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No to unfair trade.


Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov.  

As delegates met for the World Trade Organization's sixth round of ministerial Done under the direction of a supervisor; not involving discretion or policymaking.

Ministerial describes an act or a function that conforms to an instruction or a prescribed procedure. It connotes obedience.
 talks from December 13 through 18, activists marched in Hong Kong, the host city, and elsewhere. Critics of the WTO See World Trade Organization.  say the trade policies are unfair to farmers and workers.

For more information, go to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy website, www.tradeobservatory.org.
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Title Annotation:World Trade Organization meeting
Publication:The Progressive
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9HONG
Date:Feb 1, 2006
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