Global Classroom, Fall 2000, Syllabus "Computer Applications in International Relations Research" New TED Case Choices (see possible.htm for some more) A Web-Based Course With a Focus on Trade, Environment and Culture Issues (SIS 513).

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New Case Choices - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q RS T U V W X Y Z

ACKEE

Richard Chacon, "Trade Talks Bear Fruit, New Worries", Boston Globe, May 29, 2001. Ackee (a fruit) from Jamaica is growing in popularity because of recent US trade law changes. It was brought to Jamaica from Africa in the `8th century. Relation to FTAA?

AFLOTOXINS

Geoff Windestock, "Is EU's Environmental Push Protectionism?", Wall Street Journal, 8/8/01. EU regulations on aflotoxins on nuts, cereals and dried fruits would cost developing country exports but save 1 life in a billion.

ANIMAL

Human Use of Animal Parts (Even you can have a pig's liver.) "EU and US each deal on animal products," Michael Smith, Financial Times, 6/20/1999. Also pet food is covered.

ASIACLAM

Charles Clover, "Asia Clam Threatens Britain's River Life", Daily Telegraph, July 15, 2000. Invasive species case.

ASIACRAB

USITC Case on Foreign vs Domestic Crabs, Hard Sell Crabs, Judy Sarasohn, Washington Post, 7/22/2000. Also relates to Maryland crab labeling case.

ASIAEELS

Mark Robichaux, "Plague of Asian Eels Highlights Damage from Foreign Species: Latest of Many Interlopers, These Creatures Could Threaten the Everglades," Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2000.

AUSTRALIAFILMS

"Aussie quotas in trade talks: film industry protests swapping culture for lamb chops", The Hollywood Reporter, April 8, 2001. The US views their content requirements a barrier to trade and is involved in a lamb dumping case with New Zealand.

BLOOD

Blood Trade. Blood sometimes moves across borders and their are leading exporters and importers.

CANADA-COSTA-RICA

Andrew Bonds, "Canada and Costa Rica to seal trade pact," Financial Times, April 22, 2001. Includes labor and environmental standards.

CASHEW

Kunal Bose, "Bumper Cashew Crop to hit Prices", Financial Times, about Friday, April 5, 2002. Processor versus exporter nations.

CATFISH

Helen Cooper, "Catfish Case Muddies Waters for Bush Fast Track", Wall Street Journal, 7/13/01. Congress is proposing labeling catfish that is imported from Vietnam.

CHILI

Susan Montoya Bryan, "Fighting Fire with Water: Chile is King in NM, but Mexican imports ignite business rivalry", Dalaas Morning News, Sept. 24, 2000. After NAFTA, chili pepper imports from Mexico are swamping growers in New Mexico.

CHINA-OLYMPICS

China's bid for the Olympics and the human rights, economic, and environmental aspects.

CUCUMBER

Ken Hinjino. "Japan Opens Door to Curvy Cucumbers", Financial Times, June 29, 2001. Japan laws had prohibited these imports.

CRUISE

Eric Pianin, "Cruise Industry's Pollution Assailed," Washington Post, May 30, 2002, A2. Pollution by cruise ships.

DRACULA

Lucian Kim, "Can Dracula Land Put Transylvania in the Black?, National Geographic News, 11/7/2001. Dracula theme park to open in Romania. Who owns the name. Hollywood or Bram Stoker?

ENERGY-SALMON

Chris Kraul, "State's Energy Users pay price to save Salmon," Los Angeles Times, September 25, 2000. Tearing down dams to save salmon will raise energy costs. California imports 22% of its electricity. Environmentalists oppose the Northwest hydroelectric system of dams, reservioirs and powerhouses, as it impedes migratory salmon have succeeded. On the other hand, California relies on hydroelectricity for 22% of its power, which have recently come under severe shortage of power. LA Times, 09/25/00.

