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Various protests outside WTO venue
1. Wide interior shrine to worlds farmers
2. Candles in shrine
3. Activists sitting in front of shrine
4. Candles with pictures of deceased farmers in background
5. Japanese woman putting flowers on shrine
6. Japanese woman and activist...
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CHINA: CHINA'S ENTRY INTO THE WTO LATEST
Mandarin/Nat
China's entry into the World Trade Organisation depends on the voting of the group's 135 members.
The Foreign Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng implied that Beijing won't delay accession plans even if the U-S fails to approve...
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WRAP Leaders' joint declaration of APEC summit, ADDS leaders' photo-op
1. Various of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders on podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (Vietnamese) Nguyen Minh Triet, Vietnamese President:
"Support for the Doha development agenda remains a top priority of APEC. The consequences of...
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Leaders' joint declaration of APEC summit
1. Various of APEC leaders on podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (Vietnamese) Nguyen Minh Triet, Vietnamese President:
"Support for the Doha development agenda remains a top priority of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation). The consequences of...
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Bush and Roh joint news conference, protests
1. Various of protesters with anti-Bush and anti-war signs outside Hyundai hotel
2. US President George W Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun shake hands, zoom into handshake, zoom out to wide as they sit
3. US Secretary of...
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A deal to boost global trade is approved for the first time in nearly two decades
A deal to boost global trade has been approved by the World Trade Organisation's 159 member economies for the first time in nearly two decades, keeping alive the possibility that a broader agreement to create a level playing field for...
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Japan to slap tariffs on US steel imports
1. Hideji Sugiyama, Japanese Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry walking in for news conference
2. Media at news conference
3. Sugiyama speaking
4. Photographer
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hideji Sugiyama, Japanese Vice Minister of...
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Switzerland - EU's Ruggiero Named WTO Chief
The European Union's Renato Ruggiero of Italy on Thursday (23/3)
was named head of the new World Trade Organisation. The 64-year-old Italian insists that he will represent all countries in the WTO, and will work to ensure that the...
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CHINA: WILLIAM DALEY CALLS FOR CUTS TO TRADE SURPLUS
English/Nat
In a precursor to the Chinese president's visit to the United States, Commerce Secretary William Daley has been talking tough on trade issues in Beijing.
The U-S Commerce Secretary told China on Wednesday its rapidly growing...
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Economic issues surrounding APEC summit
Bangkok - 18 October 2003
1. Exterior convention centre
2. US Secretary of State Colin Powell talking with US trade representative Robert Zoellick in meeting
3. Wide shot ABAC conference on sideline of APEC
4. Audience
5. SOUNDBITE...
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G-20 trade group of natons meets in Brasilia
1. Various of delegates sitting around table at G-20 Summit inside Itamaraty Palace
2. Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim
3. Brazilian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Luiz Fernando Furlan
4. Various of summit...
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USA: 50-THOUSAND ACTIVISTS EXPECTED AT W-T-O MEETING (2)
English/Nat
As an estimated 50-thousand protesters gear up to lobby the World Trade Organisation summit in the American city of Seattle, U-S President Bill Clinton has said the demonstrators have a right to be heard.
He told reporters...
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Security, protesters gather, EU, Indian minister comments
1. Wide shot Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, venue of the WTO meeting
2. Police guarding Convention Centre
3. Police vans on standby
4. Barricade
5. Police checking badges of people entering venue
6. Group of police...
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(V) SWITZERLAND: WTO: BANANAS/SANCTIONS
English/Nat
The United States and the European Union have put their cases before the World Trade Organisation over hefty U-S sanctions imposed amid the bitter trans-Atlantic banana trade row.
The E-U denounces the U-S sanctions, but...
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Proposal on farm trade delayed, WTO comment
1. Exterior of the WTO headquarters in Geneva
2. Pull out from plate reading "World Trade Organisation" to security outside the WTO
3. Policemen guarding WTO's main entrance
4. Delegates leaving and entering WTO headquarters
5....
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EU Trade Commissioner and US Trade Representative on deal
1. Wide shot of EU trade chief Peter Mandelson press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Mandelson, European Union Commissioner for External Trade:
"It's been a good week - I think we've enjoyed it, and I think - here and there -...
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Joint commission on commerce and trade meeting in Beijing
1. Wide of negotiators walking into conference hall
2. Close pan from US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez to Chinese Vice Premier Madame Wu Yi, to US Trade Ambassador Susan Schwab
3. Wide of the two delegations facing each other...
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Demonstrations outside WTO talks
1. Pan shot of farmers and citizens at gathering at a Tokyo park
2. Medium shot of participants
3. Close up of farmers with English banner
4. Wide shot of South Korean dancers on stage
5. Close up of South Korean dancer
6. Medium shot of...
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APEC Women Leaders conference
1. Exterior of the Great Hall
2. Pan of delegates walking into meeting hall
3. Delegates sitting down
4. Delegates in the meeting hall
5. VIP delegates getting seated
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarmite D. Bulte, Parliamentary Secretary to...
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USA: CONGRESS DEBATE OVER TRADE WITH CHINA
English/Nat
The annual debate over trade with China has begun in the U-S Congress.
Critics of China say it is wrong to have normal trade relations with a country with widespread human rights abuses, although they acknowledge that once...
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EU resumes last ditch farm susbsidy reform talks
1. Panning shot, building
2. Pull out from protesters
3. Miguel Arias Canete, Spanish Agriculture Minister getting out of car
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Miguel Arias Canete, Spanish Agriculture Minister
"We will try to see compromise this...
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VOICED S Korean protester kills himself during clashes with police
0000 Lee Kyung-Hae collapses
0013 Lee being taken away
0017 Two anti-WTO (World Trade Organisation) demonstrators embrace in front of hospital where Lee died
0021 Lee protesting
0028 Wide shot of Lee protesting
0034 Protesters pushing...
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NEW Business summit begins in Cannes ahead of G20
1. Wide exterior Martinez Hotel, venue for B20 summit of business leaders
2. Interior business leaders on stage of conference hall
3. Businessmen and women in audience
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade...
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CHINA: BEIJING: US TREASURY SECRETARY ROBERT RUBIN VISIT
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
The U-S Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has said relations between Washington and Beijing are improving - but he ended two days of talks without progress on trade issues.
At a news conference in Beijing he repeated...