CKUT Radio: Philippines out of the WTO

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Listen to an interview with Antonio Tujan of IBON an independent research organization based in Manila. The interview explores the current social, economic and political effects of the WTO on the Philippines, while reflecting on the recent WTO negotiations in Geneva, which concluded on July 31st.

The WTO negotiations have been projected as a breakthrough by economic and political elites around the world, while social movements in the Philippines and throughout the Global South stress that the Geneva negotiations only illustrate the neo-colonial nature of the WTO.

The Geneva negotiations focused on key trade policy issues, which lead to the collapse of the September 2003 WTO Ministerial negotiations in Cancun Mexico, such as large Agricultural Subsidies maintained by northern countries and the TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).

-> For more information about anti-WTO movements in the Philippines visit: http://qc.indymedia.org/