Additional Archival Information on WTO
By imposing a strongly enforced regime of new corporate rights and limits on government regulation, the World Trade Organization (WTO) threatens sovereignty, democracy, worker’s rights and environmental protections. A worldwide network of organizations, activists and social movements are committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interest of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of the people and the environment. Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch is a founding member of the global coalition Our World Is Not for Sale (OWINFS).
- Key findings from Whose Trade Organization? by Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall
- Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) Global Network
Get Informed | Reports and Memos | Press Room | Congress Speaks Out
Get Informed
- WTO, Agriculture and Food Safety
- WTO, the Environment, Health and Safety
- WTO threatens Democracy
- WTO and Services
- WTO Attacks on Consumer Safeguards
- WTO Undermines Financial Regulation
- “Buy America” Under Attack from Corporate Offshorers
Public Citizen Factsheets, Reports & Memos
- For Richer or Poorer: Facts and Fiction about Trade and Economic Gains in the Developed World and Economic Results of the WTO in the U.S. (March 10, 2010)
- Introduction to Whose Trade Organization?: It’s Not About Trade (March 5, 2009)
- Reporters’ Memo: Buy America Brouhaha: What are the EU and Canada Hollering About? Their WTO Procurement Exceptions Are (Wisely) Much Broader than the U.S. Stimulus Proposal (February 5, 2009)
- Presidential Candidates’ Key Proposals on Health Care and Climate Will Require WTO Modifications (February 28, 2008)
- Reporters Memo: Next Week’s Bizarre WTO Mini Ministerial (July 17, 2008)
- Sunset of Fast Track Could Avoid Increase in World Poverty (February 13, 2007)
- Documenting the Evidence of the Failed NAFTA-WTO “Trade” Model (October 4, 2006)
- The WTO’s Empty Hong Kong “Development Package”: How the WTO’s 97% Duty-Free Proposal Could Leave Poor Countries Worse Off (June 1, 2006
- Final Hong Kong Ministerial Text: Annotated by GTW Director Lori Wallach (May 30, 2006)
- Public Citizen’s Pocket Trade Lawyer: The Alphabet Soup of Globalization (February 1, 2006)
- What You Need to Know About the WTO Before the Hong Kong Ministerial (December 13, 2005)
- Big Box Backlash: The Stealth Campaign at the WTO to Preempt Local Control over Land Use (December 12, 2005)
- GTW Director Lori Wallach Testifies on GATS in front of the European Union Parliament Committee on International Trade (October 11, 2005)
- GTW Director Lori Wallach Testifies on U.S. Membership in the WTO for the House Ways and Means Committee (May 17, 2005)
- Billions in Sanctions Authorized for March 1 Unless Congress Implements WTO-Ordered Change to U.S. Tax Policy; Retaliation Looms in Other WTO Rulings Against U.S. Laws (March 2, 2004)
- Summarized Key Findings from Who’s Trade Organization (September 11, 2003)
- A Citizen’s Guide to the World Trade Organization: Everything You Need to Know to Fight for Fair Trade. View pamphlet here (July 1, 1999)
Public Citizen Press Releases & Statements
- Reporters’ Memo: WTO’s Legitimacy So Diminished that Simply Agreeing on Anything Is Touted as Success, Even as Doha Round WTO Expansion Agenda Remains Deadlocked for More Than a Decade (December 6, 2013)
- Statement of Lori Wallach: WTO’s Legitimacy So Weak that Ability to Agree on Anything Is Touted as Success (December 6, 2013)
- Public Citizen Launches Trade Data Center (October 1, 2010)
- On Eve of G-20 Summit, Canadian Government Bashes Others for Trade Distortions While Poised to OK Huge Subsidy for Asbestos Exports (June 24, 2010)
- President Obama Needs to Replace Doha Round Agenda with WTO Turnaround Plan (December 2, 2009)
- Statement by GTW Director Lori Wallach Upon the Conclusion of the Hong Kong Ministerial (December 19, 2005)
- View more articles and press releases: Press Room Archives
Members of Congress & Civil Society Organizations Speak Out
- OWINFS Opposes Convening Mini-Ministerial on WTO Subjects at WEF in Davis (January 22, 2014)
- OWINFS Statement: United States Fails to Completely Block New Flexibilities for Food Security in Bali WTO Talks (December 7, 2013)
- OWINFS: Global Civil Society Calls for a Permanent solution to G33 Food Security Proposal in WTO (November 20, 2013)
- OWINFS Statement: WTO Turnaround 2013: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Development First (October 2013)
- OWINFS Statement: WTO Turnaround: Food, Jobs and Sustainable Development First – Call to Action! (December 17, 2011)
- OWINFS: Another Doha Round Deadline Failure: Why Yesterday’s Solution to Yesterday’s Agenda is No Longer in Demand in Today’s Global Economy (April 21, 2011)
- Letter from 28 Civil Society Groups to Obama on the April 2009 G20 Summit (March 30, 2009)
- Letter from the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee urging President Bush to not accept a WTO deal unfriendly to U.S. farmers and workers (December 2, 2008)
- Letter from U.S. Senators to President Bush: You Have No Authority to Make a Doha Round Deal (July 23, 2008)
- Letter from 243 Civil Society Groups in 90 Developing Countries to U.S. Congress Opposing New Fast Track Authority for President Bush to Push WTO Escalation via the Doha Round (April 19, 2007)
- New Coalition of 71 U.S.-based Civil Society Groups Launch New Congressional Effort Against Doha Round’s WTO Expansion (June 28, 2006)
- Letter from 125 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Calling on the WTO to Cancel Exclusive “Mini-Ministerial” (April 18, 2006)
- Council of Canadians and the Polaris Institute: Making the Links: A People’s Guide to the WTO and the FTAA (August 7, 2003)
- Focus on the Global South: Power Politics in the WTO (July 15, 2003)
Other Resources
- Article by Lori Wallach and Deborah James: Why the WTO Doha Round Talks Collapsed: and a Path Forward (August 14, 2006)
- Inside U.S. Trade: Study Cited as Proof of Small Developing Country Gains in WTO (November 25, 2005)