Trade powers launch new WTO push, U.S. hopeful
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Trade powers launched an eleventh-hour effort to rescue global trade talks on Tuesday as negotiators prepared for what the United States called a critical week.
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BRUSSELS (CP) - World Trade Organization arbitrators Tuesday authorized the European Union and other leading U.S. trade partners to impose sanctions against the United States in response to anti-dumping rules.
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Negotiators on Friday were set to plan their next steps at the World Trade Organization after key talks between four leading powers collapsed, casting doubt on whether a long-sought free trade pact can be clinched.
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After talks among trading powers  collapsed last month, the United States singled out a new  consensus on food aid as a bright spot in an otherwise bleak  negotiation threatening to derail a world trade deal.
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India, Brazil and other large  developing countries &quot;need to step up&quot; in world trade talks and  make the market-opening concessions needed to reach a deal, a  top U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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The European Union's top trade official said Monday he would move to lift millions of euros (dollars) in punitive tariffs on U.S. goods following the repeal in Washington of corporate tax breaks that were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization.
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President Bush's second administration is committed to relaunching stalled world trade talks and the possibility of lifting some 300 million people out of poverty, a senior U.S. official said Saturday.
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GENEVA - The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation yesterday into allegations China is providing a safe haven for product piracy and counterfeiting, the most far-reaching of four current trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.
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The U.S. and South Korea will begin a third round of free-trade talks, hoping to make progress toward an accord that could be the biggest of its kind for the U.S. since the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993.
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Pacific Rim trading nations said on Wednesday they should pool their influence to energize talks to free up world trade. As trade and foreign ministers from the 21-member Asia-Pacific
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SANTIAGO: A new global free trade deal is possible by 2005/2006 with help from the major Asia-Pacific trading powers, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick has said.
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BRUSSELS The World Trade Organization is expected to approve on Friday the imposition of trade sanctions worth $150 million on the United States by the European Union, Japan, Canada and others after a legal issue was resolved Thursday.
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The U.S., European Union and Canada said they planned to ask the W.T.O. to investigate whether China has unfairly raised tariffs on imported auto parts.
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BEIJING -- The United States and China are launching a new high-level economic dialogue meant to repair relations soured by trade tensions, U S Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and a Chinese leader said yesterday.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday  said he hopes to present Congress with a new world trade deal  before leaving office in January 2009.
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The United States and Canada have joined the European Union in asking the World Trade Organization (WTO) to rule in a dispute with China over import tariffs on auto parts, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab has revealed.
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The World Trade Organization's (WTO) 150 states backed on Wednesday a call for a full-scale resumption of the Doha round of free trade talks, suspended six months ago due to deep divisions between members.