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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) will over the next three months try to pick up the pieces from its failed summit in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting was effectively scuppered by the developing world, which refused to talk about writing rules on protecting investment rights into a new WTO agreement.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might be able to deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHAIRPERSON of the World Trade Organisation’s agricultural talks has warned that productive bilateral discussions behind the scenes will be required for the oncoming WTO summit in Cancun, Mexico, to have any chance of striking a ‘modalities’ deal setting the overall goals for the negotiations.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
The European Commission has launched a bid to protect the names of

several famous drinks originating in Europe like champagne, cognac,

chianti, sherry and port and is calling on the World Trade Organisation to

stop non-EU countries using them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Trade Organisation has failed to move its Doha development round ahead at its summit in Cancun, Mexico, with talks collapsing over proposals on investment rights. The WTO General Council will convene before Christmas to plot a way forward.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CALL has been made at the World Trade Organisation for this September’s summit in Cancún, Mexico, to agree to compensate least developed countries for the economic pain wreaked on their cotton producers by subsides paid out in rich developed countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AMERICAN pork exports are thriving according to a new report from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office. Overseas sales of swine, pork and pork products have increased three times in volume and 2.5 times in value since 1993, with the US now exporting more than 700 tonnes of pork worldwide worth over US$1.5 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations Environment Programme report has urged governments to take better care of the underground aquifers that they plunder for drinking water supplies, warning that many countries are pumping groundwater at unsustainable rates.

The paper singles out Spain’s Segura river basin for particular concern.…