Gatt's new avatar is a demon

An extraordinary session of the US Congress meets in December to approve the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade amidst fears that its new …

Security begins in the stomach

Snooping on the market

Glaxo reaps GATT's gifts

Carrot and stick

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Unconventional interference

The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the …

Environmental trade-off

The US signs a new trade agenda and seeks stricter control over its intellectual property rights in India

Patent parley

The Rao government has proved itself unconvincing in handling the Opposition on GATT-related patent reforms

Behind the buzzword

The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised …

The South needs sit-ups

Although the World Trade Organization is not the South's favourite negotiating platform, the latter must strengthen itself against the Northern moves

A dose of patent power

In this GATT era, Indian drugs and pharmaceutical scientists have belatedly begun to focus on drug, rather than on process, development

GATT goes sour

Socio-political riddle

Fishy business

The US policy to restrict tuna imports hampers free trade, says the GATT panel report

Some farmers laud Dunkel Draft

A section of India's farmers emphatically supported the Dunkel Draft, saying it contains just what they have been demanding for years.

Loggers, environmentalists at loggerheads

By lifting a ban raw wood export and levying a huge tax on it instead, officials in Jakarta have come under fire from both loggers and …

Brazil for home milk

Win some, lose some

The Uruguay round of GATT resulted in a severe backlash by small farmers all over the world, but made exporters and big farmers happy.

Row over ruling

A WTO ruling raps the US for its unfair trade practices and the failure to stick to environmental rules on clean fuel standard

The year of ecobabble

Despite numerous proclamations of eco-friendliness and a deluge of treaties, not much was done in 1993 to make fuelwood and clean water easily …

Homework on global summits

Representatives of the South must pull up their socks on garnering vital data on the ongoing policy debates

Yen for ecofriendly grain

Japan will import Indian rice only if it is free from harmful chemical residues

Patent prejudice

This verbally-loaded anti-GATT film is a shrill intellectual harvest that tends to over-romanticise the small organic farmer

Patent jugglery

Trading nature