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Canada to target U.S. products in meat labels dispute
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17.5.2013 |
Yahoo: US National |
| By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada will put forward a list of U.S. products that it will target in retaliation over a dispute with its largest trading partner about country of origin labels on meat, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Friday. The dispute stems from a 2009 U.S. requirement that retail outlets label the country of origin for meat and other products, in an effort to give U.S. consumers more information about their food. Canada and Mexico complained that the rule caused a decline in U.S. ... |
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Canada to Target U.S. Products in Meat Labels Dispute
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17.5.2013 |
International Herald Tribune: Americas |
| Canada to Target U.S. Products in Meat Labels Dispute |
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On One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Free Trade Agreement, Colombia Remains Deadliest Country for Union Members
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16.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Newswire |
The number of Colombian union members violently displaced from their homes has increased and death threats against unionists have remained appallingly high since the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was implemented one year ago today, according to the Escuela Nacional Sindical (ENS), the institution recognized as an authoritative source of monitoring dataread more |
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No More Playing With Money
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15.5.2013 |
American Prospect |
| If you’re looking for the personification of the Washington economic establishment, you could do a lot worse than Fred Bergsten. National Security Council economics deputy under Henry Kissinger (at age 27), then head of the international desk and the monetary portfolio in Jimmy Carter’s Treasury Department, and from 1981 through last year the founding director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Bergsten has been a forceful advocate for what used to be called the Washington Consensus: an unflagging belief in the virtues of free trade and fiscal discipline.
This Thursday, he delivers what looks to be at least a semi-valedictory at the Peterson Institute, the annual Stavros Niarchos lecture. Rather than celebrate the virtues of free trade—a topic he says (in an advanced text of his speech) that he considered and then rejected—he devotes his talk instead to an analysis of the devastating effect that currency manipulation has had on the American and other economies, and ... |
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IHT Rendezvous: Europeans Move to Stave Off Hollywood
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14.5.2013 |
NYT > World |
| IHT Rendezvous: Europeans Move to Stave Off Hollywood |
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Obama Considers Giving Corporations Political Power In Trade Deal
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14.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European... |
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The Decline of the WTO
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13.5.2013 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| The trade body picks a Brazilian who helped to scuttle the Doha talks. |
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David Cameron: A British-American Tax and Trade Agenda
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13.5.2013 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| The Europe-U.S. trade talks are a precious opportunity, but they must include fairer taxes and more transparency. |
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David Paul: Beware the Global Consequences of Further Declines in the American Middle Class
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11.5.2013 |
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com |
| If the world is to sustain the momentum of economic development that is essential to Jim Yong Kim's optimism, the companies and countries that have benefitted from expanding free trade have a collective stake in figuring out a path forward that stanches the downward spiral of the American middle class. |
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Despite winning top world trade job, even Brazil looks beyond WTO
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10.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| By Alonso Soto BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil campaigned hard to get the top job at the World Trade Organization this week but behind closed doors even it acknowledges that the WTO's main mission - pushing forward in global trade talks - looks for the moment like a lost cause. Instead, President Dilma Rousseff's government is moving, albeit cautiously, towards less ambitious bilateral and regional deals that may have a greater chance of success. Rousseff's hope is that more trade could shake Latin America's most insular major economy from a surprisingly deep recent slump. ... ... |
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Canadian, U.S. responses to WTO decision in Green Energy Act case
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10.5.2013 |
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us |
| As expected, people aren't very happy with the WTO decision this week reaffirming the illegality (under global trade rules) of local content requirements in the Ontario Green Energy Act. The WTO Appellate Body, which has a final say in trade disputes between countries, agreed with a WTO panel report on December 19 that the high local content quotas on solar and wind components (up to 60 per cent) discriminate against products manufactured elsewhere. Japan and the European Union were the complainants in the WTO case, which has attracted global attention for the threat this final decision will create for similar local content rules on energy, transit and other types of government spending around the world.
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U.S.-EU pact will be trade 'game changer': EU envoy
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10.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Business |
| By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European Union officials on Thursday touted the huge economic potential of a proposed free trade pact with the United States even as they poked fun at its cumbersome name, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. "We've launched this strange animal called TTIP ('tee tip')," EU Ambassador to the United States João Vale de Almeida said at a reception to mark Europe Day. "This is a game-changer. As I like to say, this is the mother of all free trade areas. ... |
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Why the TransPacific Partnership is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal
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9.5.2013 |
Commondreams.org Views |
 (Photo courtesy of Think Panama)NHK Broadcasting, Japan’s equivalent of the BBC, contacted me last month, wanting a statement on the American public’s reaction to the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
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Azevêdo targets next WTO talks in Bali
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9.5.2013 |
Financial Times US |
| World Trade Organisation’s next head says success with even a modest agenda is vital to ‘instilling confidence that we can still negotiate’ |
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Next W.T.O. Head Wants a New Look at the Body’s Role
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9.5.2013 |
NY Times: World |
| Robert Carvalho de Azevêdo, the next head of the World Trade Organization, said the institution should adapt as nations seek more regional trade agreements. |
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Incoming WTO director seeks 'negotiating pillar'
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8.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| The incoming head of the World Trade Organization says his first priority will be to try to rescue its credibility as a forum for trade negotiations. |
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Brazilian Tapped to Lead World Trade Organization
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8.5.2013 |
International Herald Tribune: Americas |
| Brazilian Tapped to Lead World Trade Organization |
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Azevedo looks to resurrect WTO with patient diplomacy
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8.5.2013 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| By Alonso Soto and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Roberto Azevedo, picked on Tuesday to head the World Trade Organization, is in every respect the quintessential Brazilian diplomat: a well-spoken, competent and smooth negotiator with a knack for wooing adversaries into his corner. A career diplomat with two decades of experience dealing with trade disputes, Azevedo will need those qualities more than ever to bridge the gap between developed and developing nations if he wants to reboot stalled global trade negotiations and breathe new life into the Geneva-based WTO. It is a huge task. ... ... |
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Diplomats: Brazil wins race for next WTO director
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7.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| World Trade Organization diplomats say a Brazilian ambassador has been selected to serve as the organization's next director general. |
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Brazil wins battle for WTO leadership
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7.5.2013 |
Financial Times US |
| The Brazilian candidate beat out Mexico, according to a Brazilian official, in a tight race that saw the EU back Azevêdo’s rival |