FASHION-MODEL

US commitment to the WTO/GATS on limits to market access. Up to 65,000 persons annually can fill positions for Fashion Models and Other Specialty Occupations. The latter (a separate case study) includes "persons engaged in a specialty occupation, requiring (a) theoretical and practical appreciation of a body of highly specialized knowledge; and (b) attainment of a bachelor's or higher equivalent) as a minimum entry into the occupation in the United States.

FETA2

Denmark has sued and Bulgaria will surely follow in appealing the EC ruling giving Greece th34e sole right to market cheese under the feta brand. "Denamrk Sues over feta ruling", Finanaical Times, 12-24-2002.

FILM-KOREA

Craig Linder, "US Asks WTO countries to lower AV trade Barriers," Hollywood Reporter, About July 3, 2002. US opposes Korean film quotas.

FILM-TAIWAN

Stephan Grauweis, "Ailing Taiwan Film Industry Lobbies President for Help," Hollywood Reporter, about June 26, 2002.

FIREWORKS

Fireworks trade and dumping from China to US, Craig S. Smith, "True Blue Fireworks Made in China," NY Times, 7/4/2000. China supplies most of fireworks on July 4th.

FLAG

Washington Times, Foreign Fireworks and flags feting 4th, July 5, 2001. Taiwanese manufacturers sell more than 2 million flags to the US. Edward Alden, "Broad Stripes and Bright Stars come out of Shanghai," Financial Times, July 4, 2002.

FOREIGNWORM

Adele Conover, "Foreign Worm Alert: Aliens are Tunnelling Through North America, Who'd have Thought These Earth Tillers have a Downside?", Smithsonian, Volume 31, Number 5, August, 2000, pp.. 29-30.

FUR

Human Use of Animal Fur. Brian Mogar, "Legislation would ban imports of cat, dog fur," Washington Post, 6/10/99.

GARLIC

Gralci dispute betweeen Japan and China and Chinese garleic allegedly dumped n the US. Rol of diseases and urbanization in US garlic rpoduction in California. "Illegal imports anger US growers, Houston Chronicle, about 1/20/2002.

GERMAN-LANGUAGE

Peter Finn, "Achtung! English Verboten!: Germans Wage War Over Words", Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2001. German proposals to limit use of English like in France.

GHANA-SPILL

Mike Anane, "Cyanide Spill Ghana's Worst Environment Disaster," Environment News Service, Lycos web site, 11/5/2001. Gold wine spill of cyanide into Ghana's rivers.

GMO-CHINA

"Modified Food for China, Washington Times, 12/19/2001. China temporarily banned imports of use soybeans which are gmo-enhanced from the US.

GRAPEFRUIT

Elisabeth Rosenthal, "Are a Billion Chinese Grapefruit Compliant?": US Citrus Growers are Early Winners in Two-way Agricultural Trade Accords", NT Times, 7/1/2000. One of the first open categories for import in China among fruits.

GREENHOUSE

Mark Heinzl, "Messy Canadian-US Tomato Fight Alleges Dumping by state of the art Greenhouses north of the border," The Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2001.

HAIR

Hair Trade. Big in Philippines and Thailand who are leading exporters to developed countries especially the US.

HONEY

Honey and bee trade and US disputes with China and Argentina. Barry Schlacter, "Beeline for honey trade", Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 29, 2001.

INDIA-CHICKEN

Cecelia W. Dugger, "Market Economics: Chicken Shows the Difficulty of Exporting Food to India", NY Times, 6/14/2000. American like chicken breasts but many Indians prefer drumsticks and wings. Perdue farms wanted to take advantage of this, but then encountered brand new tariffs. Many also prefer fresh-killed chickens.

INDIA-FILM

India film industry and foreign film quotas.

JAPAN-TIRE

Allegations that Japanese car tires distributed in the Middle EAst contained images offensive to Islam and these allegations were investigated.

