CEI Does Cancún
From September 10 through September 14, 2003, the World Trade Organization held its fifth Ministerial meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute was at the meeting, reporting on events and promoting free markets.
CEI MEDIA ADVISORIES
Anti-Globalization Movement in Retreat in Cancún (9/15/03)
World Focus on Trade Debate in Cancún (9/8/03)
CANCUN NEWS UPDATES
Sutton given key to ‘green room’
WTO Trade Talks Collapse in Mexico
Mexican Village Plays Host to Fight Over Genetically Modified Food
Protesters Defend Cause at Trade Talks
Activists See Powerful Message in WTO Protestor’s Suicide
From Annecy to Cancun, a short history of WTO
Amorim to Zoellick: who’s who in Cancún: Financial Times looks at Cancún’s major players
ABOUT THE WTO
List of WTO agreements (from WTO Web site)
Includes background on Doha
Site of the U.S. Trade Representative
Updated news articles from Cancún
CEI ATTENDEES
RELEVANT ARTICLES
Biotechnology
Precaution Into Law by James Pinkerton
Biotech Factsheet by CEI’s Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko En español.
The Benefits of Biotech; by CEI’s Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko. En español.
Brussels’ Bad Science Will Cost the World Dear Conko Op-Ed with Dr. Henry I. Miller
Precaution without Principle Conko Op-Ed with Dr. Miller
Biopirates of the Caribbean by Roger Bate
Free Trade
The Increasingly International Game of Antitrust by CEI Technology Counsel Braden Cox
Trade and Environment
Backgrounder on Basel Convention by CEI Adjunct Scholar James Shaheen
Testimony of Myron Ebell on Basel
The Environmental Source 2002: International Policy edited by Angela Logomasini and David Riggs
The Perils Of “Soft” And Unratified Treaty Commitments by Chris Horner
Water Wars by Roger Bate
Health
It’s Over…For Now by Roger Bate
Undone Deal? by Roger Bate
Agriculture
Fair Trade? For Whom? by Richard Tren
Beware the World Aid Organisation by Richard Tren
OTHER FREE MARKET GROUPS IN ATTENDANCE
Asociación de Consumidores Libres
Coalition for Truth in Environmental Marketing (CTEMI)
Consumer Alert (video presentation)
Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa
Hispanic American Center for Economic Research
International Chamber of Commerce
International Consumers for Civil Society
International Policy Network (IPN)
Liberty Institute (India)
National Association of Manufactures
National Foreign Trade Council