WTO

  • Nov 13, 2002
  • 6 min read

CHINA: IPR enforcement faces multiple challenges

Foreign pharmaceutical firms have complained that piracy is affecting the profitability of their...

China
  • Nov 11, 2002
  • 7 min read

LATIN AMERICA: FTAA deadline will be hard to meet

While the passage of trade promotion authority legislation in the United States earlier this...

Latin America
  • Nov 11, 2002
  • 6 min read

CHINA: Why private savings may elude foreign banks

China's pool of household domestic savings exceeds 1 trillion dollars. Domestic banks will begin...

China
  • Nov 7, 2002
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WEST AFRICA: Trade policies, low prices harm cotton

Price supports for cotton farmers in developed countries, especially the United States, are...

West Africa
  • Nov 7, 2002
  • 6 min read

CHINA: Weak enforcement lets counterfeit grow

China has updated its intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation....

China
  • Nov 7, 2002
  • 5 min read

RUSSIA: Recovery continues, despite gloomy Bank finds

Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov last week called on the cabinet to take urgent measures to...

Russia
  • Nov 6, 2002
  • 7 min read

TAIWAN: Further trade liberalisation needed

Although Taipei has pursued increased trade liberalisation and completed its first year of WTO...

Taiwan
  • Oct 29, 2002
  • 7 min read

UNITED STATES: Wariness at work in export subsidy row

Congress recessed this month without reaching agreement on how to respond to a WTO ruling that a...

United States