Highlights
A collection of news and information related to North American Free Trade Agreement published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 50
» View wsbt.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
•
Next >
-
Upcoming business events in the Lehigh Valley
SATURDAYMAY 4 COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY is offering the "First Time Homebuyer's Class" in English today, May 11 and 18, 8:15 a.m, to 1 p.m., at Victory Firehouse, 205 Webster St., Bethlehem. Free. Info: Amy, 484-893-1038. LEHIGH...Tags: Seidersville, DeSales University, Marketing, Center Valley, Trade Dispute
-
INTERVIEW-Brazil WTO hopeful brushes off protectionist complaints
Reuters* Roberto Azevedo says he will be neutral if he gets the job * Other finalist is Blanco, former Mexican trade minister * New chief to be picked in May as WTO faces credibility crisis By Alonso Soto BRASILIA, May 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's candidate to...Tags: International Organizations, Politics, World Trade Organization, Japan, Trade Dispute
-
Brazil WTO hopeful brushes off protectionist complaints
ReutersBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's candidate to head the World Trade Organization brushed off criticism from rich nations that his country is growing more protectionist, saying he will be a neutral negotiator of global trade frictions if he gets the job this...Tags: International Organizations, Politics, Japan, World Trade Organization, Trade Dispute
-
Memo to Emery: Draft starters. Plural.
My issue isn’t that Bears General Manager Phil Emery has fewer draft picks than he has positional needs. Every GM has fewer picks than he has needs. Just ask them. But for those of you keeping score at home, Tribune football guru Dan Pompei did...
Tags: Football, Brandon Hardin , Crime, Law and Justice, Evan Rodriguez, Shea McClellin
-
Get rid of tariffs on trans-Atlantic trade
Within a few months, the U.S. and European Union will formally launch free-trade talks. Now is the time to think big. After years of neglect, this trade relationship is ripe for improvement. Europe is suffering through a prolonged economic downturn...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Prescription Drugs, Trade Dispute, European Union
-
WTO must adapt to new pacts to thaw talks-Mexico hopeful
ReutersMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization can break a deadlock in global trade talks if it adapts to a flurry of bilateral trade initiatives and overhauls itself, Mexico's finalist to head the body said on Friday. Herminio Blanco, a former...Tags: International Organizations, Politics, World Trade Organization, Trade Dispute, Brazil
-
How Republicans raided the welfare state and left it flat broke
I would like to add some points to former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich's column "How the welfare state has grown" (April 7). Mr. Ehrlich fails to mention the fact that every president since Lyndon Johnson, beginning in 1964, has raided the Social Security...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, U.S. Congress, Trade Dispute, Lyndon B. Johnson
-
Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails
An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Conservation, Trade Dispute, Hunting, Endangered Species
-
Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers
For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...
Tags: Venezuela, Poverty, Trade Dispute, Economic Organization, Joseph P. Kennedy
-
State of the union
In the State of the Union address, President Obama implied that his pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement will create jobs. I don't buy it. The legacy of past pacts on which the TPP is modeled has been job destruction, not job...Tags: Politics, Public Finance, Trade Dispute, Labor Legislation, Trade Policy
-
Nebraska governor's tax plans face more resistance
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Tim Kelliher paid more than $19,000 in state income taxes in 2011, an amount that could vanish in future years, depending on what happens to Gov. Dave Heineman's two tax proposals. But on Feb. 7, the Kearney farm producer made his...Tags: Fertilizer, Dave Heineman, Politics, Personal Income, Trade Dispute
-
Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records
L.A. NOWFederal officials spent Tuesday scouring a San Diego-area bus company's office, interviewing the owner and taking maintenance records as part of their investigation into the tour bus crash on California 38 that killed seven and injured dozens more....
May 3, 2013
|Story| Allentown Morning Call
May 1, 2013
|Story| Reuters
May 1, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 25, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 29, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 21, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Feb 15, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Feb 6, 2013
| Los Angeles Times