World government
Green tariffs make no sense
IPN Opinion article
Restricting trade as a climate measure would be counterproductive
National sovereignty vs. the New Green Order
IPN Opinion article
The international environment bureaucracy proposed by EU governments would be bad news for people and the planet
Free Africans for global trade
IPN Opinion article
The bad news is that the Doha "development" talks on free-trade limped back into view at the WTO in November with nothing new to be said, which sounds pretty boring, but the good news is that developing countries can ignore all that and make huge progress unilaterally and regionally.
The Future of World Trade
IPN Opinion article
IPN's Executive Director, Julian Morris, writes about the future of world trade,
"It is time to rethink how multilateral liberalization proceeds. Since the WTO does a good job of administering the agreements within its ambit, it might be best to limit its role to such administrative tasks. The failure of its recent Ministerial meetings means that multilateral liberalization is, in any case, slipping out of its grasp. Instead we are witnessing an explosion of bilateral and regional agreements, as countries seek other ways of pressing forward with trade liberalization."
Biosafety Protocol Will Harm Poor Farmers and Undermines WTO
IPN Opinion article
The Global Freedom to Trade Campaign, a coalition of pro-globalization NGOs at the Cancun WTO Ministerial, believes that the Biosafety Protocol, which comes into effect today, will harm poor farmers.
