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World Trade Organization holds elections for top spot
Candidates from nine mainly developing nations face off this week for the job of reviving stalled global trade talks as the new head of the World Trade Organization. Six men and three women, many of them current or former government ministers, have thrown their hat into the ring to replace…
Candidates from nine countries vie to head World Trade Organization
Nine countries have presented candidates to succeed Pascal Lamy as head of the World Trade Organisation ahead of the deadline Monday. The last candidate was Roberto Azevedo, Brazil’s envoy to the WTO, whose name was put forth on Friday. He has been with the world’s trade oversight body since 2008.…
Mexico nominates NAFTA negotiator to lead World Trade Organization
Mexico has nominated a former minister who led the country’s negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement to take over the helm of the World Trade Organization, the WTO said Saturday. Herminio Blanco Mendoza is a 62-year-old economist who served as Mexico’s chief NAFTA negotiator from 1990-93, and as…
Putin signs Russia into World Trade Organization
President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed the bill ratifying Russia’s entry to the World Trade Organization after 18 years of often acrimonious negotiations, the Kremlin press office said. Economists have long argued that Russia needed to join the WTO as it was the only major economy outside the body —…
U.S. officials urge Congress to end trade curbs on Russia
WASHINGTON — US officials Wednesday upped pressure on Congress to scrap a decades-old law imposing trade restrictions on Moscow and predicted Russia could complete legal moves to join the WTO by late August. US Trade Representative Ron Kirk told US lawmakers that a 1974 law, the Jackson-Vanik amendment, under which…
U.S. told ban on clove cigarettes violates WTO rules
The World Trade Organization on Wednesday threw out Washington’s appeal against Jakarta’s claim that US rules banning the sale of Indonesian clove cigarettes infringed international trade rules. Washington had banned the production and sale of clove cigarettes under a health act that also blocks the sales of other cigarettes with…
U.S. appeals ruling against dolphin-safe tuna labels
WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday appealed a World Trade Organization decision that accuses Washington of imposing overly stringent rules on dolphin-safe tuna from Mexico. “Our dolphin-safe labeling measures for tuna products provide information for American consumers as they make food purchasing decisions for their families,” Andrea Mead, a…
Canada, Mexico ‘victory’ in US meat label dispute
Canada and Mexico on Friday largely won a trade dispute against the United States over its regulation requiring country-of-origin labels for meat. The countries claimed the US policy discriminated against their cattle, lowered prices and restricted trade in the case brought before the World Trade Organization. A dispute panel ruled on Friday that the labelling…
Trade war? Bill would ban government from buying Chinese
WASHINGTON  The US government would be barred from buying any Chinese goods or services under legislation unveiled Friday by US senators angry at Beijing’s policy of buying only from domestic sources. The prohibition would last until China, a World Trade Organization (WTO) member for nearly 10 years, signs on…
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