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BT Cotton Remains Highly Controversial in India
Controversy continues to rage over the cultivation of Bt cotton in India following serious doubts raised by the Agriculture Ministry’s Standing Parliamentary Committee regarding the crop’s efficacy. The cotton variety, genetically modified to resist bollworm, has also come under strong criticism from civil society groups who released findings to show that the crop had failed…
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GMO Update: EU-US, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil
Possible EU-US biotech dispute still brewing Following the end of the Iraq war, voices are again growing louder in the US calling on the administration to challenge the continued EU de facto moratorium on the approval of genetically modified organisms (GMO) at the WTO. In a letter to USTR Robert Zoellick, Senator Cuck Grassley (Rep),…
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China Cracks Down on Endangered Species Trade to Combat SARS
The Chinese government has begun to crack down on trade in endangered species as part of its battle to halt the global spread of the SARS virus, which some experts believe might have originated from wild game consumed in China although the link has yet to be proven. As part of the…
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US Attacks EU over Tuna Fishing
In a letter to EU officials dated 25 April, US Commerce Secretary Don Evans warned the EU that its continued “overfishing” of Atlantic tuna stocks could lead to new trade frictions between the US and EU, raising the possibility of trade sanctions if the EU did not reduce its harvest. “I…
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G-8 Environment Ministers Set Priorities for Upcoming SummitG-8 Environment Ministers Set Priorities for Upcoming Summit
The Environment Ministers of the G-8, the eight major industrialised countries plus the EU, met in Paris on the weekend to discuss environmental priorities for the upcoming G-8 Summit to be held in Evian, France, on 1-3 June. As the “priority fields for action”, Ministers identified access to safe drinking water…
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In Brief
In Brief CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON ENDANGERED SPECIES TRADE TO COMBAT SARS The Chinese government has begun to crack down on trade in endangered species as part of its battle to halt the global spread of the SARS virus, which some experts believe might have originated from wild game consumed in China although the link has…
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Events
For a more comprehensive list of events in trade and sustainable development, please refer to ICTSD’s web calendar. Please bear in mind that dates and times of WTO meetings are often changed, and that the WTO does not always announce the important informal meetings of the different bodies. Coming up in the next two weeks 28 April…
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Resources
POST-MARKET OVERSIGHT OF BIOTECH FOODS - IS THE SYSTEM PREPARED? Commissioned by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and prepared by for the Future, April 2003. The report concludes that the current regulatory oversight system for agricultural biotechnology in the US is focused mainly on pre-market approval and that there are potential vulnerabilities in…