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18 Jun 2008, 12:14 am
Lautenberg (D - NJ) called on the Bush Administration to take action in the World Trade Organization (WTO) against eight Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by ordering United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Susan Schwab to file a complaint with the WTO. [read post]
30 May 2008, 3:16 am
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, which consists of 12 sovereign nations, including Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Ayatollah Khameini's Iran. [read post]
20 May 2008, 4:25 pm
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives Tuesday voted 324-84 [roll call] to pass a bill [HR 6074 materials] which would subject members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) [official website] to US antitrust [JURIST news archive] law. [read post]
6 May 2008, 11:21 am
Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation to force action against the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for its anti-competitive practices and illegal export quotas on oil, which ultimately lead to higher gas prices here at home. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 5:21 am
Yes, actually.For years, Congress has been clamoring for the United States to bring a dispute in the World Trade Organization against some of the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 7:50 am
One of the most raucous political fights of 2006 involved the takeover of the British ports operator P&O by DP World, which if fully effectuated would have ceded the control over six U.S. ports to a firm owned by the government of Dubai.[1] A principle objection to the deal was that it in effect would have rendered control of U.S. commerce and a main facet of national security to a government of Middle Eastern country that potentially had links to international… [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 4:15 am
At a Tuesday meeting [press release] of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) [organization website], [read post]
23 May 2007, 11:03 am
On Tuesday, the House passed the No Oil Producing and Exporting Act of 2007, which would allow the Department of Justice to sue members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in U.S. court. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 8:50 am
The reasoning behind this criticism is that the new U.N. resolution, which most notably places a ban on arms trade with Iran and freezes some the country's overseas bank accounts, does not touch the oil trade, which is where much of Iran's wealth comes from, but is also where minor shock waves can turn into major tremors in the world economy. [2] Thus, as long as Iran has the ability to bring about a major shock to the price of oil and the potential catastrophic effects… [read post]
