Update for  September 1st to September 15th, 2003.

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Obama Should Complete Doha Round, CEOs Say

Report comes as Europeans gear-up to craft free trade pacts with India, South Korea and others

NEW YORK � 11/20/08 � A number of senior level corporate executives are urging the incoming Obama Administration to complete the long-stalled Doha Round of international trade talks in a new report published by the Wall Street Journal; responding to the report, New York Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer said that the Obama Administration and ''Democrats in general think we should trade in the global world,'' but concerns about ''income inequality'' should make business and government ''work together to cushion the blow.''


LA, LB Ports Delay Collection of Clean Truck Fees


LONG BEACH � 11/15/08 � The controversial Clean Truck Program at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has run into a snag as the collection of the fees generated by the program has been delayed until discussions between the Federal Maritime Commission and West Coast marine terminal operators over ''procedural issues'' are completed; in October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a �friend of the court� brief in support of a challenge by the American Trucking Association (ATA) to the Concession Plan provision of the program.


No Trade, Free Trade, Fair Trade: The World Opines


LOS ANGELES � 11/05/08 � While US trade policy hovered as a decidedly back-burner issue during the recently concluded presidential campaign, the importance of the country�s trade relations with the world and the possibility of an Obama Administration following through on its protectionist campaign rhetoric is taking center stage with newspapers and other news media outlets from Manila to Berlin; the following excerpts from media sources around the world cover the gamut from cautious optimism to predictions of retaliation against US exports by US trade partners.


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Briefs

 

Opinion

 

Profiles


Up, Up and Away: Moller International


DAVIS – Untold visionaries from Jules Verne to George Lucas have been fascinated with the idea of personal-use aircraft that would be as simple and safe to use as a bicycle; an expatriate entrepreneur engineer from Canada has made that vision a reality with the development of the SkyCar, a vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) aircraft for those who want to make waiting in freeway traffic jams a thing of the past.



 

Michael D. White
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The CalTrade Report
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