From: anne@tobaccodocuments.org
Date: Tue, 08/02/05
Anne LandmanPosting Date: Thursday, July 28, 2005
Proposal Strategy Meeting for WTO
Company/Source Collection: British American Tobacco
Document Date: 19990000 est. (immediately adjacent Bates-numbered documents
before and after are dated c. May 1999)
Length: 1 page
Bates No. 321309026
URL of this posting (with document
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This one-page document is a proposal to convene a meeting among
business-friendly groups to discuss the "worrying" implications of efforts by
environmentalists to "green the GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade]."
(The GATT was an international trade agreement first signed in 1947. 110
countries have now signed the GATT. The original text of the GATT contained no
mention of environmental concerns and environmental policy groups want to amend
the GATT to include more consideration of environmental concerns. You can read
more about the GATT at http://www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/TRADE/gatt.html and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATT)
The proposal makes it clear that businesses consider efforts to make the GATT
more environmentally-friendly (or "green") constitute a threat. The writer
states, "We aim to combat this green agenda..."
Some of the ideas proposed for "combating the green agenda" include lobbying
politicians and organizing speaker tours in lesser developed countries, writing
letters-to-the-editor and op-ed pieces, and other typical, time-worn corporate
strategies. The most interesting proposal, however, is for corporate and
business interests form their own non-governmental organization, or NGO. The
name the writer proposed for this organization?
"The Global Organisation for Development - GOD"
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Quote:
Proposed Strategy Meeting for WTO
The attempt by environmental campaigners, both in government and outside, to
green the GATT has worrying implications for trade. Factions within the EE and
the USA have promoted the notion that individual countries should be able to
restrict imports of goods made with technologies deemed to be environmentally
damaging. The Basle Convention of Waste and other UN Treaties have furthered
this agenda.
Fred Smith, Julian Morris, Ray Evans, Roger Bate and Francois-Xavier Perroud
met in early May to discuss how to challenge the green agenda, and especially
how to present our arguments in developing countries. We aim to combat this
green agenda (probably via papers, op-eds, meetings with LDC Trade officials,
conferences and speaker tours) and will meet in Washington DC on 23rd/24th June
1999 to devise our overall strategy and tactics in the coming years.
Those to attend include:
Jonathan Adler, CEI, USA
Roger Bate, IEA, UK
Ray Evans, Western Mining, Australia
Jack Kemp, USA
Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival Committee, USA
Deepak Lal, UCLA/UCL, UK
Noel Malcolm, UK
Julian Morris, IEA, UK
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, USA
Alan Oxley, APEC Study Centre, Australia
Francois-Xavier-Perroud, Nestle, Switzerland
Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell University, USA
Austin Ruse, Catholic Family and Human Rights, USA
Parth Shah, Center for Civil Society, India
Jim Sheehan, CEI, USA
Fran Smith, Consumer Alert, USA
Fred Smith, CEI, USA
Alan Tonelson, US Business and Industry Council, USA
An Agenda for this meeting will be written over the next week or so and
circulated to key participants. What should it include?
Topics of Op-eds/Papers
Establishment of an International NGO - The Global Organisation for
Development - GOD
Lobbying of politicians in developing countries
Speaker tours to LDCs
Conferences - where, London, Washington, New Delhi, Cape Town? What keynote
speakers, conference organisers and public affairs allies,
Funding - Individuals, Corporations, Foundations
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Company
British American Tobacco
Author
Unknown
Recipient
Unknown
Region
United Kingdom
Type
Proposal
Named Person
Smith, Fred | Bate, Roger | Lal, Deepak | Morris, Julian | Evans, Ray |
Adler, Jonathan | Kemp, Jack | Malcolm, Noel | Oxley, Alan | Ruse, Austin |
Shah, Partha | Sheehan, Jim | Tonelson, Alan
Named Organization
UCLA | Cornell University | WTO | CEI | IEA | Nestle SA
Litigation
BATCo USDOJ v. Philip Morris
Subject
Exports and Imports
Global trade
Policy
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