No New Round: Review and Repair the WTO Instead

This focus is on the forthcoming Seattle WTO Conference. We carry a whole range of articles which analyse the implications of the new issues being pushed onto the Conference agenda by the North. We also report on the growing mobilisation by civil society worldwide against a new Round of trade negotiations and the hijacking of the WTO agenda by transnationals. We also carry some of the important statements issued by some of the protest groups and coalitions on the forthcoming Seattle meeting.

• A checklist of issues and positions for Seattle (Martin Khor)

• The implications of the new issues in the WTO (Bhagirath Lal Das)

• No New Round, instead Turnaround!

• Why Asian groups are campaigning against a new Round (Pennie Azarcon La Cruz)

• Shutting down Seattle (Geov Parrish)

• More steamrollering of South at Seattle? (C.Raghavan/SUNS)

• European Community's 'fresh start' on investment rules in WTO (C.Raghavan/SUNS)

• How the WTO rules and system are inequitable against the South (Bhagirath Lal Das)

• Why the WTO decision-making system of 'consensus' works against the South (Bhagirath Lal Das)

• Transparency, participation and legitimacy of the WTO

• Experts caution against wrong issues in new Round (Martin Khor)

• WTO hijacked by big corporations, South countries the victims (Martin Khor)

• 'North should open its own markets in new Round' - UNCTAD (C.Raghavan/SUNS)