The US has consistently challenged through the World Trade Organisation the European Union's reluctance to import and sell genetically modified crops and food.
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The European Union wants the World Trade Organisation to look at competition policy.
Just think how hard it can be to get anything done in the European Union or the World Trade Organization.
To prevent a repeat of 1930s beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism, governments yielded significant powers over trade policy to supranational bodies such at the World Trade Organization (previously the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and the European Union.
There is the European Union, there is the World Trade Organisation and there is Nato - which of those will you join first, or in what order?
This is the president who attacks the European Central Bank at almost every opportunity for its rigid monetary policy, criticises the European Commission for its promotion of competition and is seeking to undermine the Doha world trade talks because they threaten to cut European Union farm subsidies.
The warning comes in a report prepared by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN-The World Conservation Union and WWF, the global environment campaign.
The latest salvo was fired on June 23rd by America and the European Union, which complained to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) about China's restrictions on the exports of nine minerals, including bauxite, coke, magnesium and manganese.
The national car has brought trouble in the World Trade Organisation, where the United States, the European Union and Japan have all lodged complaints.
But even a big country like Brazil knows that, in a trade world dominated by the United States, the European Union and Japan, it on its own would risk being disregarded.
Since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many pilots and their union have been calling for the arming of pilots as a last resort to prevent hijackers from taking over planes.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many pilots and their union have been calling for the arming of pilots as a last resort to prevent hijackers from taking over planes.
Now, changed European Union rules, and expected rulings from the World Trade Organisation, are likely to erode that protection from 2006.
Compounding the misery, the Kirchner trade restrictions triggered a round of complaints to the World Trade Organization by Mexico, the United States, the European Union, and Japan.
Thousands continue to climb into the backs of the trucks that carry the world's trade across borders, to the fury of the International Road Transport Union, whose members pay fines or even go to jail when their unwanted cargo is discovered.
"Between us, we account for a third of world trade, so if we really got together and liberalized trade between the European Union and the United States of America, we could make both our peoples a lot better off, " he said.
There is a clear upward trend in the goods-trade deficits with both other European Union countries and the rest of the world.
The European Union - the world's biggest exporter - will host a dinner of trade ministers later at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The best hope now is that the European Union, the world's biggest trading block, seizes the baton of free trade from America something Sir Leon Brittan, the external-trade commissioner, boasts it has done already, for instance in last year's financial-services and telecoms trade deals.
First, on the economy: We, the European Union and the United States, have the strongest trade and economic relationship in the world.
Mr Putin's decision to pull out of the World Trade Organisation entry negotiations, saying that Russia is prepared to go in only as part of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, illustrates that point.
But the primary focus of the conversation was on the world economy and President Obama's plan to pursue a U.S.-European Union free trade agreement, which he discussed in his State of the Union address earlier this week.
Russia, recall, is now a full-fledged member of the World Trade Organization, proof that it is broadly comfortable with the liberal international economic order, an order which the Soviet Union fought tooth and nail until it collapsed.
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