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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...
...accounts for more than two-thirds of South America's economy, he notes - so to call Brazil isolated "is the same as negotiating with Asia and saying India and China are isolated." This does not sound like a recipe for compromise, though in a meeting this month in Washington, Zoellick and Amorim tried to iron out differences. "What we're most likely to see in Miami is the ultimate failure of the U.S. and Brazil to agree," says Connolly. "At best we may see a cosmetic ftaa that has no teeth." That might not upset U.S. President George W. Bush...
...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