What is the future of the WTO specially when most members go to sign FTA's?
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IDK... WTF are you talking about?
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Importation of products, no problem.\n\nExportation of jobs.... big problem.
1029035
Nope.Most will recieve amnesty.
246694
Nobody knows the future...\nI can only hope that things will get better for the Cubians after Fidel passes on.
1021604
Mainly because the U.N. won't act in a manner in which it said it was supposed to when first chartered.  A few nations take the initiative to be involved when there should be a general agreement on handling these situations by the majority of the nations to be involved
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I've thought that for at least 10 years. The only problem is with the global economy, it is hard to not be involved in all these other countries.
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It has to do with Globalization.\n\nGlobalization is basically a free enterprise market between all participating nations. Think about it...\n\nIf you have a country that is in direct competition with another nation but your workers require wages that are far less than other nations, who has the advantage?\n\nSo yes they are the future.
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News  back to top\n\n7 November 2006 — General Council approves Viet Nam’s membership\nViet Nam is set to become the WTO’s 150th member following a decision by the General Council on 7 November 2006 to approve the Southeast Asian country’s membership agreement. “The remarkable efforts that Viet Nam has put into preparing for membership should be an inspiration to us all, as several members have observed,” WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said.
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international trade....go asian, such as singapore or hongkong....these are on a booming economy
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No and i will explain why. When they join the EU the whole economies will collapse. EU is nothing but trouble
947367
ooer... you might have sumthin in that. Back ere wif got the EU, and well, yer prez wants to expand the NAFTA... and in Asia they have the ASEAN economic region... \nscary but... who could tell 70 yars from now??
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One of the five pillars of EU membership is free movement of goods and people thoughout the member states.\n\nWe are not an island, as such and have not been since Thatcher signed us up for EU membership.  We are, for want of a better term, a part of the United States of Europe.  This means that you can go and work in Spain, Germany, etc.  If you want to (The standard of living + wages is definately better in some of the countries).\n\nWouldn't such a new law, allowing us to select who we want to apply EU law to be in breach of our own membership agreement?\n\nIt is quite simple.  If we do not want Romanians to work in UK, fight their application for EU membership.  Once they are EU members, it becomes an issue for the EU, not local states, as to who has the right to work where.\n\nGod, we have only been Europeans for 30 years now, you would think that most people would have read the bold print by now.
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Given the fact "trade rules" are created and implemented by the wealthiest nations (G8), it is highly unlikely poorer nations will derive any direct benefit from those rules.\n\nIf "free trade" was "fair trade," it might be possible; but it isn't, so it isn't.
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Are they part of the WTO{World Trade Organization} yet, generally that would be a stepping-stone.
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The US is the leader in presenting so-called "trade agreements" but ones that are designed to create low wage, low growth, high profit futures for corporations only (which destroys economies and people's lives) Poeple want they policy that is directed towards a high growth, high wage, more egalitarian forms of international integration.  The US blocks that always and installs their corporate agreements.  Trade agreements such as the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) locks in the power of Wall Street, eliminates tariffs and duties on trade, but also by dramatically strengthening the economic and political leverage of major corporations, and forces people to give up control over thier own affairs.  This is why the EU and the Latin American countries are lining up to oppose the US's role in the globalization situation.\n\nHowever, globalization is not all bad, the people of the US are being introduced to fair globalization with "immigrants rights" and international solidarity becoming major issues in the country.  This opening up of isolated markets with agreements also opens up society to the concerns of all people of the world, we care much more about Palestine, Venezuela, Mexico than ever before.  We are becoming international citizens which is a good thing.  \n\nThe challenge ahead will be to build the organizations and politics that can bring the necessary change from below to combat US intervantions which harm our fellow international brothers and sisters.
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I doubt it'll work out. They'll probably have future arguments about this. If one member submits to the other's requests, at least ONE of them will end up unhappy because they were "forced" into making that choice.
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it is slowly starting to happen.\n\nboarder laws and visa laws are relaxing\n\nEU is contently allowing more member countries soon most of Eastern Europe will have free movement, rights to work anywhere in Europe, access to health care.\n\nAlthough Wales, England and Scotland are different countries there are no boarders stopping the movement of people between them.\n\nI guess it is taking so long because counties whom consider them selves better (normally economically) then others are not always willing to share as it may decrease their average standard of living or economic strengths