JASMINE

www.atimes..com/se-asia/CK009Ae02.html, Asia Times. Jasmine rice protection in Thailand and elsewhere and Jasmati rice. 11/8/01

KOSHER

Israel Kosher products import laws

LABOR

Bangladesh Clothing Manufacturers agree to ILO child inspection. Cambodia's apparel firms have agreed to ILO inspections in exchange for higher US export quotas in a US brokered deal. "Do-it-yourself Labor Standards", Business Week 11/19/2001.

LEMON

Senator Boxer from California wants to limit imports of Lemons, oranges and grapefruit from Argentina because of related disease on Argentina. The disease however has not been found in the parts of Argentina where the citrus products are grown.. "A Lemon from Sen. Boxer", Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2000.

LENTEN-TURTLE

Robert Jablon, "Conservation groups call for a Vatican ban on ruttle meat," Environemtnal News Networkm 3-15-2002. Turtle meat is techncially a meat not a fish and is not appropriate for Lent fasting. Letter sent to Pope. Also, Pope permitted the eating of capybera in South America, although it is techncially a rat.

MANILA-COW

Hugh Williamson, "Manila's cut in cattle imports fuels Australia Trade Dispute", Financial Times, 6/12/2000. The Philippines is imposing cuts in Australian cattle imports in retaliation for Australia slowing liberalization of Philippine bananas and pineapples.

MERCOSUR-CHICKEN

Argentine duties on Brazilian chickens are a growing Mercosur case and a possible case for the WTO. The case has a lot of social and environmental implications."Chicken Dispute Disturbs Mercosur", Raymond Colitt, Financial Times, August 2, 2000.

METALCLAD

Evelyn Iritani, "Metalclad NAFTA Dispute is settled", Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2001. Mexico lost a case to a US firm under NAFTA dispute settlement. The firm claimed Mexico had expropriated a waste management technology plan from a US firm.

NEW-ZEALAND-APPLES

"India: New Zealand Upset Over Steep Duty on Apples," The Hindu, November 16, 2000. India has imposed high import tariffs to protect local producers and ensure food security.

NUCLEAR-WORMS

Ken Ringle, "Gone Fission: The Nuclear Worm", Washington Post, July 27, 2002, C1. Vietnamese worms and US imports.

OLYMPICS-DISPUTE

"News Outlets get Olympic OK", The Hooywood Reporter, August 21, 2000. THE EU threatened Australia with a complaint to the WTO over media access to the Sydney Olympics.

ORANGE-JUICE

Florida levies an extra surcharge on ragne juice imports from anywhere, even other US states. "The Geopolitics of Orange Juice", Economist, about September 20, 2002.

OZTV

Michaela Boland, "Oz vows biz protection from WTO plans," Dailey Variety, 11/16/2001. Australia plans to protect its domestic film and TV industries from WTO rules.

PADTHAI

The Nation, Thailand, 12/18/01. www.nationmedia.com. Should pad thai be patented. It was invented by a Thai dictator in the 1950s as a anti-Chinese move.

PARMESAN

Bruce Johnston, "Italians hail cheese fight victory," Vancouver Sun, About July 26, 2002. Precognition of name use not granted.

PEAR

Edward Alden, "US pear growers may bite into fruits of Africa trade act," Financial Times, June 26, 2002. Carter Dougherty, "US growers seek return of pear tariff", June 25, 2002, Washington Times,

PENCIL

"Sparring Partner: Trade Disputes which Japan may intensify if economy slows", Dallas Morning News, Nov. 23, 2000. Pencil imports from China are hurting US pencil makers. US pencils are made with wood from California or Indonesia. Americans were accused of doing this to Europeans in the early 20th century.

PENQUIN

Carol Kaeksuk Yoon, "Pencils in Trouble World wide: Shortage of Fish Leaves Birds Starving", New Yok Times, Science Times, June 26, 2001.

POTATO2

US Canada potato dispute (Canadian fungus problem).

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RUSSIA-CHICKEN

US chicken was restirct into Russia over claims of salmonella problems -- or was it? Guy Chazan, "Moscow Lets U.S. Poultry Back In", The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2002.

