Other Resources 

These online resources provide background and supplemental information that help in understanding the negotiations that took place during the Fifth WTO Ministerial in Cancún, Mexico.

Background for the Fifth WTO Ministerial

U.S. Department of State

• U.S.-EU Framework on Agriculture Seen as Way Out of WTO Impasse (analysis; 08/13/03)
  • Joint Paper Text (08/13/03)
• Trade Glossary, Chronology, and Acronyms (from The Language of Trade)

Office of the United States Trade Representative

• U.S. Membership in the WTO
• Agricultural Issues and the WTO
• The World Trade Organization Works for You

Executive Office of the President (The White House)

• International Trade Policy
• Benefits of Trade Fact Sheet

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Agricultural Trade and Trade Policy
• Agricultural Trade Data
• The World Trade Organization & The U.S. Proposal for Global Agricultural Trade Reform 

The World Trade Organization

• The WTO in Brief
• The Doha Round of Negotiations
• Cancún Ministerial
  • "Cancún Failure Is 'Not Good News' for Africa," keynote address by Dr. Kipkorir Aly Azad Rana, WTO Deputy Director-General, Second East African Business Summit (09/19/03)
  • "Cancún: The Real Losers Are the Poor," WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, International Herald Tribune (09/18/03)

Logistics

• Media Accreditation (closed August 15, 2003)
  
• Cancún Ministerial: Mexico's Official Organizing Committee
  • About Cancún
    • History
    • Climate
  • Telephone Calls Guide
    • International Calls From Mexico
    • International Calls to Mexico
  • Travel Tips
    • Today's Weather
    • Weather Forecast
    • Time Zone: -5 GMT

Non-Government Agricultural Organizations

AGTRADE.ORG (agricultural trade policy and issues; maintained by the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, with funding from Farm Foundation)