The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade
The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) meeting in Beijing on December 19-20 was the main annual event for addressing bilateral trade issue...
Brazil
Azevedo Goes to Geneva
With the election of Brazil’s Roberto Azevedo as the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, it’s time to hope for a “Nixon goes to China” moment...
Brazil’s Agricultural Subsidies
Brazil is considered a developing country, but has become an economic power as a major exporter and agri-food now accounts for 28 percent of GDP. Brazil’s Amba...
Achieving Food Security
With high commodity prices and droughts impacting crops in the U.S. and Russia in 2012, food importing countries are giving more consideration to food security....
MERCOSUR Increases Tariffs on Industrial Products
The four member countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay of MERCOSUR (Common Market of the South) have agreed to increase import tariffs to 35 percent...
Brazil Approves Biotech Dry Beans
Brazil is the world’s second largest producer of biotech crops and the Brazilian National Technical Commission on Biosafety has just approved a biotech...
U.S.-Brazil WTO Case Discussion Framework
The U.S. and Brazilian governments announced a framework for discussions related to a WTO case won by Brazil on trade-distorting U.S. export credit and cotton p...
Changes in the USDA Export Credit Guarantee Program
When USTR Ron Kirk and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced in early April that the U.S. and Brazil had agreed to work toward a negotiated settlement over Brazi...
Brazil Cotton Case Requires U.S. Leadership
Eight years have gone by since Brazil filed its case at the WTO against the U.S. for not meeting its commitments on cotton programs and export subsidies, and si...
WTO allows Brazil to retaliate in US cotton dispute
AFP / Google News
By Hui-Min Neo, AFP
August 31, 2009
GENEVA — The World Trade Organisation on Monday authorised Brazil to impose massive retaliatory s...