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Third Ministerial Conference

Remarks, Fact Sheets
12/03/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Closing of the Plenary Session)
12/02/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle, WA (ILO Convention #182 Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor)
12/02/99: White House Fact Sheet (President Clinton Ratifies New ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
12/02/99: Ratification of ILO Convention on Worst Forms of Child Labor, Seattle, WA
12/01/99: White House Fact Sheet (U.S. Agenda for a New Trade Round to Broaden Participation in Benefits of Expanded Trade
12/01/99: White House Fact Sheet (Support for Enhanced Market Access for Least-Developed Countries and Revitalized Capacity Building Program)
12/01/99: White House Fact Sheet (New Cooperative Effort to Help Poor Countries Gain Access to Affordable Medicines, Including HIV/AIDS Treatment)
12/01/99: White House Fact Sheet (Expanded Opportunities for American Farmers Through Agriculture Trade)
12/01/99: White House Fact Sheet (Expanding Opportunities for American Agriculture)
12/01/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Four Season Hotel, Seattle, WA (Ministers Attending the Meetings of the World Trade Organization)
12/01/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Weyerhauser Facility Transit Shed--Terminal 5, Seattle, WA (Farmers and Agriculture Trade)
12/01/99: Rodney E. Slater, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Remarks, Global Centers Forum Panel, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Local Governments' Trade Infrastructure Investments)
12/01/99: Dan Glickman, U.S.Secretary of Agriculture, Remarks, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (WTO Seattle Host Organization Agriculture Day)
11/30/99: Madeleine K. Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, Welcoming Remarks, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA
11/30/99: William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Remarks, Institute for International Economics, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Benefits of Trading Systems)
11/30/99: Dan Glickman, U.S.Secretary of Agriculture, Statement, Statement of the United States of America, World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference Plenary Session, Seattle, WA
11/29/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, WTO Ministerial NGO Forum, Seattle, WA (Labor, Environment, and Trade)
11/29/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, Confederation of Free Trade Unions, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Trading Systems and Free Trade Unions)
11/29/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, Africa Symposium, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (African Trade Policies)
11/29/99: William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Ending Global Fishing)
11/29/99: Dan Glickman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Remarks, WTO Ministerial Conference (Family Farmers' Summit on Agricultural Trade)
11/29/99 Stuart Eizenstat, U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary, Remarks, U.S. Alliance for Trade Expansion, WTO Ministerial Conference, Seattle, WA (Benefits of Trad)
11/24/99: White House Fact Sheet (The Clinton Administration Agenga for the Seattle WTO)
11/23/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, National Press Club (The Road to Seattle)
11/22/99:Alan Larson, Acting Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Statement, Foreign Press Center, Washington, DC (U.S. Perspective on the WTO Ministerial Meeting)
11/22/99: William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Remarks, Woodwood W. Center, Washington, DC (Trade and the Environment: Finding Common Ground)
11/17/99: Susan Esserman, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, Cato Institute, Washington, DC (Toward the New Round)
11/16/99: President Clinton, White House Declaration (Environmental Trade Policy)
11/16/99: President Clinton, Executive Order (Enviromental Review of Trade)
11/16/99: White House Fact Sheet (Expanding Trade and Ensuring a Healthy Environment)
11/16/99: White House Fact Sheet, (Summary of U.S.-China Bilateral WTO Agreement)
11/15/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Ankara, Turkey (China Enters WTO)
11/10/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Harley-DAvidson Employees, York, PA (Open Markets: Labor and Trade)
11/08/99: President Clinton, Excerpt, On-line Town Hall Meeting, George Washington University, Washington, DC (Environmental Issues)
11/05/99: President Clinton, Excerpt, Radio Conference Call, Chicago, IL (Agriculture Issues)
11/04/99: Joseph S. Papovich, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Testimony, House Commerce Committee (Services in the New Round of WTO Talks)
11/02/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Testimony before the Senate Banking Committee (Services in the New Round of International Trade Negotiations)
11/01/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks at Foreign Press Center, Washington, DC (Toward a New Round: WTO Principles and Goals)
11/01/99: Richard Fisher, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, World Services Congress, Atlanta, GA (The Benefits of Services Trade )
10/29/99: William Daley, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Remarks, Transatlantic Business Dialogue, Berlin, Germany (WTO Ministerial Conference and Global Trade )
10/26/99: Alan Larson, Remarks, World Affairs Council, Charlotte, NC (Working Together for Shared Prosperity)
10/26/99: David L. Aaron, Under Secretary for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce, Remarks, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC (The New Round)
10/26/99 : Richard Fisher, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Remarks, Brazil-U.S. Business Council, Washington, DC (Brazil and the U.S.: in Hemispheric Integration and the Trading System)
10/21/99: Alan Larson, Acting Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, 1999 Executive Leadership Conference of the Industry Advisory Council, Remarks to Labor, Business, and Agricultural NGOs, Washington, DC (U.S. Goals for the Seattle WTO Ministerial and a New Round)
10/21/99: David L. Aaron, Under Secretary for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce, Testimony, Subcommittee on International Trade, Senate Finance Committee (Services Negotiations)
10/20/90: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Testimony, House Committee on Agriculture (American Agriculture in the New Round)
10/19/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Council of Foreign Relations, New York (Toward Seattle: the Next Round)
09/17/99: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Inaugural Session of the Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy, Washington, DC
10/13/99: President Clinton, Remarks, Democratic Leadership Council Gala, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC (Agenda for Seattle WTO Third Ministerial Conference)

