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GENEVA – The U.S. appealed on Thursday its own victory in a landmark trade ruling against European subsidies for planemaker Airbus, asking the World Trade Organization to toughen its condemnation of the EU's financial meddling in a market worth more than $3 trillion over the next two decades. Details of the appeal weren't immediately made public. But U.S. trade spokeswoman Nefeterius McPherson confirmed that Washington had joined Brussels in challenging findings from June's 1,061-page verdict, which found that Airbus gained an unfair advantage over U.S. competitor Boeing Co. through billions worth of low-interest loans, infrastructure provisions, and research and development...

India terms US visa fee-hike plan ‘overwhelmingly protectionist' Visa wrangle If the Bill is enacted then it can be challenged in WTO, say lawyers The Bill reportedly aims to raise $600 million to boost surveillance along the US-Mexico border by hiking visa fee Arun S. New Delhi, Aug. 9 The US Border Security Bill that aims to increase H-1B and L-1 visa fees reflects an “overwhelmingly protectionist frame of mind” and will raise “very serious questions” as it targets a particular set of companies, India has said. The affected companies would mainly be from the Information-Technology sector, including Tata, Infosys...

WTO backs China in U.S. chicken import row: (Reuters) - A World Trade Organization panel has ruled in favor of China in its dispute with the United States over an effective U.S. ban on imports of Chinese chicken, a Chinese source said on Tuesday. The WTO issued a ruling in the poultry dispute to the two parties on Monday, but it remains confidential until it is published in a couple of months time. There was no official comment from Chinese or U.S. authorities. Asked whether China had won the case, the source, who is familiar with the ruling, told Reuters:...

Our exporters are losing ground. The president should act on the trade agreements with Colombia and others. More than three years ago the United States and Colombia signed a trade agreement that would reduce or eliminate tariffs on most U.S. exports to Colombia. Unfortunately the agreement has been languishing ever since, and it is still waiting on the president to submit it to Congress. In the time since it was negotiated, American exporters have paid over $2.8 billion in tariffs that would have been eliminated under the agreement. While we continue to dither and our exporters continue to pay the...

The World Trade Organization on Wednesday faulted the European Union for providing cheap loans to Airbus to help lower its cost for developing new airplanes and take market share from Boeing Co. It's a clear victory for the Chicago-based manufacturer, providing the company with precedence to disrupt similar funding for the up-and-coming A350XWB, which will compete with its 787 Dreamliner. It could also help the company to score a $35 billion U.S. contract to replace the military's aging aerial-refueling fleet. "The ruling shows the WTO works and it can understand the aerospace industry," said Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia, who...

GENEVA – The World Trade Organization ruled Wednesday that European governments gave planemaker Airbus illegal subsidies in its battle with U.S. competitor Boeing Co., in a first key ruling on a long-running dispute between the European Union and Washington. Made public three months after it was delivered to U.S. and EU trade officials, the WTO's decision runs 1,061 pages over the question of whether the European Union unfairly abetted Airbus' rise to world No. 1 planemaker. Interpreting the ruling isn't easy, because the governments and companies have had months to prepare statements that cite different parts of the decision, with...

NOTE The following text is a quote: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-and-president-medvedev-russia-us-russia-business-summit Home • Briefing Room • Speeches & Remarks The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release June 24, 2010 Remarks by President Obama and President Medvedev of Russia at the U.S.-Russia Business Summit U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 3:08 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, good afternoon, everybody. It is a pleasure to be here with my friend and partner, President Medvedev, and I want to thank him again for his leadership, especially his vision for an innovative Russia that’s modernizing its economy, including deeper economic ties between our...

WTO rules against US ban on China poultry products K J M Varma Beijing, June 17 (PTI) China won the dispute with the US over a ban on its poultry imports after the World Trade Organisation ruled the American curbs on Chinese poultry were violating international trade laws, says a media report. State newspaper, China Daily said in a report the US ban violated Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Agreement, that mandates how governments can apply food safety, animal and plant health measures, as well as most-favored-nation treatment and general elimination of quantitative restrictions provided under the WTO framework. As...