SABLE

Finoa Macleod, "Desperately Saving Sable", Daily Mail and Guardian Online, 12/7/2001. Zimbabwe sables threatened by lawlessness.

SARDINE-PERU

Peru has brought a challenge to the PTO that challenges a recent ECU claim that only Mediterranean Sardines were worthy of the term". Note din Edward Alden, "The Catfish that caused dogfight", Financial Times, 12/20/2001.

SCALLOP1

US decision on preventing Japanese vessels from operating within the US's 320 km Exclusive Economic Zone (EEG) undermine Japan's thriving fisheries including scallop exports to the US. The HINDU, 09/16/00.

SCALLOP2

The US successfully overturned a French effort to declare that only local French scallops could be sold a "Coquilles St. Jaycees."

SEAHORSE2

CITES regulation proecting seahorse from over harvest (CITTES 12).

SHRIMP

Recent ruling in WTO on US compliance with the SHRIMP and SHRIMP cases (TED case study).

SNAKEHEAD

Anita Huslin, " US moves to Ban Import of Snakeheads", Washington Post, July 23, 2992.

SPACE-TOURISM

Dennis Tito and the future of space tourism.

SWORDFISH-CHILE

"EU Seeks Ruling on Swordfish", Financial Times, November 9, 2000. EU fish farm factories want access to Chilean ports to refuel and get servicing for harmful fishing practices (WTO case).

TOOTHFISH

CITES consideration of protection for Patagonian toothfish.

TUNA3

In April 2000 the US lifted the decade old embargo on imports of yellowfin tuna from Mexico, and the National Marine Fisheries Services reported that Mexico was in compliance with US regulations. This measure has been challenged in court by the Earth Island Institute and other environmental groups. Bridges, International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development. July-August 2000, Year 4, No. 6.

TV-GUIDE

John Lippman. "An Entrepreneur Battles Murdoch to Run TV Guide," Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2002.

US-CAMBODIA

US and Cambodia textile agreement links increasing trade and improving worker rights, Office of the US Trade Representative, www.uster.gov, 1-7-2002.

US-CHILE

US-Chile Free Trade Agreement and environemtn and labor aspects. Paul Blustein, "US, Chile Agree on Free Trade", Washingotn Post, December 12, 2002.

US- JAIL

Economic Activities of US Prisoners (they could be the tele-marketer on the Line!)

US-JORDAN

Marc Lacey, "Bush Seeking to Modify Pact on Trade with Jordan, New York Times, Intentional, April 11, 2001. Environmental and labor safeguards.

US-POTATO

"Sparring Partner: Trade Disputes which Japan may intensify if economy slows", Dallas Morning News, Nov. 23, 2000. Japan requires that Idaho potatoes are fumigated for potato wart disease. The last output of it in the US was in 1935, in areas east of the Mississippi River.

US-SINGAPORE

"US and Singapore to Launch Free Trade Agreement", press release, Office of US Trade Representative, November 16, 2000. What are environmental, labor and human right aspects?

VALENTINE

Shosp in Saudi Arabia are not permitted to sell goods marking Vlentine's Day, restuarants cannot advetsie, cards are illegal and red roses cannot be sold. In India, a hardline part, Shiv Sena, will attempt to halt celebrations on Febrauary 14. BBC News, Middle East, Feb. 13, 2002, "Cooling the Srdour of Valentine's Day"

VISAFEES

Indonesia decided to impose tourist visa on nationals from 47 countries, as new Minister for Tourism argued that it is unfair for Indonesians to pay for visa fees to visit other countries whose nationals can visit Indonesia free.

WINEPACT

Evelyn Ititani, "US, Other Wine Producers in Pact to Boost Exports", LA Times, 12/21/2001. US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Chile. Oppose widespread use of geographic cultural indications.

WOODTHIEVES

Fabian Dawson, "Thieves Chop down BC Trees", The Gazette (Montreal), September 4, 2000. Gangs using helicopters are stealing $100 million worth of wood fro British Colombia.

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