The lamb import dispute revisited: Yoichiro Sato examines the US decision to end its trade dispute with Australia and New Zealand by accepting the WTO ruling on the lamb import tariff issue.
On 31 August 2001 the United States announced that as from the following 15 November it would lift the tariff rate quota imposed on lamb. imports from Australia and New Zealand. The announcement came long after the final May 2001 WTO ruling on the US appeal, which favoured Australia...

Food prices turn up heat in kitchen.
NEW DELHI: Surging food prices have left Delhiites gasping in recent months. Prices of key vegetables like onion and potatoes have doubled over the past year, tomatoes cost almost five times of what they did last October and other edibles are also much costlier than they used to be....

Some awesome news: a Christmas play.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] MIRIAM: Shalom. Peace be with you. My name is Miriam, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah. I'm 13 years old. My parents are shepherds. I am their eldest child, and this is my brother-- MOSES: (interrupting) Hi. How's it goin'? MIRIAM: This...

Bawarias' gang busted, 9 held.
LUCKNOW: A gang of Bawaria was busted with the arrest of nine men. The gang had recently killed four shepherds in Unnao and taken away 300 sheeps. The men have confessed to their involvement in several robberies-cum-murders. Some country-made weapons and vehicles used by the gang have been recovered....

Health scare: It's now getting fishy.
Byline: Vandana Soni Bakshi Mutton's not the winner in the bird flu scare as health conscious junta settles for fish instead. Be a vegetarian, achcha hai, specially in the times of bird flu. But not so for our Lucknowites, who might have since gone easy...

Chicken sales dip 75% in Maharashtra.
MUMBAI: Butter chicken is no longer the dish of choice at the hundreds of restaurants and 'dhabas' spread over Maharashtra. Sale of broiler chicken has fallen by 50per cent to 75per cent in Mumbai, as many meat-eaters eschewed chicken, over the past few days. Surprisingly, chicken prices...

Chicken out, fish prices soar.
NEW DELHI: Planning to make amends for the lack of butter chicken with some yummy fish curry? Well, digest this if you can: Fish prices in the wholesale market have shot up by 30-40 per cent and it may go higher if the bird flu scare continues. The prices...

Shipboard refrigeration and the beginnings of the frozen meat trade.
The single event that led directly to the establishment of an international trade in frozen meat was the voyage in 1879-1880 of the sailing ship Strathleven carrying a shipment of forty tons of frozen beef, lamb and mutton from Sydney and Melbourne to London. The shipment quickly sold on...

Work pays off at 4-H Youth Fair.
Byline: GARRET JAROS The Register-Guard Watch your step - this ain't no flip-flop affair. Sarah Phillips is once again at the business end of a broom, locked in an endless struggle to keep the aisles of the Lane County 4-H Youth Fair free of road...

THE UNITED STATES--NEW ZEALAND LAMB DISPUTE.
Yoichiro Sato provides a political interpretation of a complex trade problem which arose in 1998-99. The temporary tariff on lamb imports from New Zealand and Australia imposed by the United States in July 1999 has angered New Zealand farmers, the public and free trade advocates in general....