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Topic: General Pascal Lamy

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WTO says global trade will pick up in 2010
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 26 (UPI) -- World Trade Organization economists in Switzerland estimated global trade would grow 9.5 percent in 2010, coming off the worst decline in decades.
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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“ Trade can be a potent tool in lifting the world from these economic doldrums, ”
World trade on track for 9 percent decline
United Press International
“ Add to this the fact that the crisis is also impacting negatively on external sources of funds, such as foreign direct investment or remittances, which greatly contribute to these economies, and you have a recipe for a potentially explosive economic and social situation, ”
WTO worried about developing economies
United Press International
“ The time has come to deliver on the promise of a fairer global trading system for cotton, ”
WTO opens key talks on cotton exports
United Press International
“ While we may be seeing the bottom of the economic crisis, we have not yet seen its full social impact, which will inevitably trigger negative political pressures on the trade front. I personally believe, and I want to share this very openly with you, that the 'stress test' of the multilateral trading system is still to come. ”
Walker's World: The new trade wars
United Press International
“ In this case, it is military equipment and the rules of international trade do not apply, ”
WTO won't rule on U.S. tanker conflict
United Press International
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