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Walker's World: The new trade wars

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 29 (UPI) -- The world was supposed to have learned its lesson from the 1930s, that trade protectionism is a dangerous tool that can make everybody poorer and turn recession into full-blown depression. But non-tariff ways of manipulating trade flows are spreading ominously.

World trade on track for 9 percent decline

BRUSSELS, March 24 (UPI) -- The volume of world trade will likely fall 9 percent in 2009, the largest contraction in more than 50 years, the World Trade Organization said.

WTO worried about developing economies

LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization warned the global financial downturn was throwing economies in the Third World into potentially dangerous disarray.

WTO opens key talks on cotton exports

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization said talks on the cotton market that opened in Geneva Tuesday were a key to promoting development in the Third World.

Lamy picks Uganda to press trade talks

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Uganda will coordinate the World Trade Organization's African effort to advance talks to lower trade barriers, a Ugandan official said Thursday.

WTO invites Vietnam to join

HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization has formally invited Vietnam to join the global body.

WTO's Doha round of talks: R.I.P.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization's effort for a global free trade deal appeared dead in Geneva, Switzerland, with African cotton farmers at greatest risk. After 14 hours of negotiations Sunday, talks reconvened Monday, only to collapse again. That is when WTO

WTO to rich nations: Can your subsidies

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The latest report on international commerce from Switzerland's World Trade Organization says rich nation subsidies hurt global wealth creation.

WTO chief despairs Doha talks failure

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 3 (UPI) -- Failed weekend talks on the World Trade Organization's Doha treaty have threatened the entire future of the anti-poverty measure, the WTO's chief says.

WTO talks hit impasse in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 1 (UPI) -- World Trade Organization states failed to break a deadlock on a new global trade treaty Saturday and India's trade minister left for home. The talks reached an impasse after the U.S. and other farm exporters clashed with the European Union, India and othe

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