisation was last night facing the prospect of a
repeat of its disastrous Seattle meeting, after talks on agreeing a
framework for cutting farm subsidies ended in deadlock.
Stuart Harbinson
http://www.flonnet.com
Volume 20 - Issue 05, March 01 - 14, 2003
WTO
The elusive consensus
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN
The Tokyo conclave of a pivotal group of WTO member-countries highlights
the absence of consensus on crucial issues, especially agricultural trade
liberalisation and access
officials
said on Monday.
The EU won the right to sanctions when the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
ruled against U.S. export tax breaks, and the new Commission proposal will
come just before European Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy visits the United
States for talks.
The Commission, which negotiates trade
WTO Ministers Fail to Make Tariff Deals
By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
3:38 AM PST, February 16, 2003
TOKYO -- Exporting giants seeking new markets and nations intent on protecting
their own farmers could not bridge their differences on tariffs at the last
day of a World Trade Organization
of
the Doha round and progress has been painfully slow. Should it come to war
against Saddam, the hope in both the White House and Downing Street is that it
will be short and decisive.
No such optimism is to be found in the corridors of the WTO on the shore of
Lac Léman on the outskirts of Geneva
Japantoday politics
Farm disputes hit WTO meeting
Saturday, February 15, 2003 at 09:15 JST
TOKYO - The two camps of major farm-produce exporters and importers geared up
Friday for full-blown confrontation as ministers from 22 economies gathered in
Tokyo for a three-day informal meeting
WTO calls for cuts in farm subsidies
Charlotte Denny
Thursday February 13, 2003
The Guardian
The World Trade Organisation put itself on a collision course with Brussels
yesterday when it demanded sweeping cuts in the common agricultural policy as
part of a package of measures to speed up global
WTO sorts drugs patent issues for Third World
A K Bhattacharya in Davos | January 29, 2003 12:43 IST
http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/jan/29wef3.htm
The World Trade Organisation has made headway in resolving the differences over
intellectual property rights for drugs needed by developing
US Faces WTO Pressure to Repeal Trade Measure
Thu January 16, 2003 04:43 PM ET
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States faced pressure on Thursday from
the World Trade Organization to repeal a controversial trade protection
program that has paid out more than $500 million
WTO panel to examine softwood duties
By ROMA LUCIW
Globe and Mail Update
Wednesday, January 8 - Online Edition, Posted at 6:03 PM EST
The World Trade Organization has agreed to establish a fourth panel,
this time to hear Ottawa's challenge of U.S. dumping duties on Canadian
exports of softwood
Local councils attack WTO
Planning laws 'under threat from trade liberalisation'
Charlotte Denny, economics correspondent
Monday December 2, 2002
The Guardian
The government was accused last night of giving up control of issues at the
core of local government in World Trade Organisation
Monday, November 25, 2002
WTO Drug Access Negotiations Begin
By CLARE NULLIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
GENEVA -- Negotiators opened talks Monday at the World Trade Organization on
the issue of access to medicines in hopes of reaching a compromise by an
end-of-year deadline between the United
Run-Up to Sydney WTO Meet Sparks Internet Clash
Fri Oct 4, 4:48 AM ET
By Michael Christie
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Battle lines between police and protesters are already
being drawn ahead of a world trade meeting in Sydney in November, after
state officials applied for anti-WTO Web Sites to be banned
WTO Gives EU OK for U.S. Sanctions
Reuters
Friday, August 30, 2002; 11:42 AM
GENEVA/BRUSSELS - The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on Friday the European Union
could slam sanctions worth a record $4 billion on U.S. exports in retaliation for tax
breaks to U.S. companies.
The figure
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/04shiva.cfm
December 04, 2001
Doha: Saving Wto, Killing Democracy
By Vandana Shiva
Doha was described by Robert Zoellick, the U.S. Trade Representative, as
having removed the stain of Seattle. Seattle stands as a historical
watershed, through
rediff.com
June 29, 2002 | 1440 IST
WTO to probe textile exports to US
BS Economy Bureau
The World Trade Organisation has agreed to create a panel to look into the
complaints made by India against the US blocking its textiles and clothing
exports with complicated new rules.
The European
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~andreoni/302incidence.pdf
[NYTimes]
June 13, 2002
W.T.O. Loophole Allows a Surge in Protectionism
By ELIZABETH OLSON
GENEVA, June 12 - The safeguard exception was supposed to be a small,
minor loophole in global trade rules, allowing a country to head off a
sudden wave of imports without having to wait for the slow,
-globalisation movement's hate list, the WTO was a difficult
organisation to run even before the protesters started besieging its
summits.
Managing it is going to require more than Zen-like calm. Protectionism
is on the rise in the US, usually the cheerleader for free markets.
Brussels and Washington
Hindustantimes.com
April 20, 2002
India, China to work closely at WTO on common interests
PTI
Kolkata , 19-04-2002
India and China would work closely on areas of common interests at the WTO
including agriculture and environment, a senior government official said on
Friday.