Press Releases
12/03/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative and Mike Moore, WTO Director General, Joint Press Conference (Conclusion of World Trade Organization Ministerial)
12/02/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative, Dan Glickman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, George Frampton Acting Chair, Council on Environmental Quality, and Gene Sperling, National Economic Advisor, Press Briefing
12/02/99: Alexis Herman, U.S. Secretary of Labor and Gene Sperling, National Economic Advisor, Press Briefing (Signining ILO Convention)
12/01/99: Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative and Gene Sperling, National Economic Advisor, Press Briefing
12/01/99: Rodney E. Slater, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Press Release (Africa as Market for U.S. Goods, Source for U.S. Jobs)
12/01/99: Rodney E. Slater, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Press Release (WTO Panel on Local Governments & Trade Infrastructure Investments)
11/26/99: Philip T. Reeker, Acting Spokesman, Department of State (Secretary Albright to Visit Cedar Rapids and Attend World Trade Meeting in Seattle)
11/24/99: Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture (Upcoming World Trade Organization Meeting in Seattle)
11/24/99: Gene Sperling, National Economic Advisor and Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative (WTO Economic Agenda)
11/16/99: President Clinton, the White House, (Environmental Reviews of Trade Proposals and Principles of Negotiations)
11/16/99: Vice President Gore, the White House (Trade and Environment)
11/15/99: USTR, U.S. and China Sign Historic Trade Agreement
11/10/99: Secretary of State Albright, Statement on National Dialogue on Jobs and Trade, Washington, DC
11/08/99: William M. Daley, Secretary of Commerce, Washington, DC (National Dialogue on Trade Day)
11/04/99: USTR, Results of the Fifth FTAA Trade Ministerial
11/02/99: USTR, Accelerated Tariff Liberalization Initiative (ATL) in the Forest Products Sector (Includes Fact Sheet and Executive Summary and Key Findings of a Study of the Economic and Environmental Effects)
10/31/99: Stuart Eizenstat, Department of Treasury, Jordan, Amman
10/29/99: Department of Treatury, Clinton-Gore Administration Commends House Passage of E-Commerce Resolution
10/28/99: USTR, United States Appeals to WTO Panel Decision in Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) Dispute
10/27/99: White House, Joint Declaration by President Clinton and EC President Prodi
10/15/99: USTR, WTO Appellate Body Finds That Certain Dairy Programs Constitute Export Subsidies
10/06/99: Department of State, Georgia's Prospective WTO Accession
09/24/99: USTR, State and Local Support of the 1999 WTO Ministerial

Reports
11/16/99: America's Interest in the World Trade Organization: an Economic Assessment
10/26/99: Final Report of the Global Forum on Fighting Corruption
07/99: Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
1998-1999: U.S. Government Initiative Relating to Global Electronic Commerce
1998: WTO Agreements on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary

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