WTO mediators float ways to save global trade pact
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Mediators at the World Trade Organization made a bid to salvage a global free trade deal on Tuesday by proposing compromises to overcome impasses in the key areas of agriculture and industrial goods.
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Negotiators gathered Friday at the World Trade Organization for formal farm talks, capping a weeklong series of informal discussions on ways to reach a wider-ranging liberalization accord by the end of 2005.
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WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) members have finally established a framework for negotiations to conclude the Doha Round. This is good news.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - Talks between trade powers to salvage world trade talks collapsed on Thursday, throwing the future of the World Trade Organisation's round into doubt.
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U.S. officials on Monday passed on a European plan to inject new life into stalled world trade talks, saying they would stick to informal discussions they've been holding since the Doha Round collapsed in July.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Trying to avert a trans-Atlantic trade war over government subsidies to Airbus, US and European negotiators found little to agree on Thursday during a five-hour meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
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Asia-Pacific leaders called for a speedy  resolution to stalled global trade talks on Sunday, pledging  flexibility and ambition to get the outline of a deal by year&#39;s  end.
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The World Trade Organization was expected to approve the imposition of $150 million in trade sanctions against the United States by the European Union, Japan, Canada and
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The last chance for a world trade  deal could slip away in the next few months unless India,  Brazil and other advanced developing countries offer meaningful  commitments to open their market to more foreign goods, U.S.  private sector experts said on Tuesday.
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Bloomberg - June 22 (Bloomberg) -- The collapse of World Trade Organization talks over a new global agreement leaves President George W. Bush without a lever to prod Congress to renew his trade promotion authority before it expires at the end of this month, lawmakers and business lobbyists say.
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Investor's Business Daily - Trade negotiators may be near a breakthrough, said U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab. The Bush administration is hoping, after over 6 years of fractious talks, to overcome divisions over tariffs, subsidies and other trade rules, and produce a new global pact before Pres. Bush leaves office. Rich nations want lower tariffs on industrial goods and services; poor nations want farm subsidies and tariffs scrapped.
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World Bank president Robert Zoellick backed Friday fresh proposals to drive the deadlocked round of World Trade Organization negotiations to a conclusion this year.
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A deal may still be salvaged from  collapsed world trade talks if President Bush can convince  Congress to renew his fast-track negotiating mandate, the  European Union's trade chief said on Monday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush hopes  to spur momentum for a world trade pact and a global target on  climate change at this week&#39;s Asia-Pacific summit but the Iraq  debate at home looms as a distraction.
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World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on a transatlantic row over plane subsidies will bring no quick fix for what could be the biggest commercial dispute in WTO history, officials and analysts warned on Wednesday.
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A key World Bank committee appealed to all countries, developed and developping, to take an active role in WTO multilateral trade liberalization talks scheduled to wrap by the end of the year.
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The four key players in the World Trade Organisation -- the United States, the European Union, Brazil and India -- arrived in Potsdam outside the German capital on Tuesday for critical talks to break deadlock over a global trade deal.