Title: Trade Observatory

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

URL: http://www.wtowatch.org/

Date Checked: 4/24/2008      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/24/2008

Topics: Agriculture Law; Economics; Environmental Law; International Trade

Other keywords: World Trade Organization; World Bank; NAFTA; North American Free Trade Agreement; Free trade; International Monetary Fund; Development

Contents: Formerly known as WTO Watch, Trade Observatory is a project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and is part of a cluster of sites including “Ag Observatory,” "Health Observatory" and "Community Forestry Resource Center." Trade Observatory "[h]as been documenting the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and other international trade agreements and institutions" and "[w]orking toward fairer trade systems and alternative approaches to globalization." The site offers an extensive news feed, which offers both press releases and links to coverage, with an emphasis on the World Trade Organization, North American Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Area of the Americas, International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development activities. The news feed is syndicated via RSS. There is an extensive “Library” of original documents collected and submitted by multiple partner organizations. This section is browseable by topic or language (English, Spanish, French, and German), and is full-text searchable. Most documents are available in PDF.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler/J.P. Cusker