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From September 10 through September 14, the World Trade Organization will hold its fifth Ministerial meeting in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Cancún, Mexico. The Competitive Enterprise Institute will be at the meeting, reporting on events and promoting free markets. Please look below for a list of trade-related links.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
A-V LINKS
Consumer Alert’s Video Presentation [2]
CANCUN NEWS UPDATES (Sept. 15)
Sutton given key to 'green room' [3]
WTO Trade Talks Collapse in Mexico [4]
Mexican Village Plays Host to Fight Over Genetically Modified Food [5]
Protesters Defend Cause at Trade Talks [8]
Activists See Powerful Message in WTO Protestor's Suicide [9]
From Annecy to Cancun, a short history of WTO [10]
Amorim to Zoellick: who's who in Cancún [11]: Financial Times looks at Cancún’s major players
Annan Decries Trade Policies [12]
CEI MEDIA ADVISORIES
Please click here [13] to read about CEI’s participation in the week’s events.
Anti-Globalization Movement in Retreat in Cancun [14]
Four Groups, Including CEI, Provide Food Aid to Impoverished Villagers [15]
En espanol [16]
Fred Smith, Jr. Presentation, Friday, September 12 [17]
CEI WEBLOG!
Click here [18] to read about exciting developments in “CEI Does Cancún.”
ABOUT THE WTO
List of WTO agreements [19] (from WTO Web site)
WTO Cancun Web site [20]
Includes background on Doha
Site of the U.S. Trade Representative [21]
Updated news articles from Cancún
Directorate General Trade EU [22]
CEI ATTENDEES
Fred L. Smith, Jr. [23]
Gregory Conko [24]
Myron Ebell [25]
Ivan Osorio [27]
Adjunct Scholar
Ronald Bailey [28] (to cover event for HACER)
RELEVANT ARTICLES
Biotechnology
Precaution Into Law [29] by James Pinkerton, Fred Smith mentioned
Biotech Factsheet [30] by CEI’s Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko En español. [31]
The Benefits of Biotech [32]; by CEI’s Director of Food Safety Policy Gregory Conko. En español. [33]
Brussels' Bad Science Will Cost the World Dear [34] Conko Op-Ed with Dr. Henry I. Miller
Precaution without Principle [35] Conko Op-Ed with Dr. Miller
Biopirates of the Caribbean [36] by Roger Bate
Free Trade
The Increasingly International Game of Antitrust [37] by CEI Technology Counsel Braden Cox
Trade and Environment
Backgrounder on Basel Convention [38] by CEI Adjunct Scholar James Shaheen
Testimony of Myron Ebell on Basel [39]
The Environmental Source 2002 [40]: International Policy edited by Angela Logomasini and David Riggs
The Perils Of "Soft" And Unratified Treaty Commitments [41] by Chris Horner
Water Wars [42] by Roger Bate
Health
It's Over...For Now [43] by Roger Bate
Undone Deal? [44] by Roger Bate
Agriculture
Fair Trade? For Whom? [45] by Richard Tren
Beware the World Aid Organisation [46] by Richard Tren
OTHER FREE MARKET GROUPS IN ATTENDANCE
Asociación de Consumidores Libres [48]
Bureaucrash [49]
Business Roundtable [50]
Cato Institute [51]
Coalition for Truth in Environmental Marketing (CTEMI)
Consumer Alert [52]
Consumers for World Trade [53]
Fraser Institute [54]
Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa [55]
Hispanic American Center for Economic Research [56]
International Chamber of Commerce [57]
International Consumers for Civil Society [58]
International Policy Network [59] (IPN)
Liberty Institute [60] (India)
National Association of Manufactures [61]
National Foreign Trade Council [62]
Links:
[1] http://cei.org/contributor/cei-staff
[2] http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/federal/cei/tech_consumer_alert.wvx
[3] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3523567&thesection=news&thesubsection=general
[4] http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=3&u=/ap/20030914/ap_on_bi_ge/wto_trade_talks_5
[5] http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1220019.html
[6] http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030912-120121-9664r.htm
[7] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2003/world_trade_wars/default.stm
[8] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62869-2003Sep11.html
[9] http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200309/FOR20030911c.shtml
[10] http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10659023.htm
[11] http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1059479649929
[12] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57444-2003Sep10.html
[13] http://cei.org/gencon/003,03654.cfm
[14] http://cei.org/gencon/003,03666.cfm
[15] http://cei.org/gencon/003,03664.cfm
[16] http://cei.org/gencon/003,03665.cfm
[17] http://cei.org/gencon/003,03663.cfm
[18] http://www.comprehensivetech.com/ceidoescancun/index.html
[19] http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/final_e.htm
[20] http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min03_e/min03_e.htm
[21] http://www.ustr.gov/
[22] http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/index_en.htm
[23] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=32&Submit2.x=9&Submit2.y=6
[24] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=3&Submit2.x=11&Submit2.y=15
[25] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=125&Submit2.x=16&Submit2.y=12
[26] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=148&Submit2.x=13&Submit2.y=4
[27] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=216&Submit2.x=5&Submit2.y=8
[28] http://cei.org/dyn/view_expert.cfm?expert=65&Submit2.x=9&Submit2.y=1
[29] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091303B.html
[30] http://cei.org/gencon/027,03658.cfm
[31] http://cei.org/gencon/027,03659.cfm
[32] http://cei.org/pdf/3656.pdf
[33] http://cei.org/pdf/3657.pdf
[34] http://cei.org/gencon/019,03609.cfm
[35] http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20030909-085538-2448r.htm
[36] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091203D.html
[37] http://cei.org/gencon/016,03536.cfm
[38] http://cei.org/pdf/3660.pdf
[39] http://cei.org/gencon/027,01770.cfm
[40] http://cei.org/pdf/2318.pdf
[41] http://cei.org/gencon/025,03297.cfm
[42] http://www.cancun.techcentralstation.com/090803E.html
[43] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091003G.html
[44] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091103E.html
[45] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091103C.html
[46] http://www.techcentralstation.com/091303C.html
[47] http://www.fightingmalaria.org/
[48] http://www.consumidoreslibres.org/
[49] http://www.bureaucrash.com/
[50] http://www.brtable.org/issue.cfm/9/0/0/921
[51] http://www.cato.org/index.html
[52] http://www.consumeralert.org/
[53] http://www.cwt.org/
[54] http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/
[55] http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/
[56] http://www.hacer.org/wto/
[57] http://www.iccwbo.org/
[58] http://www.internationalconsumers.org/
[59] http://www.policynetwork.net/
[60] http://www.libertyindia.org/
[61] http://www.nam.org/
[62] http://www.nftc.org/default.asp?Mode=DirectoryDisplay&id=1&Category=All