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COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

By Ron Friesen April 16, 2009

U. S. plants are “very cagey.” – FLORIAN POSSBERG, CPC A Wo r l d Trade Organization challenge to U. S. country-of-origin labelling is virtually certain and recent remarks by U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack may have speeded it up, industry insiders say. A letter from Vilsack to U. S. meat processors in January

Dairy cattle, News

Chief Trade Negotiator Moves To New Portfolio

By Alex Binkley April 16, 2009

After years as Canada’s chief agriculture negotiator at the WTO, Steve Verheul has joined the team of Canadian officials working out a free trade deal with the European Union. Verheul, who was raised on a Southern Ontario dairy farm, has spoken to countless farm meetings since he took on the chief negotiator’s job in the

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Wto Confirms New Zealander As Farm Talk Chair

April 16, 2009

New Zealand’s new ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), David Walker, will take over as the next chairman of the WTO’s sensitive agriculture talks, the head of the WTO’s general council said April 8. Chile’s WTO Ambassador Mario Matus said in a statement to delegations that a consensus had emerged among the WTO’s 153

News

WTO Head Says Trade Restrictions Mounting

By Jonathan Lynn April 9, 2009

International commerce risks being strangled by a gradual buildup of restrictions that could undermine policies to revive the world economy, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said March 26. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said there were no signs of an imminent descent into intense tit-for-tat protectionism. “The danger today is of an

News

WTO Deal And Supply Management Can Coexist: Trade Expert

By Alana Vannahme April 2, 2009

An agriculture trade deal at the World Trade Organization’s Doha round would not have to spell the end of Canada’s supply management system, according to a former senior trade official. Contrary to what is often said, the decades-old system that protects Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry industries through tariffs, supply quotas and price controls does

Livestock

EU Farm Export Refunds Seen Unlikely After 2013

By Nigel Hunt March 19, 2009

The European Union will use export refunds (subsidies) as an emergency measure to support agricultural prices until 2013 but must then find new mechanisms, a leading official with the European Commission said March 11. If world prices are lower than internal support levels, the EU refunds the difference to exporters. “I personally don’t see that

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Poultry

China Warns Of WTO Challenge On Poultry

By Jason Subler March 19, 2009

“Frankly, we’re not opposed to China seeking relief from the WTO, and we wish them success” – JIM SUMNER, USA POULTRY AND EGG EXPORT COUNCIL China said March 11 that it plans to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization about a U. S. law, renewed this month, that blocks imports of Chinese poultry

News

U. S. Trade Agenda More Diplomatic

By Jonathan Lynn March 12, 2009

Developing coun-tries have high hopes that President Barack Obama’s readiness to work with other nations could clear the way for a deal in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) long-running Doha trade talks. But the reality of tackling the global crisis, as the United States seeks new export markets and poor countries push for a deal

News

WTO Members Warn On Emerging Protectionism

By Jonathan Lynn February 26, 2009

“I think everybody expects things to get worse before they get better.” – RICHARD EGLIN, WTO TRADE POLICIES REVIEW DIVISION The risk of a global lurch into protectionism is getting worse, though trade measures taken to tackle the financial crisis have not seriously fuelled it so far, World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed Feb. 9.

News

Lamy only candidate for next head of WTO

January 15, 2009

The current head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, is the only candidate to be the next director general, since no one has emerged to challenge him for the job, a WTO spokesman said Jan. 5. Lamy was the only candidate to have come forward when nominations closed on Dec. 31, spokesman Keith

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COOL Challenge Could Come Soon: CPC

Chief Trade Negotiator Moves To New Portfolio

Wto Confirms New Zealander As Farm Talk Chair

WTO Deal And Supply Management Can Coexist: Trade Expert

EU Farm Export Refunds Seen Unlikely After 2013

China Warns Of WTO Challenge On Poultry

U. S. Trade Agenda More Diplomatic

Lamy only candidate for next head of WTO

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