Boeing backs legislation by Kansas senator (Recasts with legislation from Kansas senator, Boeing Co (BA.N) is actively promoting a bill that would force the Pentagon to consider World Trade Organization decisions when deciding on defense contracts like a $50 billion airplane competition between Boeing and its European rival, Airbus parent EADS (EAD.PA). Kevin Rozelsky, Boeing's director of legislative affairs, has approached some U.S. senators about supporting the bill, which Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback plans to introduce on Thursday, according to an email obtained by Reuters and verified by a congressional aide. Boeing and its supporters have argued that the...

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Leaked documents reveal draft text of secret global copyright deal ) OTTAWA — As negotiators from 37 countries prepare to meet in New Zealand on Monday to discuss a top-secret trade agreement, a draft text of the document has found its way onto the Internet. While bits and pieces of the agreement, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), have been leaked in the past, this is the first time a full draft is available to the public. The agreement, negotiated privately for the better part of two years, aims to create a global organization to oversee worldwide copyright and intellectual...

As the Senate left for vacation last week after intense debates on health care, job creation and student aid, President Barack Obama appointed fifteen long standing nominees, including Michael Punke, J.D. ’89, and Mark Pearce ’76. Appointing these individuals now, while the Senate is in its spring recess, allowed the president to circumvent the usual Senate confirmation hearings, which are often subject to intense political machinations.

Boeing’s biggest supporters roared out of the gate Tuesday after the World Trade Organization issued a final ruling that Airbus enjoyed unfair subsidies from European governments. “Enough is enough. For too long, workers in Washington state have had to fight an uphill battle. Instead of competing just with Airbus, they’ve been forced to compete with the deep pockets of European governments that supply Airbus with illegal launch aid,” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said in a statement. Then she aimed straight at the tanker competition. “It’s clear that the A330, the very plane Airbus would offer our military, has received...

Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June-August of this year (2005). After that U.S. supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (Food Code) is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. They will be enforced by the WTO and will over ride U.S. laws. The U.S. President and Congress agreed to this take-over when the WTO Treaty was signed. Violations are punished by WTO trade sanctions. CODEX drastically restricts vitamins, minerals, herbs and other supplements. CODEX...

That sounds dramatic - even drastic. But is it? There's an argument raised over at "Washington's Blog" that the real cause of all the financial problems -the global mess - is the WTO: On March 1, 1999, countries accounting for more than 90 per cent of the global financial services market signed onto the World Trade Organization's Financial Services Agreement (FSA). By signing the FSA, they committed to deregulate their financial markets. But let's be straight here. "Deregulate" does not give license to fraud, even though there are some who would argue otherwise. The root issue with all of these...

Trilateral Commission member Lykke Friis will head and chair the United Nations Copenhagen meeting in December, this confirms that there will be a pushing towards a new world order, when it is not someone from Bilderberg heading some government agenda then we see people from the Trilateral commission running things. Mario Borghezio ranted the other day at the lack of transparency in the EU government as the head and the first president of the EU is a also a Bilderberg member that was not elected by the people of the EU but rather selected by a group of secretive globalists....

November 30, 2009: Today is the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle. This is not a call to arms for anarchist thugs, but to remember their actions that day 10 years earlier. I am willing to discuss with FRiends about the day that generated worldwide attention and left downtown Seattle a scarred battlefield - 11/30. Many people across the world, even the anarchists themselves, saw the Battle of Seattle as a 'war' against globalism - the globalist nature of the WTO. Here is an article about the 10th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle and how the American right...

On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change expert, gave a presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN in which he issued a dire warning regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty which is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009. .. Video 4:11 min

Jerome Corsi and Sean Hannity discuss how American sovereignty is being sold out. Who the main players are and their agenda to Globalization. Corsi calls Obama Post- America. Describing him as an Internationalist. Obama is going along with the agenda giving away sovereighnty in recent G20 and IMF agreements.

Willard PARIS (Reuters) - Persuading Europe, the United States and China to accept International Monetary Fund advice on economic polices may be difficult, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Monday. The United States wants a discussion of a broad framework to solve the world's economic imbalances at a summit of G20 leaders in Pittsburgh on Thursday and Friday. The IMF would be charged with sketching out a plan and then checking whether each country was making progress. But in the past many countries have ignored advice dished out in regular reviews by the IMF. G7 sources told Reuters...