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Taiwan Bans U.S. Beef, Threatens Trade Relations

Reuters | Posted 01.05.2010 | Business

Read More: Taiwan, U.S. Beef, Taiwan Beef, World Trade Organization, US Beef Exorts, Beef Exports, Wto, Taiwan WTO, Beef, Beef Ban, Business News

The U.S. government "deeply regrets" parliament's decision to reinstate the ban over widespread fears of mad cow disease, Washington's de facto embass...

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Geneva WTO Protests 2009 (PHOTOS): Police Clash With Black Bloc Demonstrators

AP | By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: Cancun, Qua Des Beruges, Switzerland, 2009 Wto Protest Geneva, Global Economy, Wto, Geneva, Economy, Burned Cars, Seattle, Us, Black Block, China, Slideshow, World News

GENEVA (AP)-- Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest of a meeting of top world trade offic...

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WTO And the Future of Fish

Julie Packard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, World Trade Organization, Ted Danson, Climate, Julie Packard, Seafood Watch, Subsidies, Sustainable Seafood, Wto, Climate Crisis, Fisheries, Overfishing, Seafood, Oceana, Green News
Julie Packard

Solving our global fisheries crisis will require global solutions, and involvement from everyone. Making good choices about the seafood we eat is a great way for each of us to do our part.

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Thousands Squat For 2.5 Billion Without Proper Sanitation On World Toilet Day

Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: World Toilet Organization, Wto, World Toilet Day, Sanitation, Impact News

Don't be alarmed if you spot people today popping a squat in office buildings, schools and public spaces. It's all part of World Toilet Day, which is ...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Internet Censorship Could Be Challenged By WTO

Reuters | Posted 11.06.2009 | Technology

Read More: Censorship World Trade Organization, Censorship Internet, World Trade Organization, WTO Censorship, Wto, Internet, WTO Internet Censorship, Technology News

GENEVA (Reuters) - Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organization as it can restrict trade in services delivered onli...

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There Will Be No Trade War

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Smoot-Hawley, International Trade, Free Trade, Obama Administration, The Great Depression, Protectionism, China, Tires, Dorkings, Wto, China Tire Tariff Wto, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings.

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G-20 Doesn't Offer Much Reform

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Imf, G20 Summit, Wto, Obama g20, g20, World Bank, Gordon Brown, World News
Mark Weisbrot

The expansion from the G-8 to the G-20 is mostly a symbolic move. Since the rich countries control the institutions with actual power, the G-20 is still mainly the G-7 with the other 13 countries sitting in.

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The Commerce Secretary From Boeing

David Segal | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Gary Locke, Washington State, Wto, 787 Jetliner, Commerce Secretary, World Trade Organization, Tax Cuts, Department of Commerce, States Rights, Trade Law, Tax Breaks, Airbus, Politics News
David Segal

Former Washington governor Gary Locke has worked hard to minister to the needs of the hometown corporation. Since being appointed as commerce secretary, he has an even higher perch from which he can do so.

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Washington Post Spreads Myths That Trade Enforcement Will Hurt Climate Change Agreements

Mike Elk | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Washington Post, Wto, Barack Obama, Tires, Green News
Mike Elk

If we don't enforce certain sections of trade agreements related to export, why would countries uphold their end of the deal when it comes to issues like climate change?

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China: U.S. Tire Tariffs Violate WTO Rules

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: China Us Trade, China Us Tires, Wto, World Trade Organization, China Tires, China, China Us, Us Tire Tariffs, China Tire, China Tariff Tires September 14 2009, Obama Approves Steel Pipe Tariff From China, Us Tires China, Wto China Us 2009, China Tire Tariff Wto, China Trade Tyres, World News

BEIJING — As Beijing launched a case Monday against new U.S. tariffs on Chinese tires, President Barack Obama defended the duties, saying tradin...

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Score One for Fair Trade

Jim Arkedis | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Boeing, Free Trade, Progressive Policy Institute, World Trade Organization, Wto, Unions, Airbus, World News
Jim Arkedis

The WTO's ruling late last week in a case involving Boeing and European arch-rival Airbus is a big and welcome victory that shows rule-based trade works.

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The U.S. Climate Change Bill: International Trade Implications & China

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Wto, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, Copenhagen 2009, China-Tariffs, Boarder Adjustment Measures, Tariffs, Climate Change, Congress, Climate Change Bill, Senate, Jake Caldwell, Special Interests, Green News
Elizabeth Lynch

Will additions to the Climate Change Bill maintain the competitiveness of U.S. industries, or are they attempts by certain industries to protect their profits?

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One-Sentence Health Insurance Reform

Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Regulation, Health Insurance, Health Care, Teabagging, Teabaggers, Wto, Abolition, Democrats, Most Favored Nation, Republicans, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

A "Most Favored Nation" clause for health care, modeled after the WTO trade rules.

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Illegal DVDs in China: Here to Stay

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Intellectual Property Rights, Chinese Culture, Entertainment Distribution, American Pop Culture, Wto, China, Ip, Cultural Ambassadors, Chinese Regulations, World News
Tom Doctoroff

The government will do nothing to stem the flood of pirated videos washing over towns and cities across the nation.

