WTO-Watch (wto-watch@iatp.org) Posted: 09/04/2003 By dwiehoff@iatp.org
Dear Subscribers,
It has been a few months since the last issue of WTO-Watch. We have been
preparing for the upcoming WTO meeting in Cancun. To avoid cluttering your
email box, we have created a new list that just covers the WTO ministerial -
Cancun Update. I am sending along the most recent edition to give you an idea
of what is covered.
Feel free to subscribe. Go to www.tradeobservatory.org and fill
in your email address on the subscription box.
You'll see, there are a lot of activities going on in Cancun - a fair trade
fair, Radio Cancun and lots more. Once the Ministerial is over, I'll stop
sending out Cancun Update and go back to WTO-Watch.
Thanks for your interest.
Dale Wiehoff, IATP
Cancun Update
September 3, 2003
* * * C O N T E N T S * * *
- Fair Trade Fair and Symposiums in Cancun
September 10-12
- Radio Cancun is on the Internet
NEWS
- México Podría Definir Si Hay Avance
Democrático De La OMC En Cancún
- Developing Nations Want to Drop
Issues From Trade Talks
- Guess Who Comes Out On Top At Cancun?
(and What to Do About It)
- WTO Fails To Pin Down Pact On Cheap
Medicines
- Nueva Visión Para El Comercio
Agrícola
- French Judge Prevents Bove From Going
To Cancun For WTO Talks
- US Cools Expectations, Analysts Say
World Trade Deadline Looks Dead
- Mexico Vows To Fight Agricultural
Subsidies
- China To Resist Calls For Further
Concessions In Cancun WTO Talks - Analysts
- Activists Fight WTO In Mexico, Hope
To Reverse Globalization
- En Cancún No Se Comprometerá El
Bienestar De México: Derbez
- WTO Cancun: Chat On-line with Pascal
Lamy
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
- World Trade Organization Agreement on
Agriculture Basics
- WTO Services Agreement: Possible
Impacts on Agriculture, The
- WTO Decision Making: A Broken Process
- TRIPs Agreement: Who Owns and
Controls Knowledge and Resources?, The
- Water Services under the World Trade
Organization
- EC–US Joint Text on Agriculture
- Draft Cancún Ministerial Text -
Revision
- Constructive Approach towards
Agriculture, Food and Water in Cancun, A
- Achieving Harmony In Trade And Environment:
The Way Forward
- Towards Food Sovereignty (Summary)
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY
- Interview with Shefali Sharma,
RELATED SITES
- Fair Trade Resource Network
- Friends of the Earth International
Cancun Ministerial
- Food First WTO
- USDA Trade
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Fair Trade Fair and Symposiums in Cancun September 10-12 Producers, retailers,
certifying organizations and many others will be participating in the Fair
Trade Fair in Cancun, during the WTO Ministerial. Learn about the positive
alternatives to the current global trade regime.
Get the details at:
http://www.fairtradeexpo.org
Radio Cancun is on the Internet
Check out the news and special reports from Radio Cancun. During the WTO
Ministerial, Radio Cancun will be producing lively news summaries and interview
with participants in the Cancun meeting. Get and inside view with daily updates
and special reports.
Get the details at:
http://www.radiocancun.org
NEWS:
Mexico Podría Definir Si Hay Avance
Democrático De La OMC En Cancún La Jornada | By JIM CASON Y DAVID BROOKS |
August 2, 2003 Washington y Nueva
York, 1º de agosto. El gobierno de México tendrá un papel clave para determinar
si la próxima reunión de la Organización Mundial de Comercio, en Cancún en
septiembre próximo, será una repetición de negociaciones no democráticas y
secretas como las que se realizaron en su última ronda hace dos años, o si
se stablecerá un proceso más
democrático y transparente que permita la presencia de las voces de todos los
países miembros, señalaron expertos y críticos del comercio internacional esta
semana.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4656
Developing Nations Want to Drop Issues From Trade Talks
Associated Press | By Naomi Koppel | Saturday, August 16, 2003 GENEVA, Aug.
