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How the WTO in Seattle Changed Policing and Protesting...few could imagine what the long term impact would be. One thing it's done is change how police now approach mass demonstrations. KPLU Law and Justice Reporter Paula Wissel has the final story in our series "The WTO in Seattle: 10 years later." In this article: World Trade Organization and Seattle |
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PBS | 1 day ago
WTO in Seattle, Ten Years Later: A Reporter's Notebook
...from the same hymnal. During the five-day conference, labor unions organized a permitted protest march to voice their fear that the WTO was setting up trade rules that ignored worker's rights. Activists from a wide range of groups saw...
In this article: Seattle, Ralph Nader, Banana, United Methodist Church, Paul Schell, and Bill Clinton
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WTO in Seattle: 10 Years Later
...and Steve Krueger (2009-11-23) Ten years ago next week, Seattle hosted a gathering of the World Trade Organization. It was the WTO's first meeting in an American city and the events that came with it made the city synonymous with...
In this article: Seattle, United States, Seattle Police Department, Weyerhaeuser, and Boeing
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Reuters | 2 days ago
UPDATE 3-US arms buyer keeping WTO dispute out of tanker bids
...(is to make sure) that the taxpayer is held harmless in respect of any damages that end up being awarded in any of the cases before the WTO," he told a group of reporters. In September, the Pentagon said the WTO findings were preliminary...
In this article: Pentagon, Boeing Co, Airbus, United States, Northrop, Northrop Grumman, and EADS
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US arms buyer spurns call to include WTO in tanker bids
The Pentagon's chief arms buyer spurned pressure from Boeing Co <BA.N> allies in Congress to factor a recent World Trade Organization ruling against Airbus into the multibillion-dollar competition to supply mid-air refueling aircraft to the...
In this article: Pentagon, Airbus, Boeing Co, Northrop Grumman Corp, U.S. Air Force, and EADS
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UK bank bail-out may have broken WTO rules-report
...as a result of the bank bail out, Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organisation, told the Sunday Telegraph. Lamy said the WTO will likely examine whether countries that bailed out their banks did so on the...
In this article: WTO, UK, European country, Credit crunch, Lloyds TSB, HBOS, and Royal Bank of Scotland
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Telegraph.co.uk - Business | 4 days ago
Britain's bank bailout may have broken rules says WTO
...in Geneva Published: 8:39PM GMT 21 Nov 2009 Word Trade Organisation head Pascal Lamy Photo: AFP Under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, the Government may have been guilty of financial protectionism when it rescued Royal Bank of...
In this article: WTO, Royal Bank of Scotland, UK, Doha Round, The Sunday Telegraph, Lloyds, Gordon Brown, and Stipulation
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washingtonpost.com | 6 days ago
WTO authorizes Brazil sanctions over U.S. cotton
...which U.S. products to target and analyses U.S. data on subsidies which will determine the size of retaliation. The formal move at the WTO's dispute settlement body (DSB) brought Brazil one step closer to retaliating against the United...
In this article: Brazil, United States, Fiscal year, Washington, Arbitration award, Doha round, Geneva, and Reuters
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Side talks on services could spur WTO: U.S. nominee
...side talks with key partners on services trade as a way to spur flagging World Trade Organization talks, the Obama administration's nominee for WTO ambassador said. The Doha round of trade talks, which began in 2001, has stalled on...
In this article: United States, Doha round, Doha, China, Islam, and Ron Kirk
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Russia wants quick WTO entry as separate entity
...Putin in June when he said Russia would join only as part of the customs union -- an unprecedented move for the WTO. "We want the WTO talks to go quickly and be concluded soon," Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the EU, told...
In this article: Russia, European Union, Vladimir Putin, Recession, and Moscow
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement, replacing the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1947. The World Trade Organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalising trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants' adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments. Most of the issues that the WTO focuses on derive from previous trade negotiations, especially from the Uruguay Round (1986-1994). The organization is currently endeavouring to persist with a trade negotiation called the Doha Development Agenda (or Doha Round), which was launched in 2001 to enhance equitable participation of poorer countries which represent a majority of the world's population. However, the negotiation has been dogged by "disagreement between exporters of agricultural bulk commodities and countries with large numbers of subsistence farmers on the precise terms of a 'special safeguard measure' to protect farmers from surges in imports. At this time, the future of the Doha Round is uncertain."
The WTO has 153 members, representing more than 95% of total world trade and 30 observers, most seeking membership. The WTO is governed by a ministerial conference, meeting every two years; a general council, which implements the conference's policy decisions and is responsible for day-to-day administration; and a director-general, who is appointed by the ministerial conference. The WTO's headquarters is at the Centre William Rappard, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Name:
- Organización Mundial del Comercio
- Headquarters:
- Centre William Rappard, Geneva, Switzerland
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1995
- Head:
- Pascal Lamy
- Members:
- 153 member states
- Language:
- English, French, Spanish
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