Union Ministry
The Times of India
MONDAY, APRIL 08, 2002
WTO chief says Russia can join
AFP
MOSCOW: Russia has every chance of joining the World Trade Organisation
within the next 18 months but still has many laws to pass to secure entry,
WTO chief Mike Moore said in an interview published on Monday.
I
[It's a CGE model...]
http://www.nautilus.org/energy/eaef/C3_final.PDF
Hindustantimes.com
February 08, 2002 Friday
Developing countries urge special treatment in WTO agriculture talks
AFP
Geneva , 07-02-2002
Nine developing countries have called for special treatment for poor
countries in WTO agricultural negotiations partly to help ensure the supply
of staple
http://www.columbialawreview.org/pdf/Alben.pdf
Garnaut, an
economics professor and China specialist at the Australian National
University in Canberra. The more it embraces economic strength
rather than economic self-sufficiency, the easier will be its
transition to a rich, modern economy.
While China's decision to enter the WTO is a sign
of clarity in the Saudi legal system was making it hard
for the
conservative kingdom to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
They argue that most of the country's laws, based on Islamic Sharia, are ambiguous and
that there is
no clear system to rule on legal disputes.
``There are trade
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/108abrw_e.p
df
Thursday January 10, 3:10 pm Eastern Time
WTO ruling could reignite US-EU export tax spat
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A high-stakes trade dispute between the
United States and the European Union over tax breaks for exporters
comes to a head next Monday with a World Trade
Wednesday January 2, 4:23 pm Eastern Time
WTO Sides With United States in Dispute Over Trademarks of Companies
Seized by Cuba
By NAOMI KOPPEL
Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) -- Stepping into a dispute between rum makers, the World
Trade Organization sided with the United States Wednesday
, and its tentacles reach
everywhere--into offices, local and foreign enterprises and every
citizen's life. WTO membership will not end that. (See also book
review on page 68)
For foreign businesses, the rules of the party world mean they cannot
turn to a free labour market. More insidiously, some
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Ian sent this to us, along with his wishes for a happy pilgrim
imperialism day.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/560/in2.htm
Africa duped
What constitutes a trouble-free draft for the WTO ministerial
meeting
in Doha? Snubbing African concerns, says Tetteh Hormeku*
The draft ministerial
Note Comrade Bello's opposition to international labor rights. As I
suggested some weeks ago, a mouthpiece for the neo-mercantilist politics of
the decaying third worldist bureaucracies found in places like Mayalsia and
Singapore.
Stephen F. Diamond
School of Law
Santa Clara University
[EMAIL
For a very depressing take on the WTO negotiations:
http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/freespeech/fsrn2004.rastart=\16:14.9\;
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[from The Guardian]
Shanghai dispatch
China faces agricultural revolution
Millions of Chinese farmers fear the growing impact of global
agribusiness as they prepare for entry into the WTO, writes John
Gittings
Tuesday November 13, 2001
Everyone agrees that China's entry into the WTO
http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=199136155
Hard-playing India poised to win at Doha
PRIYA RANJAN DASH
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: Amidst hopes of a deal, the WTO deliberations were
delicately poised in a make-or-break situation in the last hours of
the ministers' meeting
[Decidable?]
China's Ticket Into WTO Foreshadows Revolution
By John Pomfret and Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 11, 2001; Page A01
HENGSHUI, China -- Sun Guoyin and her daughter Hou Roufang once led a
dreary existence as employees of a drab, state-owned
At midday on 9 Nov a protest against the WTO took place in WTO Director-general
Mike Moore's home town, Christchurch, to coincide with the opening of the talks
at Doha. It took the form of a tour of capitalist greed. You can see photos at
http://www.interactive.orcon.net.nz/frontpage.html
I like the poster, no war but the class war. Just do it.
Bill Rosenberg wrote:
At midday on 9 Nov a protest against the WTO took place in WTO Director-general
Mike Moore's home town, Christchurch, to coincide with the opening of the talks
at Doha. It took the form of a tour of capitalist
Monday October 22 1:06 PM ET
WTO Rules for U.S. on Shrimp Dispute
GENEVA (AP) - The World Trade Organization on Monday rejected for a
second time complaints by Malaysia that the United States is imposing
illegal trade restrictions on shrimp imports through a law aimed at
protecting endangered
Wednesday September 26 11:15 AM EDT
WTO or not: China is 'risky' business
By Irene Tham, ZDNet Asia
SINGAPORE--Market research firm Gartner Inc has rated high-tech
investments in China as risky, at least over the next 10 years,
despite the country's imminent entry into the World Trade
Michael P. asks:
Has anybody looked at the recent issue? The symposium on trade seems
especially weak to me. Am I alone on this?
=
Not having access to this I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts. I'd also
appreciate a comment, if possible, on the following article:
David A. Spencer (2000),
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