Word: zoellick
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...world of trade negotiations, Cancún is already legendary. In September, as Caribbean waves lapped the beach outside their hotel, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim handed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a new set of demands from a coalition of 22 developing countries, led by Brazil, China and India. If the U.S., the E.U. and other developed nations failed to slash their hundreds of billions in agriculture tariffs and subsidies, the poorer nations would refuse to discuss issues dear to the rich, like investment rules and intellectual-property rights. Zoellick stood up, Amorim recalls, and said that while...
...might seem overly dramatic to say that life and death hang in the balance in an upcoming summit on intellectual property rights, but in fact, it’s true. Today, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick will be attending a summit on the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, and many activist groups, including Oxfam, Student Global Aids Campaign and the Harvard Aids Coalition, are concerned he will push for patent protections. This move would prevent the manufacture of the generic medications that millions of people in the developing world, where patented medicines...
...Zoellick is wrong to call for more stringent patent protections, but simply loosening or removing patent restrictions is at best a short-term solution. Solving the health crisis in developing countries in the long run will require a radical shift in the role of government in medical research...
...workers' plans to pay the plant's €20 million debt by selling their semen "I can't respond to the deputy of the deputy of the American deputy secretary." Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's President-elect, on criticism by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick "It is glorious to be allowed to join the party. But the membership fee is very high." Xiang Shaoliang, CEO of Baopu Garment, on Chinese Communist Party plans to admit entrepreneurs
...trade war, but the brief era of post-Sept. 11 togetherness is now officially over. The Americans are serene about this. "The Europeans will scream," a Bush administration official told TIME last week. "But coming from them, it's a little hard to take." As U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, heretofore regarded as one of the Bush team's great internationalists, pointed out, the Europeans subsidized their steel industry to the tune of $50 billion over the past 30 years...