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Page last updated at 12:19 GMT, Wednesday, 22 October 2008 13:19 UK
Baroness Ashton before the European Trade Committee
Grilling for EU's would-be trade tsar
The UK's Baroness Ashton looks set to be the next EU trade commissioner, replacing Lord Mandelson.
EU committee endorses Ashton
When the politics gets personal
EU trade chief lambasts Sarkozy

LATEST NEWS
Firms back Mandelson's return
Kashmir rivals reopen trade route
EU renews India WTO drinks case
US in '$4bn cotton row sanction'
World trade talks end in collapse
Dismay at collapse of trade talks
China loses car parts dispute
Koreans fight free trade deal
I'm not to be bullied - Mandelson

Hershey factory Sweet talk
Chocolate and free trade may not mix for Barack Obama
Tobacco planting in Macedonia Q&A: Trade talks
The whys and wherefores of trade negotiations explained
Copper production Commodity boom
But speculators prevent poor nations from benefitting fully

KEY TRADE ISSUES

China flag Re-engage with Asia, US is urged
The US needs to pay more attention to trade relations with China and Asia, the Asia Foundation says.

EU raps Australia wheat monopoly
Fresh US trade warning to China
Russia wields the energy weapon
WTO upholds US export tax ruling
ANALYSIS

Kenyan banana seller. File pic. Trade talks' failure ends Doha dreams
Failure to reach agreement in Geneva ends a process begun in Doha seven years ago, says the BBC's David Loyn.

What makes negotiators tick?
Winners and losers in Hong Kong
Migrants see another Hong Kong
What helps the poor most?

REAL LIVES NORTH AND SOUTH

Dairy farmers
How subsidies affect livelihoods in France and Mali

Textile workers
How open markets worry British and Indian factory workers
Steelworkers
How trade wars have angered workers in Brazil and the USA

Protestors in Indonesia over global trade inequalities End of a dream
Failure in Geneva ended seven years of Doha trade talks
The European Union Trading rivals
Who is in the world's trade blocs - and what do they want?
Trade and the poor
Will globalisation save or destroy the world?


REGIONAL TRADE PACTS

Protests in Ecuador Ecuador protests 'will continue'

No trade deal at Americas summit
Venezuela to fully join Mercosur
Bush signs Central America pact
Cambodia and Vietnam talk trade
KEY ISSUES: FARMING

Nicholas Crawford [WFP/Rein Skullerud] and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Head-to-head: Africa's food crisis

EU agrees cut in sugar subsidies
Q&A: EU sugar subsidies
EU cuts Latam banana duty
Q&A: EU farm policy

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