Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event's theme echoed a more famous Boston protest with the slogan, "No globalization without representation." Protestors believe that the WTO, which was created to promote international free trade, should incorporate more viewpoints in its decision-making process...
More than 30 Harvard students joined hundreds of Bostonians who gathered downtown to protest the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its policies last night...
...Case for the WTO Advocates of the WTO and free trade - which include all of the serious contenders for both Democratic and Republican presidential nominations - emphasize that globalization and the expansion of trade have created unprecedented wealth in both rich and some previously poor countries. The world's economy has grown to six times its size since 1950, primarily on the basis of a tenfold increase in international trade. Free trade advocates believe global prosperity can be maintained and expanded only through an increasingly borderless economy, which requires standardized rules made by a universally accepted authority. That, they argue...
...Dumping Europe and Japan want a wide-ranging round of trade negotiations to include limits on the use of anti-dumping legislation to prevent cheap imports from undermining local industry. The U.S. favors a more limited agenda, excluding issues such as dumping, which are a major concern of U.S. labor...
They've been working at this trade "too long," says Georgs gruffly, with an air of exhaustion and sarcasm...