15 - Officials of a group of developing nations, exhausted by long talks on how
best to open up international trade, suggested today that several contentious
topics be dropped from the current round of negotiations.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4651
Guess Who Comes Out On Top At Cancun? (and What to Do About It)
The East African | By Gichinga Ndirangu |
August 18, 2003 The World Trade
Organization meeting in Cancun, Mexico, this September will, in keeping with
tradition, be a roll-call of the world's trade ministers.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4659
WTO Fails To Pin Down Pact On Cheap Medicines
Agence France Presse | By KATE MILLAR | August 29, 2003 WTO members on Friday failed to pin down an
accord on ensuring patent rules do not bar access to cheap medicines for poor
countries after problems prevented a deal at the eleventh hour.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4691
Nueva Visión Para El Comercio Agrícola
La Jornada | Mark Ritchie | Sepember 1, 2003
Ningún tema en preparación para la próxima reunión de la Organización
Mundial de Comercio (OMC) en Cancún ha generado un debate tan acalorado como la
agricultura.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4701
French Judge Prevents Bove From Going To Cancun For WTO Talks
Agence France Presse | September 1, 2003
A French judge on Monday barred
high-profile anti-globalization campaigner Jose Bove - recently released
from prison - from attending the upcoming World Trade Organization summit
in Mexico.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4702
US Cools Expectations, Analysts Say World Trade Deadline Looks Dead
Agence France Presse | September 1, 2003
US President George W. Bush's administration is already tempering
expectations for progress at global trade talks in Mexico as deep divisions
throw a January 1, 2005 deadline for final agreement into serious doubt,
analysts say.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4703
Mexico Vows To Fight Agricultural Subsidies
Agence France Presse | September 2, 2003
MEXICO CITY == Mexico vowed late
Monday to fight state subsidies on agricultural products, setting the stage
for a heated battle between industrialized and developing countries at an
upcoming World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4704
China To Resist Calls For Further Concessions In Cancun WTO Talks -
Analysts
AFX.COM | September 2, 2003 BEIJING --
Chinese delegates going to the
upcoming World Trade Organization talks in Cancun, Mexico will aim to resist
foreign pressure for additional concessions in opening up its huge market,
officials and analysts said.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4705
Activists Fight WTO In Mexico, Hope To Reverse Globalization
Agence France Presse | BY DAVID WILLIAMS | September 3, 2003
Anti-globalization forces are looking to a WTO trade conference in Mexico as a
potential milestone in a movement that burst onto the world stage in Seattle in
1999.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4710
En Cancún No Se Comprometerá El Bienestar De México: Derbez
La Jornada | By ROSA ELVIRA VARGAS | September 3, 3003 El diálogo y los
encuentros que han tenido las organizaciones no gubernamentales con el gobierno
mexicano, con miras a la cumbre de la Organización Mundial de Comercio (OMC) en
Cancún, representan un paso importante para una eventual agenda común frente a
los planteamientos de este organismo, coincidieron ayer representantes de más
de 30 organismos que se reunieron nuevamente con el canciller Luis Ernesto
Derbez.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4712
WTO Cancun: Chat On-line with Pascal Lamy
EU Trade News | September 3, 2003 The
WTO Cancún Ministerial Conference,
10-14 September, represents the half way point in the work of the Doha
Development Agenda, and is a key staging post towards completion of this
multilateral trade round by the end of 2004.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/news/index.cfm?ID=4713
DOCUMENT LIBRARY
World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture Basics
Number two of six in the WTO Cancun Series.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2376
WTO Services Agreement: Possible Impacts on Agriculture
Number three of six in the WTO Cancun
Series.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2377
WTO Decision Making: A Broken Process
Number four of six in the WTO Cancun Series.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2378
TRIPs Agreement: Who Owns and Controls Knowledge and Resources?
Number five of six in the WTO Cancun Series.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2379
Water Services under the World Trade Organization
Number six of six in the WTO Cancun Series.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2380
EC-US Joint Text on Agriculture
13 August 2003 joint text on agriculture.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2386
Draft Cancún Ministerial Text - Revision
The revised draft Cancún Ministerial Text is being circulated by the Chairman
of the General Council on his own responsibility, in close cooperation with the
Director-General. The Text will be
taken up for discussion at a meeting of the General Council scheduled for the
week of 25 August, which will be preceded by an informal meeting of Heads of Delegations.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2394
Constructive Approach towards Agriculture, Food and Water in Cancun, A
There are literally dozens of major issues being debated in the run up to
the WTO Ministerial in Cancun. This article addresses one of these many
concerns -- the content of the agriculture talks, which include key elements
relating to food security and safety, water, and biodiversity.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2395
Achieving Harmony In Trade And Environment: The Way Forward
Global Environment Trade Studies (GETS) program of activities during the WTO
Ministerial in Cancun.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2396
Toawrds Food Sovereignty (Summary)
Summary of the draft of "Toward Food Sovereignty: Constructing an
Alternative to the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture."
English version.
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/library/index.cfm?ID=2398
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY
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Interview with Shefali Sharma
Get the details at:
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/multimedia/index.cfm?ID=216
RELATED SITES
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Fair Trade Resource Network
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Trade to the public, the media and Fair Trade advocates, and galvanizing Fair
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Friends of the Earth International Cancun Ministerial
FOEI web site for the WTO Cancun Ministerial
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http://www.foei.org/cancun
Food First WTO
Food First web site covering the WTO. INcludes material for the Canucn
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Get the details at:
http://www.foodfirst.org/wto
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Get the details at:
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