20 Years of GMO Policy That Keeps Americans in the Dark About Their Food
Wed, 30 May 2012 07:35:09 -0700

These positions are spelled out by Codex Alimentarius, the food safety standards organization of the United Nations, which the World Trade Organization considers to be the global, science -based standards, and thus immune to trade challenges.

US Solar Tariffs on Chinese Cells May Boost Prices
Thu, 17 May 2012 16:32:32 -0700

China criticized the action, saying the US is hurting itself and cooperation between the world's two largest economies. The decision is meant to provide a boost to the US solar manufacturing industry, where four companies filed for bankruptcy in the ...

Is Jordanian Uprising a Threat to King Abdullah's Rule?
Sun, 27 May 2012 06:27:14 -0700

Jordan joined the World Trade Organization and signed a free trade agreement with the United States. But these steps have offered little protection from the global economic slowdown and resulting rise in oil prices. Regional instability has reduced gas ...

China's Control Of Rare Earth Export Seeks Compromise With The West
Sat, 05 May 2012 18:59:24 -0700

13, 2012, President Obama filed a complaint with Japan and the European Union at the World Trade Organization over the Chinese export quota policy on rare earth metal. The metal is needed to manufacture a wide range of high-tech products- from the ...

Financial Services Legislative And Regulatory Update -- May 21, 2012
Tue, 22 May 2012 15:17:05 -0700

The news last week was clearly dominated by JP Morgan?s trading loss. However, while we anticipate that the bank will be in the forefront of the news for a few more weeks, it seems that any substantive impacts from the event will come from the ...

ACTA: The Public Revolt
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:58:56 -0700

The World Trade Organization's 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was the first agreement to introduce intellectual property rules to the multilateral trading system. This was prior to any widespread use of ...

Protesters gearing up for NATO summit
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:18:13 -0700

By ryan haggerty, david heinzmann and robert mccoppin chicago Tribune No matter their agenda, people who share a dissatisfaction with the world's political and economic status quo have begun to flow into Chicago from around the country and even ...

Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will
Tue, 29 May 2012 14:37:48 -0700

His view is that he's responsible for the position of the United States in the world . He added, He's determined to keep the tether pretty short. Nothing else in Mr. Obama's first term has baffled liberal supporters and confounded conservative ...

The Next Putin Presidency
Fri, 04 May 2012 06:42:31 -0700

The economic ministry is proposing more spending on health, on education, and science , in an effort to improve human capital and encourage innovation and address long-neglected infrastructure needs. The changes being proposed in each area are not so ...

Business in brief 26/5
Fri, 25 May 2012 17:03:23 -0700

New Delhi has lodged a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization ( WTO ). The Ministry of Finance will run an inspection into the price registration and commission allocation of six fuel wholesalers between late May and early July.

Jeffrey Sachs interview: In scramble for resources, tension builds
Sun, 13 May 2012 12:03:25 -0700

There really is a multispeed world economy. It's putting a lot of stress on the world because old patterns of trade and growth have to change. Asia, of course, grew on the basis of rapid exports to Europe and the United States.

Leading Companies Contradict Own Actions on Climate Science , Policy
Wed, 30 May 2012 09:12:18 -0700

Washington (May 30, 2012) Many of the country's leading companies have taken contradictory actions when it comes to climate change science while pumping a tremendous amount of resources into influencing the discussion, according to an analysis ...

The Real Fallout From Argentina's Nationalization Of YPF Sociedad Anonima
Wed, 09 May 2012 10:29:03 -0700

The remaining 17% is distributed between smaller institutional and non-institutional shareholders and will continue trading on the Buenos Aires and New York stock exchanges. A key reason driving the government's nationalization of YPF was the need to ...

Emanuel Declares NATO Summit A Success
Tue, 22 May 2012 08:35:40 -0700

"By hosting NATO and the NATO summit, we have reinforced, reaffirmed and revitalized Chicago's role on the world stage," Emanuel declared Monday, his first public comments in four days. "While Chicago has the title of second city, because of the NATO ...

10 years after: taking stock of China's WTO membership
Fri, 11 May 2012 19:05:50 -0700

China's accession into the WTO in 2001 sparked fierce debate as to its consequences for China's development, the impact on (un)employment in economically advanced states, and the effect on the international devision of labor.

Reduced community access in US TPP trade negotiations
Tue, 08 May 2012 23:07:11 -0700

The 12th round of Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP) negotiations begins in Dallas, Texas today between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam, amid criticism by fair trade groups and prominent lawyers.

What Believers and Atheists Can Learn From Each Other
Wed, 30 May 2012 09:56:47 -0700

But one bright person interested in broadening the conversation is Sam Mc Nerney, a science writer who focuses on cognitive science and an atheist interested in religion from a psychological point of view. I found Sam through his writing on ...

West and Russia have to coexist
Tue, 22 May 2012 00:10:21 -0700

In 2007, he was nominated as the world's most influential person by Time magazine. Two years later, Forbes ranked him second after Barak Obama. Mr Putin's return (many believe he never really went away) was marred by accusations of vote rigging.

Michael Mc Faul: The first 100 days in Moscow as an ambassador
Fri, 11 May 2012 09:22:30 -0700

I was very pleased to participate recently in a lively roundtable, organized by the Federation Council and hosted by Mikhail Margelov, on issues related to Russia's WTO accession and Jackson-Vanik. Some of the agenda items in these meetings have been ...

Gas Battle Heats Up In Australia
Mon, 28 May 2012 18:45:32 -0700

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) state that by 2016, worldwide trade in LNG will have reached 230 million tons. Australian LNG production is set to increase markedly, with developments such as the ...