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Article: Trade talks create tensions: Sleepless in Seattle becomes unofficial theme for event
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 18, 1999
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GENEVA - Trade negotiators are preparing to launch new efforts to
steer the global economy into the new millennium.
But as the countdown to the launch begins, they can't even agree
on a name for the talks, let alone what they should cover.
The 134-nation World Trade Organization has spent the past year
discussing the agenda for a ministerial meeting in Seattle beginning
Nov. 30. The meeting should kickstart negotiations aimed at rolling
back barriers to exports and thus - in theory - boosting
international prosperity.
But so far there have been few results. And when WTO diplomats
return from their leisurely summer break, the tough task of whittling
down more than 80 proposals into a feasible ...