Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Susan Schwab, the top US trade official, yesterday threw cold water on hopes of an outline deal in global trade talks, saying the US was "concerned" with the direction...
IPBiz (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Patent Docs, discussing a letter from four Congressman to U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, gets in TRIPS/Doha: The letter, to be kind, is naïve with regard to the state of intellectual property protection remaining in the TRIPS agreement after the Doha declaration. Speaking of naïvetee with respect to intellectual property, californiastemcellreport notes a video teleconference...
Patent Docs (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
By Kevin E. Noonan -- Four Congressman recently stepped into the crisis in world drug pricing, sending a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab last Thursday. The letter, signed by Congressman Charles Rangel (NY-15th Dist.), Congressman Rahm Emanuel (IL-5th Dist.), Congressman Sander Levin (MI-12th Dist.), and Congressman Chris Van Hollen (MD-8th Dist.), criticizes Ms. Schwab...
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
A proposal to approve Viet Nam’s eligibility for the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was recently submitted by the U.S.–Asean Business Council to Ms. Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative. GSP will not only allow Viet Nam to speed up its efforts to eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty, but will also improve the trade between the two countries, members of the Council...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
A spokesman for Susan Schwab, the US trade representative, said: “While there has been progress in recent days, in the weeks leading up to the ministerial meeting there still is a lot of work and still important differences in agriculture, NAMA [industrial goods] and services.”
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
... meeting between Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab is slated to take place on June 23.The outcomes of the meetings will be reported to senior Vietnamese and US leaders during Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung’s visit to the US from June 23-26.The Vietnam-US TIFA was signed on June 21, 2007, during State President Nguyen Minh...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... be shipped to Korea, as a transitional measure, to improve Korean consumer confidence in US beef,” Susan Schwab, US trade representative, said.The two sides agreed in April to allow all cuts of beef, from any age of cattle, to be shipped to Korea, marking the first full resumption of imports since the 2003 outbreak of mad cow disease in the US.But a public outcry in Korea over possible...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
SEOUL, June 22 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's ruling party and the government said Sunday that they will postpone implementing new U.S. beef import rules for the time being as the public remains concerned over U.S. beef products, Yonhap news agency reported. After negotiations in Washington last week, South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon and U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab agreed...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... a precedent for other countries to back out of trade agreements.Instead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement - agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart - was a "commercial understanding" between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... for other countries to back out of trade agreements.
Instead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement - agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart - was a "commercial understanding" between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk for...
MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... to back out of trade agreements.Younger cattle to be shippedInstead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement — agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart — was a "commercial understanding" between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk for...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... precedent for other countries to back out of trade agreements. Instead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement – agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart – was a “commercial understanding” between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
... a precedent for other countries to back out of trade agreements.Instead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement — agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart — was a "commercial understanding" between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
... for other countries to back out of trade agreements.
Instead, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the new arrangement - agreed to after talks last week with her South Korean counterpart - was a "commercial understanding" between U.S. exporters and South Korean importers that only meat from cattle younger than 30 months would be shipped, believed to be less at risk for...
Time (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
... said after returning from Washington, where he reached the deal with his U.S. counterpart, Susan Schwab.South Korea will "not import U.S. beef from cattle older than 30 months until consumers' confidence improves," Agriculture Minister Chung Woon-chun said at a joint news conference.Younger cattle are considered less at risk of mad cow disease.Kim also said South Korea will have the...
