International Trade (CITES/GATT/WTO)

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CITES

• Trade in minke whales - conservation in action. High North Alliance publication for CITES, cop 11
• "The United States recognizes that trade in seal skins is important ... to the Inuit." Statement from the US Delegation at the CITES Plenary. Florida, 1994.
• CITES Would Not Downlist Minkes. The High North News, 1994
• CITES: Norwegian Proposal to downlist Minke Whales. The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, 1997
• US Exhibiton: "Be Kind Don't Kill!" (Photos) Exhibition arranged by the US National Fish and Wildlife Service at the 1994 annual meeting of CITES
• CITES: Norwegian Proposal to Downlist Minke Whale Stocks High North Web News, Oct 9, 1996
• Norwegian Proposal to Downlist Minke Whales at CITES: Negative Comments from IWC Members High North Web News, Dec. 19, 1996
• CITES: Japanese Proposal to Downlist Whale Stocks High North Web News, Dec 16, 1996
• CITES: Secretariat Recommends Downlisting of Whale Stock High North Web News, May 12, 1997
• CITES and the IWC: The Fall of Conservation? The Downlisting of Minke Whales in the North Atlantic. High North Alliance, 1997
• La CITES et la CBI: LA CHUTE DE LA CONSERVATION? Le Déclassement des Petits Rorquals dans l'Atlantique Nord. High North Alliance, 1997
• La CITES y la CBI ¿ EL OCASO DE LA CONSERVACION? La Transferencia de las Poblaciones de Rorcual Menor del Atlántico Norte del Apéndice I al Apéndice II. High North Alliance, 1997
• CITES: DNA Register for Whales - Addendum to the Proposal Submitted by Norway to Downlist Minke Whale Stocks The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, 1997
• "It’s now time to get the CITES listing right!" Norwegian presentantion of minke whale proposal, CITES-meeting, 1997
• Cites sends "clear message" to IWC chairman: Stick to Science The International Harpoon,1997
• IWC lets credibility slip into hands of special interest group The International Harpoon,1997
• CITES and international trade in whale products Jaques Berney

GATT / WTO

• Protecting International marine living resources with trade embargoes: GATT and international reaction to U.S. practices. Ted L. McDorman, Additional Essays on Whales and Man, High North Alliance, 1995
• Environmental trade sanctions and the GATT: An Analysis of the Pelly Amendment on Foreign Environmental Practises. Steve Charnovitz, Additional Essays on Whales and Man, High North Alliance, 1995
• US trade sanctions not GATT consisent. Letter from Bill Archer, chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the US House of Representatives to Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, 1995
• Access to World Markets for Indigenous Products. (Extract) Closing Statement by Ms. Marianne Jensen, Minister, Greenland Home Rule Government, Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Trade and Production,1996
• Demand for Removal of US Marine Mammal Import Ban. Recommendations from Nordic Council of Ministers' Seminar on Indigenous Peoples' Protection and Trade. Copenhagen,996
• Fish labels could confuse shoppers. (on Pilot Whale Campaign's consumer boycott) - The Times, 1995
• Request to Have the US Import Ban on Marine Mammal Products Removed. Letter from the Inuit Circumpolar Conference to the US Embassy in Copenhagen, 1996
• "... the outside world which has forgotten what it solemnly has signed." (Extract) Opening address at NAMMCO's Annual Meeting by Minister of Fisheries, Hans Iversen, the Greenland Home Rule Government, 1995.
• Canadian Expert Says U.S. Ban Illegal Under GATT. High North Alliance, 1995
• US and EU: Beating Each Other with the Moralistic Trade Stick. High North News, 1994
• Canada: Waiting for the WTO to Trap the EU? The High North News, 1994
• A Reversed Position. On tuna/dolphins and trapping. The High North news, 1995
• EU Protecting Indigenous Trade Right. The High North News, 1995
• WWF Denmark Supports Indigenous Trappers. The High North News, 1995
• US Gives Way to Breakfast Table Pressure by Greenland. Sermitsiak, 1996
• THE U.S. MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT. A Report to the High North Alliance by Richard M. Parsons Atty., regarding the possibility of exemptions from import ban, February 11, 1996
• The US does not sanction Canadian whaling outside IWC. US President Clinton, Feb. 11, 1997
• Resolving the Animal Welfare and Legal Issues of the EU Fur Import Prohibition; View of Canada. James Stone, Mission of Canada to the EU, 1997
• Trade Barriers and The Indigenous Peoples' Production. Finn Lynge, Greenland's representative in the EU, 1996.
• The GATT Consistency of the U.S. Import Embargo on Harp-Seal Fur Coats from Greenland. Report by Associate Professor Ted L. McDorman August, 1995. Published by High North Alliance, Nov. 1997.
• ...up the wrong tree. Down To Earth, 1996.
• Whales, the U.S. Pelly Amendment and international trade law Ted McDorman