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US Fined $295 Million Over Illegal Subsidies To Cotton Growers

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: United States Cotton, Wto, World Trade Organization, Cotton Goods, Brazil, Us Brazil Goods, Wto Sanctions, Wto Brazil Sanctions, World News

GENEVA — American goods will face around $295 million in annual sanctions as a result of the United States' failure to eliminate illegal subsidi...

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President Obama's Upcoming "Section 421 Tire Case" Trade Enforcement Decision

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Wto, Section 421, ITC Tire Case, China, Trade, Business News
Dave Johnson

Very soon we will have an opportunity to see where President Obama comes down on trade with China, and whether the U.S. tire industry will be granted relief.

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President Hu, Tear Down This Firewall

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Manufacturing, Trade, G-20, China, Internet Censorship, President Obama, Mr. Gorbachev, US China Relations, Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Ronald Reagan, US China Trade, Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall, Wto, World News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

When Obama meets with President Hu next month, he should emulate one of his predecessors -- in fact one he has spoken of admiringly before -- and say something that could change history.

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A Fashion Foreign Policy

Michael Likosky | Posted 08.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Sporting Goods, Vivienne Westwood, Punk Rock, How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Bailouts, President Obama, Target, Globalization, California, Paris, Bernard Arnault, Luxury, Fashion Foreign Policy, Foreign Commercial Policy, Guilds, Trade Agreements, Rules of Origin, What Not to Wear, Export-Import Bank, Bailing Out Luxury, Carla Behrle, Loomstate, Private Equity, Artisans, America's Next Model, Nafta, Jennie Livingston, Outsourcing, Labor, Paris Is Burning, Worker Rights, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, LVMH Moet Hennessy, Dana Thomas, Culture Industry, Wto, Business News
Michael Likosky

To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.

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US Online Gambling Regulations Anger EU

GlobalPost | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

Read More: Gambling, Internet Gambling Regulations, Games, Wto, World Trade Organization, Internet Gambling, Internet Gambling Rules, Us Internet Gambling, World News

SAN FRANCISCO The European Union recently took a shot at the United States in little-noticed trade war over internet gambling, charging that the Unite...

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The US-India Business Council Comes of Age

Sunil Chacko | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

Read More: Minister Anand Sharma, Secretary Gary Locke, Ron Somers, Pepsico, Greg Kalbaugh, Indra K. Nooyi, US-India Business Council, Pfizer, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Raj Gandesha, David Simmons, Kamal Nath, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Ustr-Ron-Kirk, Dua Consulting, Phrma, David Mulford, Azim Premji, Doha Round, Rajiv Gandhi, Wto, White and Case LLP, Rahul Gandhi, Wipro, Indian Patents Act, Section 3(D), R&D, World News
Sunil Chacko

The overflow crowd at the US-India Business Council's "Synergies Summit" emphasized how positively different the Council has become from even a dozen years ago.

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How Sweet It Is... Brazil's Sugar Ethanol Fuels China's Recovery

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Brazil, Sugar Ethanol, Obama, Opec, Monroe Doctrine, Wal-Mart, Big Oil, Jim Owens, Agribusiness, Wto, Robert Zoellick, Ethanol, Caterpillar, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, China, Hugo Chavez, Petrobras, Imf, Energy, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Ethanol trade has helped make China Brazil's top trade partner, replacing Uncle Sam, who had been top dog ever since Herbert Hoover was in the White House.

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Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Intellectual Property, World Trade Organization, Monopolies, Environment, Climate Change, Wto, Pollution, Patents, Green News
Mark Weisbrot

It appears that international efforts to slow the pace of worldwide climate disruption could also run up against powerful interests who advocate a "fundamentalist" conception of intellectual property.

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Worse Spokespeople Than Bristol Palin

Warren Holstein | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Brady Campaign, Tea Party Protests, Wto, Bristol Palin Abstinence, Swine Flu Pandemic, Somali Pirates, Ron Paul, Swine Flu, George W. Bush, Nadya Suleman, Mexico, Rielle Hunter, Naacp, Dick Cheney, Noam Chomsky, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Politics, World Trade Organization, Swine Flu Mexico, Elizabeth Edwards, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, Rick Santelli, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin Levi Johnston, Tea Party, Bristol Palin, David Duke, Tea Bagging, Bristol Palin Baby, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

1. George W. Bush for RIF (Reading Is Fundamental). He's is not just the former president, he's a client.

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When the Left Went Teabagging: As You Chuckle at the Right's Newfound Activism, Don't Forget That the Left Sucked Balls for Years

Daniel Sinker | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teabagging, Wto, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Bag, Tax Day Tea Parties, Protests, Gop, Tea Parties, Republicans, Politics News
Daniel Sinker

Without two decades wandering the desert, we wouldn't have built the modern infrastructure that the left stands on now. So laugh if you want, but today's teabaggers may be tomorrow's resurgent Right.

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