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Georgia on his mind

...Kremlin boss' performance at a business forum in Moscow Thursday. Asked whether Russia was likely to join the World Trade Organization in the next several months - as both his trade minister and the Obama administration predicted after talks in...

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The 800-pound gorilla

...judges that Clinton has done a poor job of relationship management. He's furious about the bungling of the World Trade Organization issue: ''U.S. policy on China and the WTO has fluctuated wildly. China's admission is possible by the...

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Seize the deal

...Sperling announced that the United States and China had reached an accord on terms for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our negotiating team deserves accolades for retrieving a breathtaking offer by China that President...

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Foreign policy battles looming

...the fights are shaping up as lively ones. House Democrats find themselves divided on China's entry into the World Trade Organization. While the deal the Clinton administration negotiated generally is supported by Republicans in both chambers...

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Clinton ready to sign budget package today

...Clinton, who is heading west on Tuesday for fund-raising in California and the opening of the contentious World Trade Organization talks in Seattle. Aides say that with Congress out of town, much of the president's activity will be aimed...

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Wellstone condemns protesters; Ramstad gets whiff of tear gas

SEATTLE (AP) -- Congressmen from Minnesota got a close-up view of protests against the World Trade Organization. Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., said he got a whiff of tear gas Tuesday while walking to a downtown hotel. ''It got my eyes...

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WTO woes

...steel workers, chicken farmers and vegetarians. The same environmentalists, for example, who excoriated the World Trade Organization for violating American sovereignty by overriding clean air laws also wants to use the trade law to force Brazil...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/120699/opi_1206990015.shtml
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Open Forum

...International trade has occurred for thousands of years, and has thrived and expanded without the benefit of a World Trade Organization and its associated treaties and agreements. The WTO is not about trade, it is about changing laws around the...

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Trade worries added to congressional farm agenda

...a new item to the list of agricultural concerns farm-state lawmakers are likely to address next year: the World Trade Organization's failure to agree on a new round of negotiations. The House Agriculture Committee, which is planning a series...

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The trade issue won't go away

...concessions they sought, the Clinton administration committed this country to supporting China's membership in the World Trade Organization--the global arbiter of trade disputes. It will be sometime in the spring, White House officials told me...

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