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Cotton Case Affects Other Trade

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Brazil revealed on March 15 a preliminary list of U. S. patents and intellectual property rights it could restrict unless both countries settle a long-standing dispute over U. S. cotton aid. It is the second set of measures Brazil has unveiled in a week to pressure Washington to obey a ruling by the World Trade
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WTO Panel To Hear COOL Dispute

The World Trade Organization set up a dispute settlement panel last Thursday to hear a complaint from Canada and Mexico that a recent U. S. food-labelling law is unfair. Washington’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) requires U. S. packers to notify customers of the country of origin of meat and other farm products at each major
Cereals, Opinion

Ritz Must Stand Up For Farmers’ Marketing Systems At WTO

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The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks in Geneva are targeting farmers’ marketing agencies – including supply-management and the Canadian Wheat Board single desk. I predict that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will return home from the current round of negotiations announcing that these so-called “state trading enterprises” are no longer legal under WTO trade rules
Cereals, News

Tories Balk At Backing CWB At WTO: NDP

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The federal NDP’s international trade critic says the Conservatives’ refusal to back a motion of support for supply management and the Canadian Wheat Board shows they can’t be trusted to protect either at the WTO. Burnaby-New Westminster MP Peter Julian moved at a Nov. 3 meeting of the House of Commons’ standing committee on international
Livestock

U. S. Blocks Canada/Mexico Call For WTO Panel In Meat Row

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The United States has blocked requests by Canada and Mexico for World Trade Organization experts to examine new U. S. labelling rules that the two U. S. neighbours say are hurting their meat exports. Both Canada and Mexico told the WTO’s dispute settlement body that U. S. country-of-origin-labelling (COOL) rules – requiring meat sold in
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Gloom, Frustration Mark Doha Talks

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Gloomy negotiators are expressing frustration at the lack of progress in the World Trade Organization’s Doha round, even as they hold an intensive series of meetings intended to secure a breakthrough. “We have a credibility problem… these are lean times,” said the ambassador of one emerging country, as he left a meeting of key delegations
Cereals, Crops

CWB On WTO Block

The upcoming World Trade Organization (WTO) talks, scheduled for Geneva this week, are targeting the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) single desk, warns the National Farmers Union (NFU). The WTO negotiations are expected to be based on a draft text that would eliminate western Canadian farmers’ single-desk marketing system for wheat and barley by 2013. Under
Livestock

WTO Panel Assesses South Korea Beef Ban

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Canadian cattle producers are applauding the establishment of a World Trade Organization trade dispute settlement panel over South Korea’s refusal to accept Canadian beef. Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) president, Brad Wildeman spoke on behalf of cattle producers across Canada saying that the federal government’s determination to overcome this ongoing, unjustifiable border closure is encouraging. “Canadian
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Canada Forges Ahead With WTO Challenge Of COOL

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Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it official May 7. Canada is reviving its WTO challenge of the United States country-of-origin labelling program. In a visit to Washington in late April, Day told reporters he had informed U. S. officials of Canada’s intention. But the government still wanted to make an
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U. S. Wants New WTO Process

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Big emerging countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa must do more to open their markets to secure a new global trade deal, the U. S. trade chief said May 13. U. S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who took up his job in March, was speaking after two days of intense talks with U.

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