Proposed negotiations on e-commerce in the WTO are inconvenient for developing countries, for our SMEs and for people in general. by Sally Burch, dec 2017
Professor Drahos: "So farmers, librarians, educators, cultural innovators, young people who want to culturally innovate, who want to parody for example a trade mark and suddenly find themselves threatened become theyre making fun of somebody. I mean there are so many people that have an interest in this. We live in a networked world. I see more and more networking amongst NGOs. I think there is a growing sense in which we have to realize we are not alone. That we can fight back."
Par Zaki Laïdi, directeur de recherche au Centre d'études européennes de Sciences Po, Le monde 15.3.2013: " Les Etats-Unis ont fait le choix politique de tirer un trait sur le multilatéralisme, et Obama n'a fait qu'amplifier ce mouvement. L'Europe doit-elle forcément les suivre dans cette voie sans l'assumer politiquement et sans en mesurer toutes les implications ?" "Si cet accord venait à voir le jour rapidement, il faut tout d'abord prendre conscience qu'il mettra à terre le système commercial multilatéral organisé autour de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC)."
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has obtained from Wikileaks a complete copy of the consolidated negotiating text for the IP Chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). (Copy here, and on the Wikileaks site here: https://wikileaks.org/tpp/) The leaked text was distributed among the Chief Negotiators by the USTR after the 19th Round of Negotiations at Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, in August 27th, 2013.
The WTO and the Global War System Susan George Mark Ritchie Alice Slater Steven Staples November 28, 1999 Hildebrand Hall, Plymouth Congregational Church Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Forum proceedings edited by Estelle Taylor Northwest Disarmament Coalition "Globalization is creating a three-track society in which there will be the exploiters, the exploited and the outcasts, the people who are not even worth exploiting. "
a paper (2003) by Bhagirath Lal Das (an international authority on trade and WTO issues) on the implications of this and the position that developing counties can take.
Devinder Sharma, NEW DELHI, Nov 28 2013 : "India, a country which lived in the shadows of a ship-to-mouth existence when food would go directly from the ship to hungry mouths has over the years emerged self-sufficient in food production. This historic turnaround was possible only because India had adopted the two planks of what I call a remarkable famine-avoidance strategy: providing farmers with an assured price support for their produce, and introducing a food procurement system that provided for a guaranteed market and at the same time helped get food to the poor in the deficit regions through a network of ration shops. Withdrawing the price support for farmers or freezing it at the de-minimis level of 10 percent as applicable under the Agreement on Agriculture will make farmers vulnerable to the vagaries of the market."