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China and WTO negotiators resume talks on China's entry
1. Mid shot Chinese delegation leaving car
2. Wideshot delegates walking into the building
3. Midshot exterior
4. WTO Director-General Mike Moore arriving
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Moore, WTO Director-General
"Well China will be a...
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CHINA: US TREASURY SECRETARY SUMMERS VISIT (V)
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U-S Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji discussed China's campaign to enter the World Trade Organisation in talks on Sunday that Summers said were «very useful.»
Zhu told Summers that China...
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Bush meets European Union president
1. Wide of US President George W Bush and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Oval Office
2. Cutaway of assembled media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President:
"Of course, the most...
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Tradition of protests absent at this year's APEC summit
Hanoi, Vietnam, November 17 2006
1. Various exterior of convention centre
2. Traffic
3. Various of armed police outside centre
4. Various of police officers re-directing moped riders in street
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tran Tien Duc,...
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USA: WTO CHINA AGREEMENT PRESS CONFERENCE
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Six former U-S secretaries of state have joined President Bill Clinton in his stepped-up campaign to gain early Congressional approval of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for China.
In a letter to Clinton, Henry...
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Bush swears in new US Trade Sec., comments on China
1. Wide shot of swearing-in for U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman
2. Mid shot of same, pull out to Portman shaking hands with US President George W. Bush
3. Attendees applauding
4. Bush at podium next to Portman
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Speeches by Howard and Lagos at APEC gathering
1. Wide shot of Chilean President Ricardo Lagos taking podium
2. Lagos at podium
3. Audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Ricardo Lagos, Chilean President:
(Includes wide shot of Lagos addressing delegates)
"And then the question is: if...
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WRAP Bush arrives, comments from Jiang, Powell, "family" photo
Pool
1. Various of US presidential plane arriving at Cabo San Lucas
2. President George W. Bush and wife Laura waving hello from top of plane steps
3. Mexican President and APEC host Vincente Fox and Bush walking along, shake hands,...
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WTO takes up global trade rules for medicine
1. World Trade Organisation sign and group of protesters in front of building
2. Various of demonstrators carrying coffin covered by black flag
3. Police in body armour
4. Director of WTO, Mike Moore, leaving building
5. Various of...
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Paulson outlines upcoming high-level talks, on currency
1. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson walking to podium
2. Cutaway photographers
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary:
"It is clear that our strategy for robust engagement with China, intensive dialogue but with resort...
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WRAP Bush meets European Union president ADDS presser
1. Wide of US President George W. Bush and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in the Oval Office
2. Cutaway of assembled media
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President:
"Of course, the most...
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WTO "disturbed" by increase in trade restrictive activity
A World Trade Organisation spokesperson says there is no indication that the United States intends to pull out of the trade body, while citing concerns about new tariffs like those behind a possible US-China trade war.
WTO...
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CLEAN : Hundreds of farmers protest against World Trade Organisation food speculation
In Geneva, nearly 500 people demonstrate in Geneva in favour of food sovereignty and against free trade on the eve of the 12th World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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WRAP Summit continues with French activist farmer Jose Bove
1. Wide shot of WTO plenary session
2. Various of session
3. Wide shot press conference of EU farmers
4. Wide of Jose Bove
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Bove, French farmer and anti-globalisation activist
"We say very clearly that Europe...
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US, EU, Brazil, India meet on deadlocked global trade talks
1. Exterior of the Brazilian Embassy
2. Various of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson, Indian Industry and Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and US Trade Representative, Robert Portman standing for...
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USA: TRADE SECRETARY BARSHEFSKY ON CHINA/PNTR
English/Nat
A senior U-S official on Tuesday urged Congress to grant China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status so as to clear the way for Beijing's accession to the World Trade Organization (W-T-O).
U-S Trade Representative...
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Delegates try to reach free trade agreement; Indian and US officials comment
Top trade officials meeting at a World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Bali, Indonesia, were working on Wednesday to reach an eleventh hour deal that could boost the global economy by 1 (t) trillion US dollars.
After more than a...
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WRAP Forum on Middle East, Iraq, Kerry slams US foreign policy, Blair, Lamy, McCain
AP Television
1. Exterior of World Economic Forum (WEF) Congress Centre
2. Interior lobby
3. Wide of forum on Iraq and the future of the Middle East, panel, video screen
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Vice...
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SWITZERLAND: WTO: EU/USA BANANAS/SANCTIONS - UPDATE
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The United States and the European Union have made their cases before the World Trade Organisation over hefty U-S sanctions imposed amid the bitter transatlantic banana trade row.
The E-U denounces the U-S sanctions, but...
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US treasury secretary John Snow at trade talks
October 10
1. Various of John Snow, US Treasury Secretary exiting car and meeting with Sadakazu Tanigaki, Japanese Finance Minister
October 11
2. Snow enters news conference
3. Cutaway media
4. SOUNDBITE (English) John Snow, US Treasury...
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China given formal membership of WTO at Qatar meeting.
1. Exteriors Qatar and Sheraton Doha Hotel
2. Interior views of delegates seated
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Youssef Kamal, Qatari Minister of Finance: "The ministerial conference so agrees (to accept China)."
4. Various of the...
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THAILAND: DEPUTY PM PANITCHPAKDI WTO CANDIDATE LATEST
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Despite a deepening deadlock, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi says he will not quit the race to lead the World Trade Organization and allow his New Zealand rival to assume the post.
Supachai Panitchpakdi...
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CHINA: BEIJING: WTO HEAD MIKE MOORE VISIT
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The head of the World Trade Organisation has voiced optimism that Chinese and European Union trade negotiators will strike a deal next week, which would pave the way for the world's largest country to join the free trade...
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Vietnamese president vows to further open communist country's economy
1. Asia Society of New York building
2. Various of protesters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ly Dong, protester:
"We come here against the communist leader (inaudible)."
4. Various protesters
5. Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet walking...